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1774 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1774th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 774th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1774 ...
September 1, 1774: Massachusetts: British soldiers remove military supplies [1] Storming of Fort William and Mary* December 14, 1774: New Hampshire: American insurgents seize powder and shot after brief skirmish. [2] Battles of Lexington and Concord: April 19, 1775: Massachusetts
The concise illustrated history of the American Revolution (1972) for secondary schools online 136pp; Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, and Richard Alan Ryerson, eds. The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political, Social, and Military History (5 vol. 2006) George, Lynn. A Timeline of the American Revolution (2002) 24pp; for middle ...
1768–1774: Russo-Turkish War. 1768: Imperial Leather commissioned by Count Orlov. 1769: Spanish missionaries establish the first of 21 missions in California. 1769–1770: James Cook explores and maps New Zealand and Australia. 1769–1773: The Bengal famine of 1770 kills one-third of the Bengal population.
29 January – Olinthus Gregory, mathematician (died 1841) 24 February – Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (died 1850) 16 March – Captain Matthew Flinders, explorer (died 1814)
The history of the United States from 1776 to 1789 was marked by the nation's transition from the American Revolutionary War to the establishment of a novel constitutional order. As a result of the American Revolution , the thirteen British colonies emerged as a newly independent nation, the United States of America , between 1776 and 1789.
1774 – March: Boston Port Act passed. [3] May: Massachusetts Government Act passed. June: Quartering Act passed. [3] September–October: First Continental Congress meets in Philadelphia. [3] 1775 – March: "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech. [3] March–April: Parliament passes the Restraining Acts. April: Battles of Lexington and ...
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