1754

1754

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

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Year in topic
3 Births
4 Deaths
5 Monarchs/Presidents

Events

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)
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)

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 Woolf, German philosopher, mathematician and scientist (born 1679)
October 8 - Henry Fielding, English novelist (born 1707)
November 27 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (born 1667)

China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
Russia - Elizabeth Empress of Russia (reigned from 1741 to January 5, 1762)
Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)
Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)