In 1774, he became a physics professor at the Royal School in Como.

War was, however, forced on him and less than a year after his accession the complete defeat of the Turks at Battle of Kozluja led to the humiliating Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca on July 21, 1774.

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 outrage of the Wentworth proprietors was renewed in 1774 when Governor Tryon passed a law containing harsh provisions clearly targeted at the actions of the " Bennington Mob ".

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 the years following 1770, at least five investigators in England and Germany ( Sevel, Jensen, Jesty 1774, Rendell, Plett 1791 ) successfully tested a cowpox vaccine in humans against smallpox.

In July 1774, he chaired the meeting at which the " Fairfax Resolves " were adopted, which called for the convening of a Continental Congress, among other things.

In October 1774, he was attending the celebrated foundation-school at Pforta near Naumburg.

In 1774 Louis XVI ascended to the throne of France at age 20.

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 name was in use at least as early as 1774.

Sometimes the catch is obscene, as in the 1st Earl of Mornington's catch of 1774, " See the bowl sparkles " in which, at bars 5-8 the different parts sing and hold, successively, the words " see ", " you ", " end " and " tea " which are innocuous in the context of each part separately but clearly spell out " cunt " in performance ( no 200 in The Aldrich Book of Catches ( 1989 )).

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.

When he died in 1774, as his will specified, his heart was placed in an urn at West Wycombe.

The movement gained popularity in England in the wake of the Enlightenment and began to become a formal denomination in 1774 when Theophilus Lindsey organised meetings with Joseph Priestley, founding the first avowedly Unitarian congregation in the country, at Essex Street Church in London.

He " began to look at the planets and the stars " in May, 1773 and on 1 March 1774 began an astronomical journal by noting his observations of Saturn's rings and the Great Orion Nebula ( M 42 ).

In a footnote to a poem titled Speech to the Western Indians, ( published 1813 ) Arent DePeyster, British commandant at Fort Michilimackinac from 1774 to 1779, noted that " Baptist Point de Saible " was " handsome ", " well educated ", and " settled in Eschecagou ".

In a speech to the electorate at Bristol in 1774, Edmund Burke described the British Parliament as a " deliberative assembly ," and the expression became the basic term for a body of persons meeting to discuss and determine common action.

In truth, it was copied from another, far grander " model village " built in 1774 for the prince de Condé on his estate at Chantilly.

The second in the pair, François Quesnay ( 1694 – 1774 ), was among those publishing heavily in the journals that were appearing at the time.

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.

From this base, further missions were established at Lichtenfels ( 1748 ), Lichtenau ( 1774 ), Friedrichsthal ( 1824 ), Umanak ( 1861 ), and Idlorpait ( 1864 ), before they were discontinued in 1900 and folded into the Lutheran Church of Denmark.

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 XV died on 10 May 1774 of smallpox at the Palace of Versailles.

Louis XV fell ill on 27 April 1774 and died on 10 May of smallpox at the age of 64.

At the age of six he began the study of Latin, and at the age of twelve, he was sent to Harvard College graduating in 1774 when he began work as a teacher.

As Lord Mahon he contested the Westminster without success in 1774, when only just of age ; but from the general election of 1780 until his accession to the peerage on 7 March 1786 he represented through the influence of Lord Shelburne the Buckinghamshire borough of High Wycombe.

When Donaldson v Beckett reached the House of Lords in 1774 Lord Camden was most strident in his rejection of the common law copyright, warning the Lords that should they vote in favour of common law copyright, effectively a perpetual copyright, " all our learning will be locked up in the hands of the Tonsons and the Lintots of the age ".

At age 20, he entered the British Army and joined his regiment, the 7th Royal Fusiliers, in Canada in 1774 as a lieutenant.

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.

She made her stage debut at the age of twelve as a dancer, but it was as an actress " with songs " that she made her debut at the Comédie Italienne in 1774 in Grétry's Sylvain.

A bust of Orme at the age of forty-six, made in 1774 by J. Nollekens, was bequeathed to the East India Company ; an engraving of it forms the frontispiece to Orme's Historical Fragments, ed.

