1753

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 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature ( Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – Great Britain –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1753 (MDCCLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1753

January - June

• 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. The following criminal trial causes uproar.
• March 1 - Sweden adopts Gregorian calendar.
• April 5 - Founding charter of the British Museum is enacted.

July - December

• October 31 - Virginia Lieut. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie commissions 21-year-old militia Maj. George Washington to dissuade the French from occupying the Ohio Country. Seven Years' War, the first global conflict, ensues.

Undated

• 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.
• Cramer family starts brewing operation including the current major brand Warsteiner

Ongoing

• Samuel Johnson is still writing A Dictionary of the English Language begun in 1746.
• Revolt of the Comuneros (New Granada)

Births

1753 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1753 MDCCLIII
Ab urbe condita	2506
Armenian calendar	1202 ԹՎ ՌՄԲ
Assyrian calendar	6503
Bahá'í calendar	-91–-90
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	壬申年十一月廿七日 (4389/4449-11-27) — to — 癸酉年十二月初八日 (4390/4450-12-8)
Coptic calendar	1469–1470
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
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	753–754
Iranian calendar	1131–1132
Islamic calendar	1166–1167
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 3 (宝暦3年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4086
Minguo calendar	159 before ROC 民前159年
Thai solar calendar	2296

• February 12 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (died 1798)
• February 20 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (died 1815)
• March 8 - William Roscoe, English writer (died 1831)
• March 9 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (died 1800)
• March 26 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (died 1814)
• April 3 - Simon Willard, celebrated American horologist (died 1848)
• May 8 - Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican Catholic priest and revolutionary (died 1811)
• May 13 - Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (died 1823)
• July 9 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (died 1825)
• August 10 - Edmund Randolph, American politician (died 1813)
• August 12 - Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (died 1828)
• September 10 - John Soane, British architect (died 1837)
• November 6 - Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (died 1823)
• December 3 - Samuel Crompton, English inventor (died 1827)
• date unknown
  • Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (died 1784)
  • Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (died 1821)

Deaths

• January 11 - Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (born 1660)
• January 14 - George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (born 1685)
• January 23 - Anne, Duchess of Maine (born 1676)
• February 16 - Giacomo Facco, composer (born 1676)
• May 23 - Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, dramatist (born 1705)
• June 7 - Archibald Cameron of Locheil (b. 1707) (last Jacobite to be executed for treason)
• August 6 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (born 1711)
• August 19 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer (born 1687)
• December 15 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (born 1694)