1753

This article is about the year 1753. For the number, see 1753 (number).

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 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1753 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1753 MDCCLIII
Ab urbe condita	2506
Armenian calendar	1202 ԹՎ ՌՄԲ
Assyrian calendar	6503
Bengali calendar	1160
Berber calendar	2703
British Regnal year	26 Geo. 2 – 27 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2297
Burmese calendar	1115
Byzantine calendar	7261–7262
Chinese calendar	壬申年 (Water Monkey) 4449 or 4389     — to — 癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4450 or 4390
Coptic calendar	1469–1470
Discordian calendar	2919
Ethiopian calendar	1745–1746
Hebrew calendar	5513–5514
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1809–1810
- Shaka Samvat	1675–1676
- Kali Yuga	4854–4855
Holocene calendar	11753
Igbo calendar	753–754
Iranian calendar	1131–1132
Islamic calendar	1166–1167
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 3 (宝暦３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4086
Minguo calendar	159 before ROC 民前159年
Thai solar calendar	2295–2296

1753 (MDCCLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Julian calendar, the 1753rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 753rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 53rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1750s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1753 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

• January 1 – Minimum date value for a datetime field in an SQL Server (up to version 2005) 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 by skipping the 11 days difference between it and the Julian calendar and letting February 17 be followed directly by March 1.
• March 17 – First official Saint Patrick's Day.

• 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).
• June 7 – The British Museum is established in London by Act of Parliament.

July–December

• July – The Parliament of Great Britain passes Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act "for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage" in England and Wales; it comes into effect in 1754.
• July 7 – The Parliament of Great Britain's Jewish Naturalization Act receives royal assent, allowing naturalization to Jews; it is repealed in 1754.
• October 31 – Virginia Lieut. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie commissions 21-year-old militia Maj. George Washington to dissuade the French from occupying the Ohio Country.

Date unknown

• James Lind writes A Treatise of the Scurvy.
• Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Palmyra; otherwise Tedmor in the desart in English and French, making the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra known to the West.
• The Cramer family starts a brewing operation at Warstein in North-Rhine Westphalia, origin of the Warsteiner brand.
• Coining of the term "anthropomorphism"

Births

• 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 Kléber, French general (d. 1800)
• March 13 – Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, Duchess of Orléans, heiress, wife of Philippe Égalité (d. 1821)
• March 26 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
• April 3 – Simon Willard, American horologist (d. 1848)
• May 8 – Phillis Wheatley African American poet
• May 13 – Lazare Carnot, French general, politician and mathematician (d. 1823)
• July 9 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, British admiral, 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, English architect (d. 1837)
• October 27 – Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette, French general (d. 1794)
• November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
• December 3 – Samuel Crompton, English inventor (d. 1827)
• date unknown
  • Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (d. 1821)
  • John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and one of the earliest settlers of Kentucky (d. 1825)
  • Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (d. 1784)

Deaths

• January 11 – Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (b. 1660)
• January 14 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
• January 23 – Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, French royal princess and saloniste (b. 1676)
• February 16 – Giacomo Facco, Italian composer (b. 1676)
• May 23 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, Polish dramatist (b. 1705)
• June 7 – Archibald Cameron of Locheil, last Scottish Jacobite to be executed for treason (b. 1707)
• June 10 – Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt, German architect (b. 1678)
• 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)
• December 25 – Godolphin Arabian, thoroughbred stallion (b. c.1724)