What is 1774?
{{Year nav|1774}} {{Year in various calendars|1774}} {{Year article header|1774}} == Events == * [[January 21]] – [[Mustafa III]], [[List of Ottoman Sultans|Sultan]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] dies and is succeeded by his brother [[Abd-ul-Hamid I]]. * [[May 10]] – [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]] becomes King of [[France]]. * [[June 2]] – [[Intolerable Acts]]: The [[Quartering Act]], requiring [[Colonial America|American colonists]] to let [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] soldiers into their homes, is reenacted. * [[June 11]] – Jews in Algier escape the attack of the Spanish army. * [[July 21]] – [[Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774]]: [[Russia]] and the [[Ottoman Empire]] sign the [[Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji]] ending six years of [[war]]. The treaty does give [[Russia]] the right to intervene in [[Ottoman]] politics to protect its [[Christian]] subjects. * [[September 5]] – First [[Continental Congress]] assembles in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]. * The British pass the [[Quebec Act]] setting out rules of governance for the colony of [[Quebec]] in British [[North America]]. * The Sardinian pika becomes extinct. == Births == * [[September 26]] – [[Johnny Appleseed]] [[Category:1774| ]]