1753
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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
| Gregorian calendar | 1753 MDCCLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2506 |
| Armenian calendar | 1202 ԹՎ ՌՄԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -91 – -90 |
| Berber calendar | 2703 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2297 |
| Burmese calendar | 1115 |
| Chinese calendar | 4389/4449-11-27 ( 壬申年十一月廿七日) — to — 4390/4450-12-8( 癸酉年十二月初八日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1469 – 1470 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1745 – 1746 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5513 – 5514 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1808 – 1809 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1675 – 1676 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4854 – 4855 |
| Holocene calendar | 11753 |
| Iranian calendar | 1131 – 1132 |
| Islamic calendar | 1166 – 1167 |
| Japanese calendar | Hōreki 3 (宝暦3年) |
| Korean calendar | 4086 |
| 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
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)