1753
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| Gregorian calendar | 1753 MDCCLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2506 |
| Armenian calendar | 1202 ԹՎ ՌՄԲ |
| Chinese calendar | 4449 – 4450 壬申 – 癸酉 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1745 – 1746 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5513 – 5514 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1808 – 1809 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1675 – 1676 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4854 – 4855 |
| Iranian calendar | 1131 – 1132 |
| Islamic calendar | 1166 – 1167 |
1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).
[edit] Events
- January 1 - Britain and its colonies adopt the idea that 1st January should be New Year's Day, following adoption of the Gregorian calendar in September 1752. The concept was first conceived in 1582, but suffered from slow public adoption.
- January 13 - Sentenced conspirators of the Tavora affair are executed
- January 29 - After a month's absence, Elizabeth Canning returns to her mother's home in London and claims that she was abducted. Following criminal trial causes uproar.
- April 5 – Founding charter of the British Museum
- October 31 - Virginia Lieut. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie commissions 21-year-old militia Maj. George Washington to dissuade the French from occupying the Ohio Country. Seven Years' War, first global conflict, ensues.
- Sweden adopts Gregorian calendar
- British parliament extends citizenship to Jews
- Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus on 1st May, adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants
- James Lind writes A Treatise of the Scurvy
- Tobias Smollett writes Ferdinand Count Fathom
- Robert Wallace writes On the Numbers of Man
[edit] Births
- February 12 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (died 1798)
- February 20 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (died 1815)
- March 8 - William Roscoe, English writer (died 1831)
- March 9 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (died 1800)
- March 26 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (died 1814)
- May 8 - Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican Catholic priest and revolutionary (died 1811)
- May 13 - Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (died 1823)
- July 9 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (died 1825)
- August 10 - Edmund Randolph, American politician (died 1813)
- August 12 - Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (died 1828)
- September 10 - John Soane, British architect (died 1837)
- November 6 - Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (died 1823)
- December 3 - Samuel Crompton, English inventor (died 1827)
- Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (died 1784)
- Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (died 1821)
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (born 1660)
- January 14 - George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (born 1685)
- August 6 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (born 1711)
- August 19 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer (born 1687)
- December 15 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (born 1694)
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