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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).

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Events of 1753

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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. 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''.

★ Tobias Smollett writes ''Ferdinand Count Fathom''.

★ Robert Wallace writes ''On the Numbers of Man''.

★ Samuel Johnson is still writing ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' begun in 1746.

★ Benjamin Franklin invents the lightning rod, to ring a bell when struck, following the 1752 kite/key tests with his 21-year-old son.

★ Cramer family starts brewing operation including the current major brand Warsteiner

Births

★ 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)

★ 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''

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★ Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (died 1784)

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★ Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (died 1821)
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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)

★ May 23 - Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, dramatist (born 1705)

★ 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)
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