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 )

They married in 1774, lived at the northeast corner of 3rd and Pine Streets in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and had four children, Sarah, Thomas, Sophia, and Maria.

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.

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.

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.

* Thomas Fitch ( c. 1700 – 1774 ), from Norwalk, was a governor of the Colony of Connecticut.

Thomas Darling ( 1720 – 1789 ), a tutor at Yale College and later an entrepreneur in New Haven, moved to town in 1774.

On February 22, 1774, the town was incorporated by Governor John Wentworth as Packersfield, after a major proprietor, Thomas Packer, the sheriff at Portsmouth.

The year 1774 found the following persons settled in the neighborhood of Clarksburg, Daniel Davisson, Thomas Nutter, Samuel Cottrill, Sotha Hickman, Samuel Beard, Andrew Cottrill, Obadiah Davisson, John Nutter, Matthew Nutter and Amaziah Davisson.

First published in six volumes by Thomas Hearne in 1715, with revised editions appearing in 1770 and 1774.

The Bard, 1774, by Thomas Jones ( artist ) | Thomas Jones ( 1742 – 1803 )

In 1774, Siddons won her first success as Belvidera in Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved.

He was replaced as governor in May 1774 by General Thomas Gage, and went into exile in England, where he advised the government on how to deal with the Americans.

With his military experience and relative youth ( Massachusetts governor Thomas Hutchinson was then 62 years old and unpopular, and the equally unpopular lieutenant governor ( Andrew Oliver ), a hated Tory, was 67 in 1773 and died in March 1774 ), Gage, a popular figure on both sides of the Atlantic, was deemed the best man to handle the brewing crisis and enforce the Parliamentary acts.

* Thomas Pakenham, 3rd Baron Longford ( 1774 – 1835 ) ( succeeded his grandmother as Earl of Longford in 1794 )

* Thomas Pakenham, 2nd Earl of Longford ( 1774 – 1835 )

Thomas moved to Great Barrington in 1774, where he settled on a small piece of land with a house on it on the Housatonic River.

Grove was born in Clapham, the eighth of the eleven children of Thomas Grove ( 1774 – 1852 ), fishmonger and venison dealer, and his wife, Mary ( 1784 – 1856 ), née Blades.

The town was incorporated on June 17, 1774, as Hutchinson after Thomas Hutchinson, colonial governor of Massachusetts.

* Thomas P. Jones ( 1774 – 1848 ), English engineer and publisher

Although he had from an early period championed the individuality of cultures-for example, in his This Too a Philosophy of History for the Formation of Humanity ( 1774 ), he also championed the individuality of persons within a culture ; for example, in his On Thomas Abbt's Writings ( 1768 ) and On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul ( 1778 ).

The possession of this property brought about frequent disputes with an adjoining landowner, Thomas de Grey, and, after many actions in the courts, Thomas de Grey's friends endeavoured to obtain, by a bill forced through the houses of parliament, the privileges which the law had not assigned to him ( February 1774 ).

British General Thomas Gage arrived in Boston, a city with a history of violent protests against British policies, on May 13, 1774.