Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1720s  1730s  1740s  – 1750s –  1760s  1770s  1780s
Years:	1750 1751 1752 – 1753 – 1754 1755 1756

1753 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – Great Britain –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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).

Contents 1 Events of 1753 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Ongoing 3 Births 4 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1753

[edit] January–June

• January 1 – Minimum date value for a datetime field in SQL Server 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.
• 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).

[edit] 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. The Seven Years' War, the first global conflict, ensues.

[edit] Undated

• James Lind writes A Treatise of the Scurvy.
• The Cramer family starts a brewing operation including the current major brand Warsteiner.
• Marriage Act 1753 (Parliament of Great Britain)

[edit] Ongoing

• Samuel Johnson is still writing A Dictionary of the English Language begun in 1746.
• Revolt of the Comuneros (New Granada)

[edit] Births

1753 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1753 MDCCLIII
Ab urbe condita	2506
Armenian calendar	1202 ԹՎ ՌՄԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-91 – -90
Berber calendar	2703
Buddhist calendar	2297
Burmese calendar	1115
Byzantine calendar	7261 – 7262
Chinese calendar	壬申年十一月廿七日 (4389/4449-11-27) — to — 癸酉年十二月初八日 (4390/4450-12-8)
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 3 (宝暦3年)
Korean calendar	4086
Thai solar calendar	2296
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• 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 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
  • Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (d. 1784)
  • Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (d. 1821)

[edit] Deaths

• January 11 – Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (b. 1660)
• January 14 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
• January 23 – Anne, Duchess of Maine (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)
• 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)

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