1753
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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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| Gregorian calendar | 1753 MDCCLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2506 |
| Armenian calendar | 1202 ԹՎ ՌՄԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6503 |
| Bengali calendar | 1160 |
| Berber calendar | 2703 |
| British Regnal year | 26 Geo. 2 – 27 Geo. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2297 |
| Burmese calendar | 1115 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7261–7262 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4449 or 4389 — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4450 or 4390 |
| Coptic calendar | 1469–1470 |
| Discordian calendar | 2919 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1745–1746 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5513–5514 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1809–1810 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1675–1676 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4854–4855 |
| Holocene calendar | 11753 |
| Igbo calendar | 753–754 |
| Iranian calendar | 1131–1132 |
| Islamic calendar | 1166–1167 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōreki 3 (宝暦３年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4086 |
| Minguo calendar | 159 before ROC 民前159年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2295–2296 |
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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–June
- January 1 – Minimum date value for a datetime field in SQL Server (up to 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 by skipping the 11 days difference between it and the Julian calendar and letting February 17 be followed directly by March 1.
- March 17 – First official Saint Patrick's Day.
- 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–December
- 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.
Date unknown
- 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"
Births
- 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)
Deaths
- January 11 – Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (b. 1660)
- January 14 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
- January 23 – Anne Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon (b. 1676)
- February 16 – Giacomo Facco, composer (b. 1676)
- May 23 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, dramatist (b. 1705)
- June 7 – Archibald Cameron of Locheil, last Jacobite to be executed for treason (b. 1707)
- June 10 – Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt, German architect (b. 1678)
- August 6 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
- August 19 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer (b. 1687)
- December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)
- December 25 – Godolphin Arabian, thoroughbred stallion (b. c.1724)