1774

1774 (MDCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1774th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 774th year of the 2nd millennium, the 74th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1770s decade. As of the start of 1774, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1740s  1750s  1760s  – 1770s –  1780s  1790s  1800s
Years:	1771 1772 1773 – 1774 – 1775 1776 1777

1774 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1774 MDCCLXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2527
Armenian calendar	1223 ԹՎ ՌՄԻԳ
Assyrian calendar	6524
Balinese saka calendar	1695–1696
Bengali calendar	1181
Berber calendar	2724
British Regnal year	14 Geo. 3 – 15 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar	2318
Burmese calendar	1136
Byzantine calendar	7282–7283
Chinese calendar	癸巳年 (Water Snake) 4470 or 4410     — to — 甲午年 (Wood Horse) 4471 or 4411
Coptic calendar	1490–1491
Discordian calendar	2940
Ethiopian calendar	1766–1767
Hebrew calendar	5534–5535
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1830–1831
- Shaka Samvat	1695–1696
- Kali Yuga	4874–4875
Holocene calendar	11774
Igbo calendar	774–775
Iranian calendar	1152–1153
Islamic calendar	1187–1188
Japanese calendar	An'ei 3 (安永３年)
Javanese calendar	1699–1700
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4107
Minguo calendar	138 before ROC 民前138年
Nanakshahi calendar	306
Thai solar calendar	2316–2317
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Water-Snake) 1900 or 1519 or 747     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Wood-Horse) 1901 or 1520 or 748

Events

• January 21 – Mustafa III, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire dies and is succeeded by his brother Abd-ul-Hamid I.
• May 10 – Louis XVI becomes King of France.
• June 2 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is reenacted.
• June 11 – Jews in Algier escape the attack of the Spanish army.
• July 21 – Russo-Turkish War, 1768-1774: Russia and the Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ending six years of war. The treaty does give Russia the right to intervene in Ottoman politics to protect its Christian subjects.
• September 5 – First Continental Congress assembles in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• The British pass the Quebec Act setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America.
• The Sardinian pika becomes extinct.

Births

• September 26 – Johnny Appleseed