He was the third son of seven children: Benvenida ( 1752 – 1784, Aaron ( 1754 – 1759 ), Isaac ( 1758 -), Sarah ( 1760 -), Raphael ( 1772 -) and Miriam ( 1774 -).

In 1774 his brother-in-law, Aaron Burr, left his ministerial studies with the Reverend Joseph Bellamy for the ministry and moved to Litchfield to study the law with Reeve.

* Aaron Burr, Jr., 1774, U. S. Vice President, U. S. Senator

* 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.

The synthesis and characterization of elemental chlorine occurred in 1774 by Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who called it " dephlogisticated muriatic acid air ," having thought he synthesized the oxide obtained from the hydrochloric acid.

Louis XIV died in 1715 and was succeeded by his five-year-old great grandson who reigned as Louis XV until his death in 1774.

His father Spence Monroe ( 1727 – 1774 ) was a moderately prosperous planter who also practiced carpentry.

* Hester Stanhope, Viscountess Mahon ( 19 October 1755-20 July 1780 ), who married Viscount Mahon, later the 3rd Earl Stanhope, on 19 December 1774 ; three children, including the traveler and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope.

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.

While this law reduced the number of people who could be on the city council, the introduction of a secret ballot procedure in 1764 and measures against vote-buying in 1774 allowed more and more non-patrician burghers to join the council.

In the years 1770 till 1790 at least six people who had contact with a cow had tested independently the possibility of using the cowpox vaccine as an immunization for smallpox in humans for the first time ; among them the English farmer Benjamin Jesty, in Dorset, in 1774 and the German teacher Peter Plett in 1791.

Louis XV ( 15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774 ) was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death.

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 the 18th century, before the French Revolution ( 1789 – 99 ), in the French feudal order, the masculine and feminine terms bourgeois and bourgeoise identified the rich men and women who were members of the urban and rural Third Estate — the common people of the French realm, who violently deposed the absolute monarchy of the Bourbon King Louis XVI ( r. 1774 – 91 ), his clergy, and his aristocrats.

* Geraud Duroc ( 1774 – 1813 ), general who fought with Napoleon.

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.

Jean-Baptiste Biot ( 21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862 ) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.

It was named for John Stanly of New Bern ( 1774 – 1834 ), who served several terms in the North Carolina House of Commons and two terms ( 1801 – 1803, 1809 – 1811 ) in the United States House of Representatives.

Floyd, who had conducted an important survey of Jefferson County in 1774, bought of land from soldiers who had been awarded the parcels for their service in the French and Indian War.

At a Committee of Safety meeting in 1774, Leicester's Colonel William Henshaw declared that " we must have companies of men ready to march upon a minute's notice "— coining the term " minutemen ", a nickname for the militia members who fought in the revolution's first battles.

An alternative derivation is that the Township was named for Joseph Galloway, a Loyalist delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774, who was opposed to independence of the Thirteen colonies.

On 5 June 1774, William married Lady Georgiana Spencer ( 1757 – 1806 ), a colourful character who became something of a national female icon of the late 18th century for her prominent role in fashion, politics and society in a predominately male-dominated environment.

* 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.

The first non-Indian settlers within the current-day boundaries of the township were Fergus Moorhead and his family, who arrived in 1772 and built a grist mill in 1774.

He died before it was completed in 1774 and it was inherited by his heir, James Ivers, who had to take the surname ' Trecothick ' in order to inherit the estate.

Boggs Run ( the creek that runs through the land ) is named after John Boggs ( 1738-1826 ), who staked his claim to the land surrounding the creek in 1774 and settled there with his family along the creek.

Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.

Prince Menshikov called the attention of the Turks to the fact that during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ), the Russians had occupied the Turkish controlled provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia on the north bank of the Danube River, but he reminded them that pursuant to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, however, the Russians had returned these " Danubian provinces " to Ottoman control in exchange for the right to protect the Christian sites in the Holy Land.

By around 1774, he had concluded that the same effects could be created by passing the hands, at a distance, in front of the subject's body, referred to as making " Mesmeric passes.

Between 1767 and 1774 Hutton had considerable close involvement with the construction of the Forth and Clyde canal, making full use of his geological knowledge, both as a shareholder and as a member of the committee of management, and attended meetings including extended site inspections of all the works.

His mother Elizabeth Jones ( 1730 – 1774 ) married Spence Monroe in 1752 and they had several children.

In 1774 at the age of 16, Monroe's father died and he inherited his small plantation and slaves, officially joining the ruling class of the planter elite in what had become the slave society of Virginia.

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.

Between 1774 – 1781, French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalogue of celestial objects that had a nebulous appearance similar to comets.

The claims that the Pope was poisoned were denied by those closest to him, and as the Annual Register for 1774 stated, he was over 70 and had been in ill health for some time.

The first Parish Church in Jamestown had been showing signs of decay for many years, and finally a new building was erected in 1774.

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.

By 1774, Ann Lee and some eight of her followers had emigrated to America, settling in New York.

On 27 April 1774, a week after the première of Gluck's opera, Iphigénie en Aulide, which had secured the Dauphine's position as a patron of the arts, Louis XV fell ill with smallpox.

She was given free rein to renovate the Petit Trianon, a small château on the grounds of Versailles, which was given to her as a gift by Louis XVI on 15 August 1774 ; she concentrated mainly on horticulture, redesigning the garden in the English fashion, which in the previous reign had been an arboretum of introduced species, and adding flowers.

First, there was the return of the handsome Swede, Count Axel von Fersen – whom she had met previously on New Year's Day, 1774, while she was still Dauphine – to Versailles for two years.

In November 1774, Cook started from New Zealand and crossed the South Pacific without sighting land between 53 ° and 57 ° S to Tierra del Fuego ; then, passing Cape Horn on 29 December, he rediscovered Roché Island renaming it Isle of Georgia, and discovered the South Sandwich Islands ( named Sandwich Land by him ), the only ice-clad land he had seen, before crossing the South Atlantic to the Cape of Good Hope between 55 ° and 60 °.

By the time the war ended ( 1783 ) Newport's population had fallen from over 9, 000 ( according to the census of 1774 ) to less than 4, 000.

The House, situated near the Strand in central London, had been purpose-designed by the Adam Brothers ( James Adam and Robert Adam ) as part of their innovative Adelphi scheme completed in 1774.