King Louis XV, dissatisfied with Clement XIII's action in regard to the Duke of Parma, occupied the Papal States from 1768 to 1774 and substituted French institutions for those in force with the approval of the people of Avignon ; a French party grew up which, after the sanguinary massacres of La Glacière between the adherents of the Papacy and the Republicans ( 16 – 17 October 1791 ), carried all before it, and induced the Constituent Assembly to decree the union of Avignon and the Comtat ( comital district ) Venaissin with France on 14 September 1791.

In the Battle of Point Pleasant ( October 10, 1774 ), fought on the future site of the town, over one thousand Virginia militiamen, led by Colonel Andrew Lewis ( 1720 – 1781 ), defeated a roughly equal force of an Algonquin confederation of Shawnee and Mingo warriors led by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk ( ca.

A member of the progressive Scottish Rite Masonic lodge at Chambéry from 1774 to 1790, Maistre originally favoured political reform in France, supporting the efforts of the magistrates in the Parlements to force King Louis XVI to convene the Estates General.

In 1774, the committees of correspondence that had sprung up throughout the colonies were being drawn to the support of Boston, as they reacted to the closing of the port and increase of the occupying military force.

Over one hundred years later, the Mystic River played a role in the American Revolution when on September 1, 1774, a force of roughly 260 British regulars rowed from Boston up the Mystic River to a landing point near Winter Hill in today's Somerville.

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.

They include two concertos for pianoforte, one in C major and one in B flat major, ( both 1773 ); a concerto for organ in C Major in two movements, ( the middle movement is missing from the autograph score, or perhaps, it was an improvised organ solo ) ( also 1773 ); two concertante works: a concerto for oboe, violin and cello in D major ( 1770 ), and a flute and oboe concerto in C major ( 1774 ).

Upon Gassmann's death on 22 January, most likely due to complications from an accident with a carriage some years earlier, Salieri succeeded him as assistant director of the Italian opera in early 1774.

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.

The blue line marks the outward from 11 < sup > th </ sup > June 1773 until to 8 < sup > th </ sup > October 1773, and the red line marks the return journey 5 < sup > th </ sup > March 1774 to 21 < sup > st </ sup > October 1774.

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.

He was a Scottish Representative Peer from 1747 to 1761 and from 1774 to 1790.

As a result of economic pressures stemming from the upcoming American War of Independence, Britain unilaterally chose to withdraw from many overseas settlements in 1774.

He was the second President of the Continental Congress from October 22, 1774, until Peyton Randolph was able to resume his duties briefly beginning on May 10, 1775.

In 1774, Middleton was elected as a delegate from South Carolina to the First Continental Congress.

However, he did respond favorably to an approach from the composer Gluck, whom he met in 1774.

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.

Pope Clement XIV ( 31 October 1705 – 22 September 1774 ), born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was Pope from 1769 to 1774.

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.

Darrel P. Kaiser wrote, " Kazakh-Kirghiz tribesmen kidnapped 1573 settlers from colonies settlements in Russia in 1774 alone and only half were successfully ransomed.

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.

His position changed from an obsession in 1774 with the question of the authority of Parliament to a search for a formula for conciliation in 1775.

* October 29 – Marmaduke Williams, Democratic-Republican U. S. Congressman from North Carolina ( b. 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.

This congregation, to which appeals were made from the decisions of the vice-legate, was united to the Congregation of Loreto within the Roman Curia ; in 1774 the vice-legate was made president, thus depriving it of almost all authority.

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 ).

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

The islands were administered as part of the Colony of Newfoundland from 1763 until 1774, when they were joined to Quebec by the Quebec Act.

Dunmore's War — or Lord Dunmore's War — was a 1774 conflict between the Colony of Virginia and the Shawnee and Mingo American Indian nations.

Due to an oversight, two separate Kings of England ( Charles I and Charles II ) awarded the same upstate New York territory to both Massachusetts Bay Colony and New York Colony respectively ; Pennsylvania Colony also separately laid claim to much of the territory now in the Southern Tier up until 1774.

The 5th left Monkstown, Ireland on 7 May 1774, for Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

In October 1774, Middleton was elected as the President of Continental Congress, when previous president Peyton Randolph was forced to return to Virginia to take his position as Speaker of the Virginia House of Burgesses.

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.

After the House of Burgesses was dissolved by the royal governor in 1774, Virginia's revolutionary leaders continued to govern via the Virginia Conventions.

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.

As a gesture of support, the reconvened House of Burgesses passed a resolution making 1 June 1774 a day of fasting and prayer in Virginia.

He was a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1777 and, during the Second Continental Congress, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

By 1774, the Earl of Dunmore, then governor of the colonies of New York and Virginia, decided to raise an army of three thousand to go against the Shawnees in their homeland in present-day Ohio.

Following the war, from 1763 to 1774 Daniel Morgan served in Captain Ashby's company and defended Virginia against Pontiac's Rebellion and Shawnee Indians in the Ohio valley ( that part now in West Virginia ).

* Point Pleasant Battleground, near Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and site of a 1774 battle between Virginia militia and Native Americans

http :// www. wvculture. org / history / thisdayinwvhistory / 0430. html < BR > At present-day Hancock County, West Virginia, " On This Day in West Virginia History ...", " April 30, 1774: Massacre of Logan's family " West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Copyright 2009.

Johns Hopkins was born on May 19, 1795, to Samuel Hopkins ( 1759 – 1814 ) of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and Hannah Janney ( 1774 – 1864 ), of Loudoun County, Virginia.

He was elected to the House of Burgesses in 1774, and was a delegate to the First Virginia Convention.

Pendleton was on the Virginia Committee of Correspondence in 1773 and was a delegate to Continental Congress from Virginia in 1774.

He joined the patriot's Committee of Safety in Virginia in 1774 and represented his county in the Virginia Convention.

In 1774, Lee was among those who called for a general congress and the first of the Virginia Conventions, which he attended.

Morgan was born in Culpeper, Virginia, in 1774.