Today in History for Year 1754

Months in Year 1754: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 11 of 11

Jan 4th - Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)
Jan 15th - Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
Jan 28th - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity
Mar 8th - Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain
Mar 18th - Duke of Newcastle becomes English premier
May 9th - 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
May 28th - Battle of Jumonville Glen: forces led by George Washington kill French Canadian officer Joseph Coulon de Jumonville
Jun 19th - Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians
Jul 3rd - George Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
Jul 4th - George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France
Jul 7th - Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 39 of 39

Jan 15th - Richard Martin, Irish animal rights activist (d. 1834)
Jan 24th - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
Jan 29th - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
Jan 30th - John Lansing, Jr., American statesman (d. 1829)
Feb 13th - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838)
Feb 17th - Jan Jachym Kopriva, composer
Feb 17th - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
Feb 19th - Vincenzo Monti, Italian poet/translator (Al Signor di Montgolfier)
Mar 4th - Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
Mar 4th - Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer
Mar 15th - Silvestro Palma, composer
Mar 23rd - Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)
Apr 9th - Antonio Frantisek Becvarovsky, composer
Apr 9th - Pieter Paulus, Dutch lawyer/CEO (National Convention)
May 2nd - Vicente Martin y Soler, composer
May 10th - Asmus Jakob Carstens, painter
May 12th - Franz Anton Hoffmeister, composer
May 15th - Pierre Dutillieu, composer
May 20th - Hans Gram, composer
May 23rd - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter (Napoleon)
May 24th - Giacomo Conti, composer
Jun 4th - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
Jun 16th - Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir national hero, poet (d. 1800)
Jul 11th - Thomas Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare
Jul 20th - Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher (d. 1836)
Washington D.C. Architect Pierre Charles L'Enfant (Aug 2nd) Aug 2nd - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Anet France, architect laid out Wash DC, (d. 1825)
Aug 18th - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
Aug 21st - William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
Aug 21st - Banastre Tarleton, British soldier and politician (d. 1833)
Aug 23rd - Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined
Aug 28th - Peter Winter, composer
Sep 9th - William Bligh, nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty)
Sep 19th - John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
Oct 16th - Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804-07) (d. 1844)
Nov 26th - Georg Forster, writer
Dec 2nd - William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
Dec 7th - Jack Jouett, American patriot
Dec 9th - Etienne Ozi, composer
Dec 24th - George Crabbe, Aldeburgh England, poet (Everlasting Mercy)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 26 of 26

Jan 10th - Daniel Raap, Dutch porcelain salesman/politician, dies at about 51
Jan 10th - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)
Jan 28th - Ludvig Holberg, Danish lawyer/writer (Hendrig og Pernille), dies at 69
Feb 5th - Nicolaas S Cruquius, hydraulic engineer, (Haarlemmermeer), dies at 75
Feb 16th - Richard Mead, physician, dies
Mar 6th - Henry Pelham, English politician (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57
Mar 8th - Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Sp min of Foreign affairs, dies
Mar 23rd - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
Apr 2nd - Thomas Carte, English historian (b. 1686)
Apr 9th - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75
Apr 15th - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (b. 1676)
May 14th - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
May 16th - Giovanni Carlo Maria Clari, composer, dies at 76
May 23rd - John Wood, architect/town planner, dies
Jun 2nd - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
Jun 7th - Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square), dies at 52
Jun 22nd - Nicholas Siret, composer, dies at 91
Jul 4th - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author (b. 1680)
Oct 4th - Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
Oct 8th - Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones), dies at 47
Oct 28th - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
Nov 9th - Johann Christoph Fravenholtz, composer, dies at 70
Nov 12th - Jacob de Wit, Amsterdam painter/decorater, dies at 58
Nov 27th - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
Dec 12th - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)
Dec 14th - Mahmud I, sultan of Turkey, dies at 58