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Year '''1754''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDCCLIV]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] (link will display the full calendar) of the [[Gregorian calendar]] (or a [[common year starting on Saturday]] of the 11-day slower [[Julian calendar]]).
== Events that took place in 1754 ==
===January - June===
* [[January 28]] - [[Horace Walpole]], in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word ''[[serendipity]]''.
* [[February 25]] - Guatemalan Sergeant Mayor Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion to fight British pirates that were reported to have disembarked on the coasts of Petén (today Belize) and were sacking the nearby towns.<ref>[http://www.inforpressca.com/melchordemencos/historia.php Historia del Municipio de Melchor de Mencos, Petén<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[April 30 ]] - Guatemalan Sergeant Mayor Melchor de Mencos y Varón and his troops defeat the British pirates in the battle of San Felipe and the Cobá Lagoon.<ref>[http://www.prensalibre.com/pl/domingo/archivo/revistad/2006/marzo06/260306/dhistoria.shtml Revista D - PrensaLibre.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
*[[May 28]] - The [[Battle of Jumonville Glen]] begins the [[French and Indian War]] in North America.
* [[June 19]] - The [[Albany Congress]] of [[New England]] Colonies proposes an [[American Union]].
===July - December===
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* [[July]] - [[Columbia University]] founded as King's College by [[royal charter]] of [[George II of Great Britain|King George II]] of England. The college was originally located in Lower Manhattan. Instruction was suspended in [[1776]] and the school would be reopened in [[1784]] as Columbia College. With the college's growth in the 19th Century, it would be renamed Columbia University in [[1896]].
*[[December 13]] - Change of [[Ottoman Emperor|emperor]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] from [[Mahmud I]] ([[1730]]-1754) to [[Osman III]] (1754-[[1757]]).
===Undated===
* Surveyor William Churton lays out what will become the county seat of [[Orange County, North Carolina|Orange County]], [[Royal Colony of North Carolina|North Carolina]]. The town is named Corbin Town for Francis Corbin, a member of the North Carolina governor's council. Corbin Town is renamed Childsburgh in [[1759]] and finally [[Hillsborough, North Carolina|Hillsborough]] in [[1766]].
==Ongoing==
*[[Revolt of the Comuneros (New Granada)]]
* [[Samuel Johnson]] writing ''[[A Dictionary of the English Language]]'' (begun in [[1746]]).
==Births==
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* [[January 15]]
**[[Richard Martin ("Humanity Dick")|Richard Martin]], Irish founder of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (died [[1834]])
**[[Jacques Pierre Brissot]], French politician (died [[1795]])
* [[January 30]] - [[John Lansing, Jr.]], American statesman (died [[1829]])
* [[February 2]] - [[Charles Maurice de Talleyrand]], French politician (died [[1838]])
* [[March 4]] - [[Benjamin Waterhouse]], Cambridge physician and medical professor ([[smallpox]] [[vaccine]] [[Wiktionary|pioneer]]) (died [[1846]])
* [[March 17]] - [[Madame Roland]] (Jeanne Marie Manon Philipon), French politician (died [[1793]])
* [[March 23]] - Baron [[Jurij Vega]], Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (died [[1802]])
* [[May 31]] - [[Dominique Catherine de Pérignon]], [[Marshal of France]] (died [[1818]])
* [[June 4]] - [[Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach]], German scientific editor and astronomer (died [[1832]])
* [[July 11]] - [[Thomas Bowdler]], English physician (died [[1825]])
* [[August 2]] - [[Pierre Charles L'Enfant]], French architect (died 1825)
* [[August 21]] - [[William Murdoch]], Scottish 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]])
* [[september 20]] - Emperor [[Paul I of Russia]] (died [[1801]])
* [[December 24]] - [[George Crabbe]], English poet (died 1832)
*''date unknown''
**[[Usman dan Fodio]], Nigerian Islamic theologian (died [[1817]])
**[[William Drennan]], Northern Irish poet (died [[1820]])
: ''See also [[:Category: 1754 births]].''
==Deaths==
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*[[January 10]] - [[Edward Cave]], English editor and publisher (born [[1691]])
*[[January 28]] - [[Ludvig Holberg]], Norwegian dramatist and writer (born [[1684]])
*[[February 16]] - [[Richard Mead]], English physician (born [[1673]])
*[[March 6]] - [[Henry Pelham]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (born [[1696]])
*[[March 23]] - [[Johann Jakob Wettstein]], Swiss theologian (born [[1693]])
*[[April 2]] - [[Thomas Carte]], English historian (born [[1686]])
*[[April 9]] - [[Christian Wolff (philosopher)|Christian Wolff]], German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (born [[1679]])
*[[April 15]] - [[Jacopo Riccati]], Italian mathematician (born [[1676]])
*[[May 14]] - [[Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée]], French writer (born [[1692]])
*[[May 23]] - [[John Wood, the Elder]], English architect (born [[1704]])
*[[June 2]] - [[Ebenezer Erskine]], Scottish religious dissenter (born [[1680]])
*[[July 4]] - [[Philippe Néricault Destouches]], French dramatist (born [[1680]])
*[[October 4]] - [[Tanacharison]], Catawba Indian chief (born c.[[1700]])
*[[October 8]] - [[Henry Fielding]], English novelist (born [[1707]])
*[[November 27]] - [[Abraham de Moivre]], French mathematician (born [[1667]])
*[[December 12]] - [[Wu Jingzi]], Chinese writer (born [[1701]])
*[[December 13]] - [[Mahmud I]], [[Ottoman Sultan]] (born [[1696]])
: ''See also [[:Category: 1754 deaths]].''
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