1753

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1720s 1730s 1740s – 1750s – 1760s 1770s 1780s
Years:	1750 1751 1752 – 1753 – 1754 1755 1756

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Year 1753 (MDCCLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January 1 – Minimum date value for a datetime field in SQL Server (up version 2005) due to it being the first full year after Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar.
January 29 – After a month's absence, Elizabeth Canning returns to her mother's home in London and claims that she was abducted. The following criminal trial causes uproar.
March 1 – Sweden adopts the Gregorian calendar.
April 5 – The founding charter of the British Museum is enacted.
May 1 – Species Plantarum is published by Linnaeus (adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants).

July 7 – Royal assent to the Jewish Naturalization Act: The British Parliament extends citizenship to Jews
October 31 – Virginia Lieut. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie commissions 21-year-old militia Maj. George Washington to dissuade the French from occupying the Ohio Country.

James Lind writes A Treatise of the Scurvy.
Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Palmyra; otherwise Tedmor in the desart in English and French, making the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra known to the West.
The Cramer family starts a brewing operation including the current major brand Warsteiner.
Marriage Act 1753 (Parliament of Great Britain)
Coining of the term "anthropomorphism"

February 12 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)
February 20 – Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
March 8 – William Roscoe, English writer (d. 1831)
March 9 – Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
March 13 – Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, great heiress, wife of Philippe Égalité (d. 1821)
March 26 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
April 3 – Simon Willard, celebrated American horologist (d. 1848)
May 8 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican Catholic priest and revolutionary (d. 1811)
May 13 – Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
July 9 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
August 10 – Edmund Randolph, American politician (d. 1813)
August 12 – Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (d. 1828)
September 10 – John Soane, British architect (d. 1837)
November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
December 3 – Samuel Crompton, English inventor (d. 1827)
date unknown
- Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (d. 1821)
- John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and one of the earliest settlers of Kentucky (d. 1825)
- Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (d. 1784)