Year 1754 (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
July - December
Undated
- Surveyor William Churton lays out what will become the county seat of Orange County, 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 in 1766.
Ongoing
Births
- January 15
- 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 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
- See also Category: 1754 births.
Deaths
- 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, 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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