The earliest use of the phrase is a quote from the Westminster Magazine of 1774: " He had no inclination for a Broomstick-marriage ", the person in question simply stating that he did not want to go through a ceremony that had no legal validity, it having been suggested to him that he would pretend to be marrying by having a French sexton read the marriage service to him and his young bride.

The earliest expedition recorded along the Pacific Northwest coast, however, was led by Spaniard Juan José Pérez Hernández aboard the sloop Santiago in 1774.

One of the earliest comprehensive list was Charles Messier's 1774 Messier catalog, which included 103 " nebulae " and other faint fuzzy objects he considered a nuisance since they could be mistaken for comets, the objects he was actually searching for.

Bowler acknowledges his argument that apes might represent the earliest form of humanity ( Monboddo 1774 ), but continues:

In 1776 appeared his first work on reform in parliament, which, with the exception of Earl Stanhope's pamphlets ( 1774 ), appears to have been the earliest publication on the subject.

* 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.

In 1774, in the Burmese city of Rangoon, the Burmese King Hsinbyushin ( known in Thai as " King Mangra ") decided to organize a seven-day, seven-night religious festival in honor of Buddha's relics.

The first European known to have sighted the island was Captain James Cook, in 1774, on his second voyage to the South Pacific on HMS Resolution.

Under this guise, he led what came to be known as Pugachev's Rebellion in 1774, ultimately crushed by Catherine's forces.

His son Anton Faber took over in 1774 and the company came to be known as the A. W.

The conflict sparked the beginning of what was known as Dunmore's War ( 1773 – 1774 ).

* 1774: John Day becomes the first person known to have died in a submarine accident while testing a " diving chamber " in Plymouth Sound.

In addition to his joint recognition for the discovery of oxygen, Scheele is argued to have been the first to discover other chemical elements such as barium ( 1774 ), manganese ( 1774 ), molybdenum ( 1778 ), and tungsten ( 1781 ), as well as several chemical compounds, including citric acid, lactic acid, glycerol, hydrogen cyanide ( also known, in aqueous solution, as prussic acid ), hydrogen fluoride, and hydrogen sulfide.

A settlement called La Habitación, also known as Rancho San Luis or San Luisito, was established north of the river at the site of present-day Hidalgo, in 1774.

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

By 1774, it was known as Hardscrabble because the rocky soil made planting difficult.

First known as Twitchell's Mills, a combination sawmill and gristmill was built here in 1774.

It was known locally as Limerick before being incorporated as Stoddard in 1774, in honor of Colonel Stoddard.

In 1774 the Rees family hired James Barry ( or Jimmy Berry ) to manage the inn, which henceforth became known as " Berry's Tavern ".

" In verse, Dwight wrote an ambitious epic in eleven books, The Conquest of Canaan, finished in 1774 but not published until 1785, a somewhat ponderous and solemn satire, The Triumph of Infidelity ( 1788 ), directed against David Hume, Voltaire and others ; Greenfield Hill ( 1794 ), the suggestion for which seems to have been derived from John Denham's Coopers Hill ; and a number of minor poems and hymns, the best known of which is that beginning " I love thy kingdom, Lord ".

During Dunmore's War of 1774 a fort, known as New Garden Fort, was established to protect the settlers from Indian raids.

The Committees of Correspondence used to coordinate activities were revived between 1772 and 1774 in response to a variety of controversial and unpopular affairs, and the colonies that met at the 1774 First Continental Congress established a non-importation agreement known as the Continental Association in response to Parliamentary passage of the Intolerable Acts.

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.

Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB MP FRS ( 29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774 ), also known as Clive of India, was a British officer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal.

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

Georgiana Carolina Fox, 1st Baroness Holland, of Holland ( 27 March 1723 – 24 July 1774 ), known as Lady Caroline Lennox before 1744 and as Lady Caroline Fox from 1744 to 1762, was the eldest of the Lennox Sisters, immortalised in Stella Tillyard's book Aristocrats, and the television series based on it.

