1754

Years: 1751 1752 1753 - 1754 - 1755 1756 1757

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

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1754 in various calendars Gregorian calendar 1754 MDCCLIV Ab urbe condita 2507 Armenian calendar 1203 ԹՎ ՌՄԳ Assyrian calendar 6504 Balinese saka calendar 1675–1676 Bengali calendar 1160–1161 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) 4451 or 4244     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4452 or 4245 Coptic calendar 1470–1471 Discordian calendar 2920 Ethiopian calendar 1746–1747 Hebrew calendar 5514–5515 Hindu calendars  - Vikram Samvat 1810–1811  - Shaka Samvat 1675–1676  - Kali Yuga 4854–4855 Holocene calendar 11754 Igbo calendar 754–755 Iranian calendar 1132–1133 Islamic calendar 1167–1168 Japanese calendar Hōreki 4 (宝暦４年) Javanese calendar 1679–1680 Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days Korean calendar 4087 Minguo calendar 158 before ROC 民前158年 Nanakshahi calendar 286 Thai solar calendar 2296–2297 Tibetan calendar ཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་ (female Water-Bird) 1880 or 1499 or 727     — to — ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Wood-Dog) 1881 or 1500 or 728 Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1754.

1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).

Events

• June 19 - The Albany Convention of New England Colonies proposes an American Union
• July - Columbia University founded as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. The college was originally located in Lower Manhattan. Instruction was suspended in 1776 and the school would be reopened in 1784 as Columbia College. With the college's growth in the 19th Century, it would be renamed Columbia University in 1896.
• 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.

Births

• January 15 - Richard Martin, Irish founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1834)
• January 30 - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
• February 2 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838)
• 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)
• April 9 - Christian Wolff, German philosopher (b. 1679)
• June 2 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
• June 4 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, German scientific editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
• July 11 - Thomas Bowdler, English physician (d. 1825)
• August 2 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (d. 1825)
• 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 26 - Joseph Proust, French chemist (d. 1826)
• October 1 - Emperor Paul I of Russia (d. 1801)
• December 24 - George Crabbe, English poet (d. 1832)
• Jacques Pierre Brissot, French politician (d. 1795)
• Vicente Martin y Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1806)
• Usman dan Fodio, Nigerian Islamic theologan (d. 1817)

Deaths

• January 28 - Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian dramatist and writer (b. 1684)
• February 13 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (b. 1683)
• February 16 - Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1763)
• March 6 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1696)
• April 9 - Christan Wolff, German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (b. 1679)
• April 15 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
• July 4 - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (b. 1680)
• October 8 - Henry Fielding, English novelist (b. 1707)
• November 27 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)