1754 - Definition and Overview

Events

• June 19 - The Albany Convention of New England Colonies proposes an American Union
• Duke of Saxony takes the Colditz Castle to his own use
• 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.

Births

• February 2 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, politician (died 1838)
• March 17 - Madame Roland (Jeanne Marie Manon Philipon), French politician (died 1793)
• March 23 - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer (died 1802)
• June 4 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, German Scientific Editor, Astronomer ( died 1832)
• July 11 - Thomas Bowdler, English physician (died 1825)
• August 2 - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, architect (died 1825)
• August 21 - William Murdoch, inventor (died 1839)
• August 23 - King Louis XVI of France (died 1793)
• September 9 - William Bligh, English sailor (died 1817)
• September 26 - Joseph Proust, French chemist (died 1826)
• October 1 - Emperor Paul I of Russia (died 1801)
• December 24 - George Crabbe, English poet (died 1832)
• Jacques Pierre Brissot, French politician (died 1795)
• Vicente Martin y Soler, Spanish composer (died 1806)
• Richard Martin, founder of the RSPCA (died 1834)
• Usman dan Fodio, African Islamic theologan and Hausa leader (died 1817)

Deaths

• January 28 - Ludvig Holberg, Danish dramatist and writer (born 1684)
• February 13 - Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter (born 1683)
• March 6 - Henry Pelham, British Prime Minister (born 1696)
• April 9 - Christan Wolff, German philosopher, mathematician and scientist (born 1679)
• October 8 - Henry Fielding, English novelist (born 1707)
• November 27 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (born 1667)