His plays, of which Merope ( 1774 ), an adaptation in blank verse of the tragedies of Maffei and Voltaire, and Medea ( 1775 ), a melodrama, are best known, were mostly based on French originals and had considerable influence in counteracting the formlessness and irregularity of the Sturm und Drang drama.

Lord Mahon, later Earl of Stanhope, married Lady Hester Pitt, daughter of William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, whose seat was situated in Fawkes's parish of Hayes, on 19 December 1774, and some lines addressed to the bridegroom by Fawkes on this occasion are printed in the Chatham Correspondence, iv.

He printed the Journals of the House of Commons from 1774 till his death.

Other committees on which he served included the committee of papers, which chose the papers for publication in the Philosophical Transactions, and the committees for the transit of Venus ( 1769 ), for the gravitational attraction of mountains ( 1774 ), and for the scientific instructions for Constantine Phipps ’ s expedition ( 1773 ) in search of the North Pole and the Northwest Passage.

The Colbert-LeGendre anecdote was relayed in George Whatley's 1774 Principles of Trade ( co-authored with Benjamin Franklin )-which may be the first appearance of the phrase in an English language publication.

In 1834 the Supreme Court ruled in Wheaton v. Peters ( a case similar to the 1774 case of Donaldson v Beckett in Britain ) that although the author of an unpublished work had a common law right to control the first publication of that work, the author did not have a common law right to control reproduction following the first publication of the work.

In 1834 the Supreme Court ruled in Wheaton v. Peters, a case similar to the British Donaldson v Beckett of 1774, that although the author of an unpublished work had a common law right to control the first publication of that work, the author did not have a common law right to control reproduction following the first publication of the work.

In 1903 Congress authorized the publication of A Biographical Congressional Directory, 1774 to 1903.

In 1834 the Supreme Court ruled in Wheaton v. Peters, a case similar to the British Donaldson v Beckett of 1774, that although the author of an unpublished work had a common law right to control the first publication of that work, the author did not have a common law right to control reproduction following the first publication of the work.

His brother John Ballantyne ( 1774 – 1821 ) was also with the publishing firm, which is noted for the publication of the Novelist's Library ( 1820 ), and many works edited or written by Scott.

In 1834 the Supreme Court ruled in Wheaton v. Peters, a case similar to the British Donaldson v Beckett of 1774, that although the author of an unpublished work had a common law right to control the first publication of that work, the author did not have a common law right to control reproduction following the first publication of the work.

In September 1774, the First Continental Congress brought together delegates from the colonies in Philadelphia, followed by the Second Continental Congress, which met from May 1775 to March 1781.

Johnson, Vermont and a part of neighboring Cambridge, Vermont were together known as King's College Tract being created by a royal charter of British King George III in 1774.

He helped to bring the Theatre Royal to Birmingham in 1774 and together with Ash was involved in planning and building a hospital that was not completed until 1779.

The town of Johnson, and a part of neighboring Cambridge, Vermont together once made up the King's College Tract, a land grant chartered by King George III in 1774 for the eventual expansion of King's College in New York, today's Columbia University.

By 1774 the Company was close to collapse due in part to contractual payments to the British government of £ 400, 000 per year, together with war and famine in India, and economic weakness in European markets.

Between 1772 and 1774, Rev Dr Edward Pickard gathered together dissenting ministers in order that the terms of the Toleration Act for dissenting clergy could be modified.

This income, however, together with his well-salaried sinecure, and his place as prime serjeant, he surrendered in 1774, to become provost of Trinity College, although the statute requiring the provost to be in holy orders had to be dispensed with in his favour.

Friedrich Gottlob Koenig ( April 17, 1774 in Eisleben – January 17, 1833 ) was a German inventor best known for his high-speed printing press, which he built together with watchmaker Andreas Friedrich Bauer.

Delegates from twelve colonies, all of the Thirteen Colonies except for Georgia, came together for the First Continental Congress in 1774.