1754

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

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.
Surveyor William Churton lays out what will become the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina. The town is named Corbin Town for Francis Corbin, a member of the North Carolina governor's council. Corbin Town is renamed Childsburgh in 1759 and finally Hillsborough in 1766.

January 28 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.

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.

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 4 - Benjamin Waterhouse, Cambridge physician and medical professor (smallpox vaccine pioneer) (d. 1846)
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)
May 31 - Dominique Catherine de Pérignon, Marshal of France (d. 1818)
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)
Usman dan Fodio, Nigerian Islamic theologan (d. 1817)
William Drennan, Northern Irish poet (d. 1820)

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