The movement was particularly dominated by François Quesnay ( 1694 – 1774 ) and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot ( 1727 – 1781 ).

* 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.

* 1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer ( d. 1843 )

* 1714 – Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick ( d. 1774 )

* 1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint ( d. 1821 )

* Johnny Appleseed John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

* 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist ( d. 1862 )

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

* Guillaume du Tillot ( 1711 – 1774 ), politician

** Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

** Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1792 )

** Louis IV ( 1715 – 1774 )

** Louis V ( 1774 – 1792 )

* Louis XV ( 1715 – 1774 )

* Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1793 )

* Éléments de physiologie ( 1773 – 1774 )

* 1774 – Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist ( b. 1720 )

In 1819 Brewster undertook further editorial work by establishing, in conjunction with Robert Jameson ( 1774 – 1854 ), the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal, which took the place of the Edinburgh magazine.

* Mary Parker Jr ( 1774 – 1859 )

* 1722 – Tiphaigne de la Roche, French writer ( d. 1774 )

* 1774 – Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge ( d. 1850 )

* 1710 – King Louis XV of France ( d. 1774 )

* 1774 – Hans Järta, Swedish political activist ( d. 1847 )

As a result of economic pressures stemming from the upcoming American War of Independence, Britain unilaterally chose to withdraw from many overseas settlements in 1774.

* 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

* 1774 – William Bainbridge, American commodore ( d. 1833 )

Anticipating the arrangement of the British Commonwealth, by 1774 American writers such as Samuel Adams, James Wilson, and Thomas Jefferson were arguing that Parliament was the legislature of Great Britain only, and that the colonies, which had their own legislatures, were connected to the rest of the empire only through their allegiance to the Crown.

* October 11 – Meriwether Lewis, American explorer ( suicide ) ( b. 1774 )

* March 18 – Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer ( b. 1774 )

The first professional performances of King Lear in North America are likely to have been those of the Hallam Company ( later the American Company ) which arrived in Virginia in 1752 and who counted the play among their repertoire by the time of their departure for Jamaica in 1774.

In 1774, the Quebec Act guaranteed French settlers as British subjects rights to French law, the Roman Catholic faith, and the French language, to appease them at a moment when the English-speaking colonies to the south were on the verge of revolting in the American Revolutionary War.

According to tradition, Chief Logan of the Mingo tribe delivered a passionate speech at a peace-treaty meeting under this elm in 1774, said to be the most famous speech ever given by a Native American.

Among the many notable former residents of Lewes is Thomas Paine ( 1737 – 1809 ), who was employed as an excise officer in the town for a time from 1768 to 1774 when he emigrated to the American colonies.

According to tradition, Chief Logan of the Mingo tribe delivered a passionate speech at a peace-treaty meeting under this elm in 1774, said to be the most famous speech ever given by a Native American.

Part of Southwick, Massachusetts known as " the Notch " seceded from Massachusetts in 1774, just before the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

However, the town was later renamed Ludlow and incorporated as a separate entity in 1774, just before the breakout of the American Revolution.

* Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced the apple to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

He took part in public affairs at the beginning of the American Revolution, he was a member of the Massachusetts General Court ( Legislature ) from 1771 until 1775, a delegate to the Provincial congress from 1774 until 1775, and a member of the Board of War from 1778 until its dissolution in 1781.

Iroquois land until a 1768 treaty, Chester County native and American Revolutionary War figure William Montgomery purchased a plot of land in 1774 and established a trading post called Montgomery's Landing.

Sold to John Witherspoon and others, the southern half of town was purchased in 1773 by two agents for the Scotch American Company of Farmers from Renfrew and Lanark, Scotland, whose members began settlement in 1774.

He served as Foreign Minister from 1774 during the reign of Louis XVI, notably during the American War of Independence.

Originally dubbed Fort Fincastle in 1774, the fort was later renamed Fort Henry in honor of Virginia's American governor, Patrick Henry.

Jonathan Chapman ( September 26, 1774 – March 18, 1845 ), also known as Johnny Appleseed, was an American pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

His revenge for the killing of family members by American frontiersmen helped spark the 1774 conflict known as Dunmore's War.

** Speech on American Taxation, April 19, 1774