1774 in Great Britain

none September 2020 September 2026 1774 yes Events from the year 1774 in Great Britain. Incumbents Monarch – George III Prime Minister – Frederick North, Lord North (Tory)History of Lord Frederick North - GOV.UK https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/frederick-north gov.uk 1 July 2023 en Events 27 January – John Wilkinson patents a method for boring cannon from the solid, subsequently utilised for accurate boring of steam engine cylinders.J. R. Harris Wilkinson, John (1728–1808) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29428 2011-01-14 19 February – Calico Acts repealed, leading to the development and mechanisation of the British cotton industry.Gupta Bishnupriya Cotton textiles and the great divergence: Lancashare, India and shifting of competitive advantage, 1600-1850 http://www.iisg.nl/hpw/papers/broadberry-gupta.pdf International Institute of Social History Department of Economics, University of Warwick 2016-12-05 22 February – the legal case of Donaldson v Beckett is decided in the House of Lords, denying the continued existence of a perpetual common law copyright and holding that copyright is a creation of statute and can be limited in its duration.2 Brown's Parl. Cases 129, 1 Eng. Rep. 837; 4 Burr. 2408, 98 Eng. Rep. 257; 17 Cobbett's Parl. Hist. 953 (1813). This does permit authors to claim copyright in their own works. 31 March – American Revolutionary War: Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 978-0-304-35730-7 328 17 April – the first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel in London, is founded by Theophilus Lindsey. 20 April – Life Assurance Act stipulates that people taking out life assurance must have an interest in the life of the insured person, with the intention of eliminating the use of policies as a form of gambling. 2 May – the Society of Antiquaries of London open the coffin of King Edward I and discover that his body has been perfectly preserved for 467 years.The Antiquary's Portfolio https://archive.org/details/antiquarysportfo01forsuoft 150 J.S. Forsyth George Wightman London 1825 19 May – Shakers Ann Lee and eight followers sail from Liverpool for colonial America. 2 June – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act, requiring American colonists to let British soldiers into their homes, is re-enacted. 22 June – Quebec Act passed setting out rules of governance for the colony of Quebec in British North America. 1 August – Joseph Priestley, working independently at Bowood House, Wiltshire, isolates oxygen in the form of a gas.Priestley Joseph 106209 An Account of Further Discoveries in Air Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 65 1775 384–94 10.1098/rstl.1775.0039 4 October – a highwayman robs Prime Minister Lord North near Chiswick.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 226–227 978-0-7126-5616-0 5 October–10 November – 1774 British general election. Lord North continues as prime minister. (In Westminster, Ignatius Sancho becomes the first person of African origin eligible to vote in Britain.) Undated The Royal Crescent, Bath, designed by John Wood the Younger, is completed.Royal Crescent Images of England http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443488 https://web.archive.org/web/20071103232721/http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443488 dead 2007-11-03 2006-11-14 A revision of the laws of cricket introduces a leg before wicket rule. Publications Luke Hansard begins printing the transcripts of parliamentary debates. Methodist founder John Wesley's pamphlet Thoughts Upon Slavery arguing against the slave trade.https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml BBC History British History Timeline 2007-09-03 https://web.archive.org/web/20070909012414/http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml 9 September 2007 Births 29 January – Olinthus Gregory, mathematician (died 1841) 24 February – Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge (died 1850) 16 March – Captain Matthew Flinders, explorer (died 1814) 12 August – Robert Southey, poet and biographer (died 1843) Edward Baines, newspaper proprietor and politician (died 1848) Arthur Thistlewood, conspirator (executed 1820) Highflyer, racehorse (died 1793) Deaths 1 July – Henry Fox, 1st Baron Holland, statesman (born 1705) 14 July – James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley, field marshal (born 1682) 22 November – Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, general and statesman (suicide, born 1725) 25 November – Henry Baker, naturalist (born 1698) See also 1774 in Wales References 1774 Category:Years in the Kingdom of Great Britain Category:1774 by country Category:1774 in Europe Category:1770s in Great Britain