What happened 1774 AD

Parliament sought to punish Massachusetts colonists for their role in the Boston Tea Party in 1774 by passing the Coersive Acts, which Washington referred to as "an invasion of our rights and privileges". He said Americans must not submit to acts of tyranny since "custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway". That July, he and George Mason drafted a list of resolutions for the Fairfax County committee which Washington chaired, and the committee adopted the Fairfax Resolves calling for a Continental Congress.

Mozart wrote the bassoon concerto at the age of 18, and it was his first concerto for a wind instrument. In this piece, Mozart gave his bassoon soloist a real run-out on the instrument, with fast, florid passages that are still something of a challenge today, never mind the much more unfavourable 1770s instrument.

This action (Battle of Balta) provoked the Ottoman Empire into the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774. The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca of 1774 ended the war and provided freedom of worship for the Christian citizens of the Ottoman-controlled provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia.

On August 1, Washington attended the First Virginia Convention, where he was selected as a delegate to the First Continental Congress.

The presence of British troops in Boston was denounced in the fourth annual Massacre Day oration delivered by John Hancock.

John Braham was born in London in 1774.

The 1st Continental Congress, a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that later became the United States, takes place in Philadelphia.

A Dutch lawyer and politician, Hubert Matthijs Adriaan Jan van ASCH van WIJCK, was born in the Netherlands in 1774.