1774

Events in 1774 5

• 1774 – 1840 Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) Died 7 May 1840, aged 65 Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic painter celebrated for his allegorical landscapes featuring solitary figures confronting vast natural scenes. His work, including Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, became a defining image of Romanticism. He died in relative obscurity in Dresden on 7 May 1840.
• 1774 – 1842 Charles Bell (1774-1842) Died 28 April 1842, aged 67 Scottish surgeon and anatomist Charles Bell did pioneering work on the nervous system. He showed that sensory and motor nerves are distinct. Bell's palsy, a facial paralysis, is named after him.
• 1774 – 1844 Francis Baily (1774-1844) Died 30 August 1844, aged 70 English astronomer and a founder of the Royal Astronomical Society. He described "Baily's beads", the points of sunlight seen at the edge of the Moon during a solar eclipse.
• 1774 – 1843 Robert Southey (1774-1843) Died 21 March 1843, aged 68 Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death. He is also remembered for writing the best-known version of the story of the three bears.
• 1774 Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca -- Russia dominant The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (1774), ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774, is the most damaging diplomatic defeat in Ottoman history before the 19th century. Russia gains the Crimea (formally in 1783), access to the Black Sea, and -- crucially -- the right to protect Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire, giving the Tsar a permanent pretext for interference in Ottoman internal affairs. Catherine the Great formulates the 'Greek Project' -- the partition of Ottoman Europe and restoration of a Byzantine Empire under Russian patronage. The Black Sea ceases to be an Ottoman lake.