1753

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s
Years:	1750 1751 1752 - 1753 - 1754 1755 1756

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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 1 – Minimum date value for a datetime field in SQL Server due to it being the first full year after Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar.
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 the Gregorian calendar.
April 5 – The founding charter of the British Museum is enacted.
May 1 – Species Plantarum is published by Linnaeus (adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants).

October 31 – Virginia Lieut. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie commissions 21-year-old militia Maj. George Washington to dissuade the French from occupying the Ohio Country. The Seven Years' War, the first global conflict, ensues.

The British Parliament extends citizenship to Jews.
James Lind writes A Treatise of the Scurvy.
The Cramer family starts a brewing operation including the current major brand Warsteiner.

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)
April 3 – Simon Willard, celebrated American horologist (d. 1848)
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)
November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
December 3 – Samuel Crompton, English inventor (d. 1827)
date unknown
- Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (d. 1784)
- Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (d. 1821)

January 11 – Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (b. 1660)
January 14 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
January 23 – Anne, Duchess of Maine (b. 1676)
February 16 – Giacomo Facco, composer (b. 1676)
May 23 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, dramatist (b. 1705)
June 7 – Archibald Cameron of Locheil, last Jacobite to be executed for treason (b. 1707)
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)

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