1754
1754 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar).
Events June 19 - The Albany Convention of New England Colonies proposes an American Union 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. Abbé Charles-Michel de L'Epee established the first known public school for the deaf, an event that has become known as the 'birth' of deaf education.
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)
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