1753
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Template:C18YearInTopicX Year 1753 (MDCCLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1753
[edit] January - June
- 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.
- March 1 - Sweden adopts Gregorian calendar.
- April 5 - Founding charter of the British Museum is enacted.
[edit] July - December
- 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, the first global conflict, ensues.
[edit] Undated
- British Parliament extends citizenship to Jews.
- Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus on 1 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.
- Samuel Johnson is still writing A Dictionary of the English Language begun in 1746.
- Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod, to ring a bell when struck, following the 1752 kite/key tests with his 21-year-old son.
- Cramer family starts brewing operation including the current major brand Warsteiner
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1753 MDCCLIII
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| Ab urbe condita | 2506 |
| Armenian calendar | 1202 ԹՎ ՌՄԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -91 – -90 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2297 |
| Coptic calendar | 1469 – 1470 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1745 – 1746 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5513 – 5514 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1808 – 1809 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1675 – 1676 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4854 – 4855 |
| Holocene calendar | 11753 |
| Iranian calendar | 1131 – 1132 |
| Islamic calendar | 1166 – 1167 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōreki
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2413 (皇紀2413年) |
| Julian calendar | 1798 |
| Korean calendar | 4086 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2296 |
- 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, 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)
- date unknown
- Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (died 1784)
- Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (died 1821)
- See also 1753 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 11 - Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (born 1660)
- January 14 - George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (born 1685)
- January 23 - Anne (born 1676)
- May 23 - Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, dramatist (born 1705)
- 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, English architect (born 1694)
[edit] People of the year 1753 at Familypedia
10 people were born in 1753
4 children were born to the 3 women born in 1753
4 people died in 1753
408 people lived in 1753
[edit] Events of the year 1753 at Familypedia
9 people were married in 1753.
There were 0 military battles in 1753.
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