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In 1774, he explored the St. Johns River, where he had memorable encounters with aggressive alligators which he recorded in one of his journals, Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, and also visited a principal Seminole village at Cuscowilla, where his arrival was celebrated with a great feast.
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Provoked by Russian expansion down the Alaska coast Juan José Pérez Hernández explored the Pacific coast in 1774, followed by James Cook in 1778.
Saskatchewan was first explored by Europeans in 1690 and settled in 1774, having also been inhabited for thousands of years by various indigenous groups.
Scott County was explored as early as 1774.
In 1774 he mounted the Crammont, and again in 1778, in which year he also explored the Valsorey glacier, near the Great St Bernard in 1776 he had ascended the Buet ( 3, 096m ).
Britain's claims to the region were dated back to the voyage of Sir Francis Drake in 1579, and also by right of prior discovery by Captain James Cook in 1778, although the Spanish had explored and claimed the region in 1774, under Juan Pérez, and in 1775, under Bruno de Heceta and Bodega y Quadra.
They were later overlooked in 1774 when Captain James Cook explored Vanuatu and believed he saw the whole chain.
Other European researchers who explored the country, such as Augustin Saint-Hilaire ( 1799 – 1853 ) and the Baron von Langsdorff ( 1774 – 1891 ), contributed for the collections of the Royal Museum.
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Ruins of St. Paul's | St. Paul's Cathedral in the 19th century by George Chinnery ( 1774 – 1852 )
In 1774 the Parloe's chess club, on St James street, in London, was created and Philidor obtained a remuneration as a chess master every year, for a regular season from February to June.
The French community built St Landry Catholic Church in 1774, dedicated to St. Landry, the Bishop of Paris in the 7th century.
* 11 St. James's Square ( 1774 – 76 )
On 14 May 1774, when Toup was more than sixty years old, he was appointed by Bishop Keppel to a prebendal stall at Exeter and was admitted on 29 July 1776 to the vicarage of St. Merryn, the parish in which he had been partly educated.
On the death of Louis XV in 1774, Rohan was recalled from Vienna, and coldly received in Paris ; but his family's influence was too great for him to be neglected ; in 1777 he was made grand almoner, and in 1778, abbot of St. Vaast.
After leaving Halle in 1770, he lived for several years ( 1771 – 1774 ) in Braunschweig where he applied in vain for the post of an organist at the St. Catherine's church.
It was moved from The Old Church of St Kentigern when St. Nicolas's Church was built in 1774.
On 24 March 1774, the young prince was christened in the Great Council Chamber at St James's Palace by Frederick Cornwallis, The Archbishop of Canterbury.
St. George's Cathedral, Timişoara | St. George's Cathedral ( built between 1736 and 1774 ) of Timişoara
Concerned with these ideas, Fitzsimons became active in the Irish merchant community in Philadelphia, elected the head of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in 1771 and later, in 1774, a steering committee organized to protest the Coercive Acts.
On October 21, 1774, the First Continental Congress, meeting to craft a united response to the Intolerable Acts, resolved to address letters to the populations of Quebec, St. John's Island, Nova Scotia, Georgia, East Florida and West Florida, all being colonies that were not represented by delegates in the Congress.
In 1767, Pallas was invited by Catherine II of Russia to became a professor at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences and, between 1768 and 1774, he led an expedition to central Russian provinces, Povolzhye, Urals, West Siberia, Altay and Transbaikal collecting natural history specimens on their behalf.
The first church was St James's, in 1774.
* St. James Church, in the planned community of Milton Abbas, Dorset, 1774 – 86
The church is known for " St. Patrick's Chimes ," its ten bells, of which the oldest, " Charlotte ," was cast in 1774 and used in the previous church of Notre-Dame.
* Renée Lennox ( 1709 – 1774 ) mistress of her cousin Charles Beauclerk, 2nd Duke of St Albans.
St James ' church dates from 1774 and is the oldest Anglican church in the Southern Hemisphere.
From 1768 to 1774, St Leger sat as MP for Grimsby.
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Catherine's first war against the Grand Turk had ended in 1774 with a peace treaty quite favorable to her.
* 1774 – British scientist Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
* 1774 – Robert Southey, English poet and biographer ( d. 1843 )
* 1714 – Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick ( d. 1774 )
* 1774 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American nun and saint ( d. 1821 )
In 1774, he became a physics professor at the Royal School in Como.
* 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.
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.
As a result Salieri continued to live with Gassmann even after Gassmann's marriage, an arrangement that lasted until the year of Gassmann's death and Salieri's own marriage in 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.
In 1774 Salieri married Therese Helferstorfer on 10 October, she was the daughter of a recently deceased financier and official of the court treasury.
Sacred music was not a high priority for the composer during this stage of his career, but he did compose an Alleluia for chorus and orchestra in 1774, perhaps for his own wedding, or in thanksgiving for it.
In 1774, they were restricted to just two towns, Endingen and Lengnau.
* 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist ( d. 1862 )
In 1774 Phillip joined the Portuguese Navy as a captain, serving in the War against Spain.
He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.
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.
" Barium was identified as a new element in 1774, but not reduced to a metal until 1808, shortly after electrolytic isolation techniques became available.
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 ).
However, in 1774, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act, which restored the French civil law for matters of private law ( e. g., contracts, property, successions ), while keeping the English common law as the basis for public law in the colony, notably the criminal law.
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 proclamation, which established an appointed colonial government, was the de facto constitution of Quebec until 1774, when the British parliament passed the Quebec Act, which expanded the province's boundaries to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, which was one of the grievances listed in the United States Declaration of Independence.
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