1774 in Great Britain

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1774 English cricket season

Events from the year 1774 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

[edit] Incumbents

• Monarch - George III of the United Kingdom
• Prime Minister - Frederick North, Lord North, Tory

[edit] Events

• 2 January - The Society of Antiquaries open the coffin of King Edward I and discover that his body has been perfectly preserved for 467 years.^[1]
• 31 March - American Revolutionary War: Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.^[2]
• 2 June - Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
• 22 June - Quebec Act passed setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.^[2]
• 1 August - Independent discovery of Oxygen by Joseph Priestley.^[3]
• 4 October - A highwayman robs Prime Minister Frederick North, Lord North near Chiswick.^[4]

[edit] Publications

• Luke Hansard begins printing the transcripts of parliamentary debates.^[2]
• Methodist founder John Wesley's pamphlet Thoughts Upon Slavery arguing against the slave trade.^[5]

[edit] Births

• 29 January - Olinthus Gregory, mathematician (died 1841)
• 24 February - Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (died 1850)
• 16 March - Captain Matthew Flinders, explorer (died 1814)
• 12 August - Robert Southey, poet and biographer (died 1843)
• Edward Baines, newspaper-proprietor and politician (died 1848)
• Arthur Thistlewood, conspirator (died 1820)

[edit] Deaths

• 1 July - Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, statesman (born 1705)
• 14 July - James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, field marshal (born 1682)
• 22 November - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, general and statesman (suicide, born 1725)
• 25 November - Henry Baker, naturalist (born 1698)

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