About the day » Saturday May 14, 1774Calender converter

• Anna Sophia VAN ACKER, Lichtervelde Belgie († 1852)
• Catharina P Schut, Hillsdale, Columbia Cnty, New York, Verenigde Staten († 1879)
• Anne Angele LARDINOIS, Theux, 63076, Liège, Belgique
• Dirk Gerritsz Bakker, Beverwijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1831)
• Anna Magdalena van Hasselt, Zutphen († 1813)
• Ariaentje van Amerongen, Overlangbroek, Amerongen, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Christianus Oerlmans, Essen-Spilbeek (B) († 1843)
• Dominicus Egidius Colson, Dilsen († 1851)
• Anne Catherine Louise Joseph Delebar, Lille (la Madeleine), 59350, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France († 1775)
• Aeltjen Aelberdink, Kotten, Gelderland, Netherlands

• Adamus Bastiaenssens (55), Stabroek
• Jan Hendriks (1), Heelsum
• Jost Henrich Rath (0), Birkelbach, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Elisabeth Pott (16), Wunderthausen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Benoite BEAUJEU (63), Saint-Bonnet-le-Troncy,69870,Rhône,Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes,FRANCE
• Eleazer Hawks (80), Deerfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts
• Anna Margaretha Zoltzer (75), Kirchlotheim
• Hendrik Woutersen, Otterloo
• Bartholomeus De Vos, Duffel
• Maria Anna Coleta van Outheusden (61), Utrecht,Gemeente Utrecht,Utrecht,Netherlands

• 1737 » George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Irish-English politician and diplomat, Governor of Grenada († 1806)
• 1752 » Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist and author († 1828)
• 1752 » Timothy Dwight IV, American minister, theologian, and academic († 1817)
• 1761 » Samuel Dexter, American lawyer and politician, 4th United States Secretary of War, 3rd United States Secretary of the Treasury († 1816)
• 1771 » Robert Owen, Welsh businessman and social reformer († 1858)
• 1771 » Thomas Wedgwood, English photographer († 1805)
• 1781 » Friedrich Ludwig Georg von Raumer, German historian and academic († 1873)
• 1794 » Fanny Imlay, daughter of British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft († 1816)
• 1814 » Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company († 1876)
• 1817 » Alexander Kaufmann, German poet and educator († 1893)

• 1667 » Georges de Scudéry, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1601)
• 1688 » Antoine Furetière, French scholar, lexicographer, and author (b. 1619)
• 1754 » Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French playwright and producer (b. 1692)
• 1761 » Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710)
• 1847 » Fanny Mendelssohn, German pianist and composer (b. 1805)
• 1860 » Ludwig Bechstein, German author (b. 1801)
• 1873 » Gideon Brecher, Austrian physician and author (b. 1797)
• 1878 » Ōkubo Toshimichi, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1830)
• 1881 » Mary Seacole, Jamaican-English nurse and author (b. 1805)
• 1889 » Volney Howard, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (b. 1809)

• Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
• 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 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• July 4 » Orangetown Resolutions are adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts.
• September 1 » Massachusetts Bay colonists rise up in the bloodless Powder Alarm.
• October 21 » The flag of Taunton, Massachusetts is the first to include the word "Liberty".
• October 26 » The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.

The temperature on May 14, 1774 was about 15.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast by north. Weather type: omtrent helder. Special wheather fenomena: veel dauw.