1754
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1720s 1730s 1740s – 1750s – 1760s 1770s 1780s |
| Years: | 1751 1752 1753 – 1754 – 1755 1756 1757 |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1754 MDCCLIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2507 |
| Armenian calendar | 1203 ԹՎ ՌՄԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6504 |
| Bengali calendar | 1161 |
| Berber calendar | 2704 |
| British Regnal year | 27 Geo. 2 – 28 Geo. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2298 |
| Burmese calendar | 1116 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7262–7263 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4450 or 4390 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4451 or 4391 |
| Coptic calendar | 1470–1471 |
| Discordian calendar | 2920 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1746–1747 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5514–5515 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1810–1811 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1676–1677 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4855–4856 |
| Holocene calendar | 11754 |
| Igbo calendar | 754–755 |
| Iranian calendar | 1132–1133 |
| Islamic calendar | 1167–1168 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōreki 4 (宝暦４年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4087 |
| Minguo calendar | 158 before ROC 民前158年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2296–2297 |
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Year 1754 (MDCCLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
- February 25 – Guatemalan Sergeant Major Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion to fight British pirates that are reportedly disembarking on the coasts of Petén (modern-day Belize) and sacking the nearby towns.[1]
- March 25 – The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 comes into force in England and Wales, placing marriage in that jurisdiction on a statutory basis for the first time.
- April 30 – Guatemalan Sergeant Mayor Melchor de Mencos y Varón and his troops defeat the British pirates in the battle of San Felipe and the Cobá Lagoon.[2]
- May 28 – The Battle of Jumonville Glen begins the French and Indian War in North America: 22-year-old George Washington leads a company of militia from the Colony of Virginia in an ambush on a force of 35 French Canadians.
- June 19 – The Albany Congress of New England Colonies proposes an American Union.
July–December
- July – Columbia University is founded as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. The college is originally located in Lower Manhattan. Instruction is suspended in 1776 and the school reopens in 1784 as Columbia College. With the college's growth in the 19th Century, it is renamed Columbia University in 1896.
- July 3 – French and Indian War: Battle of Fort Necessity – George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
- December 13 – Osman III (1754–1757) succeeds Mahmud I as Ottoman Emperor.
Date unknown
- Surveyor William Churton lays out what will become the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina. The town is named Corbin Town for Francis Corbin, a member of the North Carolina governor's council. Corbin Town is renamed Childsburgh in 1759 and finally Hillsborough in 1766.
Births
- January 15
- Richard Martin, Irish founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1834)
- Jacques Pierre Brissot, French politician (d. 1795)
- January 30 – John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
- February 13 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838)
- February 17 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
- March 4 – Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician and medical professor (smallpox vaccine pioneer) (d. 1846)
- March 17 – Madame Roland (Jeanne Marie Manon Philipon), French politician (d. 1793)
- March 23 – Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)
- May 23 – William Drennan, Irish physician, poet and radical politician (d. 1820)
- May 31 – Dominique Catherine de Pérignon, Marshal of France (d. 1818)
- June 4 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, German scientific editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
- June 8 – Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish poet, feminist and culture personality (d. 1817)
- July 11 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician (d. 1825)
- August 9 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (d. 1825)
- August 18 – François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
- August 21 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
- August 23 – King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
- September 9 – William Bligh, English sailor (d. 1817)
- September 20 – Emperor Paul I of Russia (d. 1801)
- September 26 – Joseph Proust, French chemist (d. 1826)
- November 19 – Pedro Romero, Spanish torero (d. 1839)
- December 7 – Jack Jouett, American politician (d. 1822)
- December 9 – Etienne Ozi, French composer (d. 1813)
- December 24 – George Crabbe, English poet (d. 1832)
- Date unknown – Usman dan Fodio, Nigerian Islamic theologian (d. 1817)
Deaths
- January 10 – Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)
- January 28 – Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian dramatist and writer (b. 1684)
- February 2 – William Benson, English architect and self-serving Whig place-holder (b. 1682)
- February 16 – Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1673)
- March 6 – Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1696)
- March 23 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
- April 2 – Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
- April 9 – Christian Wolff, German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1679)
- April 15 – Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
- May 14 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
- May 23 – John Wood, the Elder, English architect (b. 1704)
- June 2 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
- July 4 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (b. 1680)
- October 4 – Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief (b. c. 1700)
- October 8 – Henry Fielding, English novelist (b. 1707)
- November 27 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
- December 12 – Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
- December 13 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1696)
References
Further reading
- John Blair; J. Willoughby Rosse (1856). "1754". Blair's Chronological Tables. London: H.G. Bohn – via Hathi Trust.