1774 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1774 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

31 March - American Revolutionary War: Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed in the Boston Port Act.^[1]
17 April - The first avowedly Unitarian congregation, Essex Street Chapel in London, is founded by Theophilus Lindsey.
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.^[2]
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]
1 August - Joseph Priestley, working independently at Bowood House, Wiltshire, isolates oxygen in the form of a gas.^[3]
4 October - A highwayman robs Prime Minister Lord North near Chiswick.^[4]

Luke Hansard begins printing the transcripts of parliamentary debates.^[1]
Methodist founder John Wesley's pamphlet Thoughts Upon Slavery arguing against the slave trade.^[6]

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)

^ ^a ^b ^c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 328. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
^ Forsyth, J.S. (1825). The Antiquary's Portfolio. London: George Wightman. p. 150.
^ Priestley, Joseph (1775). "An Account of Further Discoveries in Air". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (London) 65: 384–94. JSTOR 106209.
^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 226–227. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
^ "Royal Crescent". Images of England. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=443488. Retrieved 2006-11-14.
^ "BBC History British History Timeline". http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/launch_tl_british.shtml. Retrieved 2007-09-03.