1774 Een kint tot Makkinga gedoopt den 24 November van Pier Schurer en Simke Wilts tot Makkinga en het kint tot Makkinga gebooren den 19 November en genaamt Wilt.
June 2 » Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
June 13 » Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain's North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
August 1 » British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas, corroborating the prior discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele.
September 4 » New Caledonia is first sighted by Europeans, during the second voyage of Captain James Cook.
October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
Christening day December 18, 1774
The temperature on December 18, 1774 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east. Weather type: dampig. Source: KNMI
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