1753
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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.
- 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
Births
- March 8 – William Roscoe, English writer (d. 1831)
- 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 mathematician (d. 1823)
- 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)
Deaths
- January 11 – Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (b. 1660)
- January 14 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
- August 19 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer (b. 1687)
- Jacques Aubert, French violinist and composer (b. 1689)
- Richard Boyle Burlington, Anglo-Irish architectural patron and architect (b. 1685)
- Gottfried Silbermann, German organ builder and harpsichord maker (b. 1683)
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