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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years: 1749 1750 1751 1752 1753 - 1754 - 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759
Events
- 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.
Year in topic
- 1754 in literature
- 1754 in music
- 1754 in science
Births
- February 2 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, politician (died 1838)
- March 17 - Madame Roland (Jeanne Marie Manon Philipon), French politician (died 1793)
- 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)
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 Woolf, German philosopher, mathematician and scientist (born 1679)
- October 8 - Henry Fielding, English novelist (born 1707)
- November 27 - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (born 1667)
Monarchs/Presidents
- China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
- France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
- Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
- Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
- Russia - Elizabeth Empress of Russia (reigned from 1741 to January 5, 1762)
- Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)
- Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)
