January 26 » Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
March 8 » Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
April 15 » Foundation of the Kingdom of Corsica.
May 26 » The Battle of Ackia was fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi. British and Chickasaw soldiers repelled a French and Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.
October 16 » Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth.
Day of death December 3, 1774
The temperature on December 3, 1774 was about 3.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south east. Weather type: regen. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
March 31 » American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
June 22 » The British pass the Quebec Act, setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
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.
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