When Donaldson v Beckett reached the House of Lords in 1774 Lord Camden was most strident in his rejection of the common law copyright, warning the Lords that should they vote in favour of common law copyright, effectively a perpetual copyright, " all our learning will be locked up in the hands of the Tonsons and the Lintots of the age ".

Showing a prodigious intellect and talent from an early age, Goethe wrote Götz von Berlichingen ( 1773 ) and his first substantially acknowledged novel The Sorrows of Young Werther ( 1774 ) here as well as laying the foundations for his celebrated interpretation of Faust.

* June 16 – William Lawson, British explorer of New South Wales ( b. 1774 )

* October 16 – Manuel Piar, Venezuelan military leader ( b. 1774 )

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.

Marie Antoinette ( or ; ; baptised Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna ( or Maria Antonia Josephina Johanna ); 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793 ) was an Archduchess of Austria from 1755 to 1770, a Dauphine of France from 1770 to 1774 and the Queen of France and of Navarre from 1774 to 1792.

Work began on 29 June 1774, and the lock and cut at Coltishall were completed by 16 March 1775, when the first boat used the lock.

Harrodsburg was founded on June 16, 1774 by James Harrod, the first city in Kentucky.

Charles Thomson ( November 29, 1729 – August 16, 1824 ) was a Patriot leader in Philadelphia during the American Revolution and the secretary of the Continental Congress ( 1774 – 1789 ) throughout its existence.

Robert Fergusson ( 5 September 1750 – 16 October 1774 ) was a Scottish poet.

Henry married Lucy Flucker ( 1756 – 1824 ), the daughter of Boston Loyalists, on June 16, 1774, despite opposition from her father that was due to their differing political views.

William Lawson ( 2 June 1774 – 16 June 1850 ) was an explorer of New South Wales, Australia who co-discovered a passage inland through the Blue Mountains from Sydney.

The latter likely grew out of lodging arrangements for single individuals ( who, in workhouses, were considered disruptive or ungovernable ) then there were a few catering each for only a handful of people, then they gradually expanded ( e. g. 16 in London in 1774, and 40 by 1819 ).

** Hongtiao ( 弘晀 ; 16 June 1714-28 August 1774 ), born to Lady Wanggiya, granted the title of " Duke Who Assists the Nation " ( 輔國公 ) but later stripped off.

The couple had a third boy on October 16, 1774.

On October 19, 1774 the Peggy Stewart was burned in Annapolis harbour in protest against taxes on tea, in imitation of the famous Boston Tea Party, which took place on December 16, 1773.

It was discovered by James Cook on 16 June 1774.

Based on the records that survive, H. P. Salomon and I. S. D. Sassoon state that between the Inquisition's beginning in 1561 and its temporary abolition in 1774, some 16, 202 persons were brought to trial by the Inquisition.

From 1560 to 1774, a total of 16, 172 persons were tried and condemned or acquitted by the tribunals of the Inquisition.

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

They had differences " not everyone sees things in the same light, and people have the weakness of frequently being too fond of their own opinions " ( letter to Linnaeus 16 October, 1772 ) and " if here and there I am still of a different opinion, I am now, as before, asking you not to take it amiss " ( letter to Linnaeus 23 February 1774 ).

The building was put out to tender, and on 16 May 1774 Thomas Kerr was awarded the contract to build the bridge for the sum of £ 10, 900 ( about £ as of ).

* Percy Wyndham-O ' Brien, 1st Earl of Thomond 27 November 1764 – 16 March 1774

* Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford 16 March 1774 – 5 August 1792

* Princess Yevdokiya Borisovna Yusupova May 5 ( NS: May 16 ) 1743, Moscow-July 19 ( NS: July 8 ) 1780, Saint Petersburg ), married on March 6, 1774, Mitava ( Mittau ) ( divorced in 1777 or 1778 ), as his second wife, to Peter von Biron, the last Duke von Kurland ( 1769 – 1795 ) and the first Duke von Sagan ( 1786 – 1795 ) ( February 15, 1724, Mitava ( Mittau )-January 13, 1800, Schloss Gellenau ), without offspring