1753

Years:
1750 1751 1752 - 1753 - 1754 1755 1756
Decades:
1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s
Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
1753 in topic:
Arts
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Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
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1753 was a Common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar).

Events

January 1 - Britain and its colonies adopt the idea that 1st January should be New Year's Day, following adoption of the Gregorian calendar in September 1752. The concept was first conceived in 1582, but suffered from slow public adoption.
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.
April 5 - Founding charter of the British Museum

Sweden adopts Gregorian calendar
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

February 12 - François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)
February 20 - Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
March 8 - William Roscoe, English writer (d. 1831)
March 9 - Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
March 26 - Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
May 8 - Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican Catholic priest and revolutionary (d. 1811)
May 13 - Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
July 9 - William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
August 10 - Edmund Randolph, American politician (d. 1813)
August 12 - Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (d. 1828)
September 10 - John Soane, British architect (d. 1837)
December 3 - Samuel Crompton, English inventor (d. 1827)
Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (d. 1784)

January 11 - Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (b. 1660)
January 14 - George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
August 6 - Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
August 19 - Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer (b. 1687)
December 15 - Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)