1753

1753 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

January 1 - Britain and its colonies adopt the idea that 1st January should be New Year's Day, following adoption of the Gregorian calendar in September 1752. The concept was first conceived in 1582, but suffered from slow public adoption.
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.
April 5 – Founding charter of the British Museum

Sweden adopts Gregorian calendar
British parliament extends citizenship to Jews
Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus on 1st 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

January 11 - Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (b. 1660)
January 14 - George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
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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