* 1774 – Franz Mesmer described the therapeutic properties of " animal magnetism " ( hypnotherapy ), and began a clinical practice.

In 1774, he was invited to Rome to write an opera for the stagione of that year ; and there he produced another comic opera called L ' italiana in Londra.

He continued for some years to be connected with Drury Lane, both as composer and as actor, and produced during this period two of his best known works, The Waterman ( 1774 ) and The Quaker ( 1775 ).

The legislative process of the Continental Congress ( 1774 – 1789 ) produced a system that transferred individual state land claims into a repository of land held by the federal government, to be used for the benefit of the nation as a whole.

Despite significant political differences and disagreements between the Thirteen Colonies, tensions occasioned by the harsh Parliamentary response to the 1773 Boston Tea Party prompted the calling of the First Continental Congress, which produced a united response to the Intolerable Acts of 1774.

In 1774, at age 17, he started studies at Lund University and produced two dissertations within two years, but was expelled just before presenting the second one.

Luigi Galvani ( 1737 – 1798 ) demonstrated that electrical stimulation of nerve produced muscle contraction, and the competing work of Charles Bell ( 1774 – 1842 ) and Francois Magendie ( 1783 – 1855 ) led to the view that the ventral horns of the spinal cord were motor and the dorsal horns sensory.

From 1774 he was engaged in the management at Drury Lane theatre, London, composing or compiling the music of many of the pieces produced there, besides songs and madrigals, which rank high among English compositions.

The group produced 16 tableaux, which were engraved in France in 1774, 6 years after Attiret's death in Beijing, China.

The reign of Louis XVI ( 1774 – 1792 ) saw a temporary revival of French fortunes, but the over-ambitious projects and military campaigns of the 18th century had produced chronic financial problems.

By late 1774 the tide was turning, and the Russian army's victory at Tsaritsyn left 9, 000-10, 000 rebels dead.

His German dictionary Grammatisch-kritisches Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart ( 1774 – 1786 ) bears witness to the patient spirit of investigation which Adelung possessed in so remarkable a degree, and to his intimate knowledge of the history of the different dialects on which modern German is based.

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.

Appointed the director of the Italian opera by the Habsburg court, a post he held from 1774 to 1792, Salieri dominated Italian language opera in Vienna.

It was rediscovered by the Europa in 1774, whence the name " Europa Rocks ".

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

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.

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.

By March 1774, the harsh treatment of settlers and their property by Allen and the Boys prompted Tryon to increase some of the rewards to £ 100.

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.

In 1774, he was asked, on behalf of the Spanish crown, by the German artist Anton Raphael Mengs, to undertake the series.

Printed by John Dunlap, 1774.

Hans Egede's Hope Colony was organized under the auspices of the Bergen Greenland Company prior to its bankruptcy in 1727 ; it was succeeded by the merchant Jacob Severin ( 1733 – 1749 ), the General Trade Company ( Det almindelige Handelskompagni ; 1749 – 1774 ), and finally the Royal Greenland Trading Department ( KGH ; 1776 – 1908 ).

The Grammatisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch der hochdeutschen Mundart, a High German grammar in five volumes by Johann Christoph Adelung, appeared as early as 1774.

The Hudson's Bay Company's second inland trading post was established by Samuel Hearne in 1774 in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan.

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.

The Ancien Regime: A History of France 1610 – 1774 ( 1999 ), survey by leader of the Annales School excerpt and text search

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.

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.

Provoked by Russian expansion down the Alaska coast Juan José Pérez Hernández explored the Pacific coast in 1774, followed by James Cook in 1778.

Johan Gottlieb Gahn was the first to isolate an impure sample of manganese metal in 1774, by reducing the dioxide with carbon.

Ruins of St. Paul's | St. Paul's Cathedral in the 19th century by George Chinnery ( 1774 – 1852 )

Oxygen was independently discovered by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, in Uppsala, in 1773 or earlier, and Joseph Priestley in Wiltshire, in 1774, but Priestley is often given priority because his work was published first.

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.

Saskatchewan was first explored by Europeans in 1690 and settled in 1774, having also been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups.

The expedition got under way in October 1775 and arrived at Mission San Gabriel in January 1776, the colonists having suffered greatly from the winter weather en route. Juan Bautista de Anza, from a portrait in oil by Fray Orsi in 1774

Louis Stanislas impregnated his wife in 1774, having conquered his aversion to Marie Joséphine.

On 27 April 1774, Louis XV fell ill after having contracted smallpox, and died the following 10 May.

Louis Stanislas lived a quiet and sedentary lifestyle at this point, not having a great deal to do since his self-proclaimed political exclusion in 1774.

He then arrived in Boston on 13 May 1774, having been carried there by the HMS Lively.

Leeds was a Member of Parliament for Eye in 1774 and for Helston from 1774 to 1775 ; in 1776 having received a writ of acceleration as Baron Osborne, he entered the House of Lords, and in 1777 Lord Chamberlain of the Queen's Household.

It was not, however, until 1774 that he published an essay on the subject, accompanied by a geological map, having meanwhile on several occasions revisited the district.

It is reported that in 1774, Tiresians were ' well-clothed and well-fed, having an abundance of corn and cattle '.

He was in England again in 1773, but returned to France in 1774 having lost his pension ( at aged 70 ).

He has a unique distinction of having been elected to both the Parliament of Great Britain ( MP, 1774 – 1780, 1784 – 1790 ) and the New York State Senate ( 1792 – 1796 ).

Nathaniel Peabody ( March 30, 1774 – 1855 ) was a U. S. physician and dentist from Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, having studied at Dartmouth.

He entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1769, but in 1771 entered the Royal Navy as an able seaman ; in 1774 he became member of Parliament for Great Marlow ; and in 1775 he was created a baronet, the baronetcy held by his ancestors, the Borlases, having become extinct in 1689.

The painting was installed in the Chapel in 1968, which involved the restoration of the sanctuary floor leading up to the High Altar to its original level ( gradations having been created in 1774 by James Essex ).

This painting, which was the triumph of the Salon of 1781, included a portrayal of the Borghese Gladiator ( Ménageot probably having seen it at the Villa Borghese during his stay at the French Academy in Rome from 1769 to 1774 ), although this was an anachronism since Leonardo died in 1519, about ninety years before the statue was discovered.