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

* 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 )

However, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act, which restored the French civil law for matters of private law ( e. g., contracts, property, successions ), while keeping the English common law as the basis for public law in the colony, notably the criminal law.

The proclamation, which established an appointed colonial government, was the de facto constitution of Quebec until 1774, when the British parliament passed the Quebec Act, which expanded the province's boundaries to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, which was one of the grievances listed in the United States Declaration of Independence.

While the island has probably been sighted by navigators since at least the 16th century, it takes its name from the British ship Europa, which visited it in December 1774.

* 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

* 1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.

* 1774 – The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.

The British first sighted New Caledonia on 4 September 1774, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.

In 1774, the Quebec Act restored the land east of the Mississippi River and north of the Ohio River to Quebec, appeasing the French-speaking British subjects, but angering the Thirteen Colonies.

In 1774, Guy Carleton obtained from the British Government the Quebec Act, which gave Canadiens most of the territory they held before 1763 ; the right of religion ; and their right of language and culture.

Category: British MPs 1774 – 1780

Following the passage of the Intolerable Acts by the British Parliament in 1774, Jefferson wrote a set of resolutions against the acts.

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.

In England the first Unitarian Church was established in 1774 on Essex Street, London, where today's British Unitarian headquarters are still located.

* August 3 – Edward Baines, British newspaperman and politician ( b. 1774 )

* June 16 – William Lawson, British explorer of New South Wales ( b. 1774 )

* September 27 – Edward Charles Howard, British chemist and chemical engineer ( b. 1774 )

* September 29 – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general and statesman ( d. 1774 )

Thomas Jefferson wrote in his 1774 A Summary View of the Rights of British America that " a free people their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Convened in response to the Intolerable Acts passed by the British Parliament in 1774, the delegates organized an economic boycott of Great Britain in protest and petitioned the King for a redress of grievances.

In a footnote to a poem titled Speech to the Western Indians, ( published 1813 ) Arent DePeyster, British commandant at Fort Michilimackinac from 1774 to 1779, noted that " Baptist Point de Saible " was " handsome ", " well educated ", and " settled in Eschecagou ".

Failing to receive help from Tibet, the Druk Desi signed a Treaty of Peace with the British East India Company on April 25, 1774.

In a speech to the electorate at Bristol in 1774, Edmund Burke described the British Parliament as a " deliberative assembly ," and the expression became the basic term for a body of persons meeting to discuss and determine common action.

Ram Mohun Roy, Ram Mohun also spelled Rammohun, Rammohan, or Ram Mohan (; 14 August 1774 – 27 September 1833 ), was an Indian religious, social, and educational reformer who challenged traditional Hindu culture and indicated the lines of progress for Indian society under British rule.