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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 1 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

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)

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