1754

Years:
1751 1752 1753 - 1754 - 1755 1756 1757

Decades:
1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s

Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

List of state leaders in 1754
List of religious leaders in 1754

Events

June 19 - The Albany Convention of New England Colonies proposes an American Union
Duke of Saxony takes the Colditz Castle to his own use
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud I (1730-1754) to Osman III (1754-1757)
Beginning of the French and Indian War in North America.
Britain and its colonies adopted a new Marriage Act that formulated many of the rules of modern marriage.

February 2 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, politician (died 1838)
March 17 - Madame Roland (Jeanne Marie Manon Philipon), French politician (died 1793)
March 23 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (died 1802)
June 4 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, German Scientific Editor, Astronomer ( died 1832)
July 11 - Thomas Bowdler, English physician (died 1825)
August 2 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect (died 1825)
August 21 - William Murdoch, inventor (died 1839)
August 23 - King Louis XVI of France (died 1793)
September 9 - William Bligh, English sailor (died 1817)
September 26 - Joseph Proust, French chemist (died 1826)
October 1 - Emperor Paul I of Russia (died 1801)
December 24 - George Crabbe, English poet (died 1832)
Jacques Pierre Brissot, French politician (died 1795)
Vicente Martin y Soler, Spanish composer (died 1806)
Richard Martin, founder of the RSPCA (died 1834)
Usman dan Fodio, African Islamic theologan and Hausa leader (died 1817)

January 28 - Ludvig Holberg, Danish dramatist and writer (born 1684)
February 13 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (born 1683)
March 6 - Henry Pelham, British Prime Minister (born 1696)
April 9 - Christan Wolff, German philosopher, mathematician and scientist (born 1679)
October 8 - Henry Fielding, English novelist (born 1707)
November 27 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (born 1667)


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