1754

events

politics

• 17. April: North American colonies: The Frenchmen sell British troops from the area of the today's Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)and there away Duquesne establish.
• 29. May: With the Jumonville incident the Frenchman and Indian war in North America begin.
• 19. June - 11. July: Congress of Albany (New York): Negotiations over the relationship of the British colonies to the indianischenTrunks and the Frenchman, first attempt of a convention of the union.

science

• John CAN clay/tone recognizes the electrical influence (common with Johann Carl Wilcke).
• Joseph Black discovers the carbon dioxide.
• The Columbia university is created.

culture

• 23. October: Premiere of the opera Anacréon of Jean Philippe Rameau in Fontainebleau.
• 10. November: Premiere of the musical drama L'Issipile of Ignaz wood farmer in Mannheim.
• Establishment duke of the Anton of Ulrich museum.

born

• 14. January: Jacques PierreBrissot, French revolutionary († 1793)
• 21. January: Johann Kaspar Riesbeck, lawyer, German writer, actor and Illuminat († 1786)
• 2. February: Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French diplomat († 1838)
• 8. February: Isaac Tichenor, highest judge, governor and senator Vermonts († 1838)
• 26. February: Josef Karel Ambrož, Czech composer († 1822)
• 17. March: Jeanne Marie Roland de la Platière, French revolution airs († 1793)
• 23. March: Yuriy Vega, Slovenian mathematician in services of the imperial army († 1802)
• 9. April: Antonín František Bečvařovský, Czech composer († 1823)
• 1. May: Bernhard Heinrich Overberg, German theologian and paedagogue († 1826)
• 7. May: Joseph Joubert, French moralist († 1824)
• 12. May: Franz Anton hoping master, German composer († 1812)
• 20. May: Elisa of the Recke, Dichterin and authoress († 1833)
• 23. May: Andrea Appiani, Italian painter († 1817)
• 4. June: Franz Xaver of Zach, GermanAustrian astronomer, Geodät, mathematician, science historian and officer († 1832)
• 18. June: Anna Maria Lenngren, Swedish authoress († 1817)
• 28. June: Claude François de paint, French general († 1812)
• 8. July: Franz Troglauer, robber captain and Wilderer in north Bavaria († 1801)
• 13. July: Alois of Beckh Widmanstätten, Austrian printer († 1849)
• 20. July: Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy, French philosopher († 1836)
• 31. July: Bon Adrien Jean emergency de Moncey, French general and marshal of France († 1842)
• 23. August: Ludwig XVI., French king (1793 guillotiniert)
• 1. September: August Hermann Niemeyer, German theologian and paedagogue († 1828)
• 1. September: Heinrich Adolph Grimm, German Orientalist († 1813)
• 9. September: William Bligh, British naval officer and governor († 1817)
• 20. September: Paul I., Zar of Russia from 1796 to 1801 († 1801)
• 26. September: Joseph Louis Proust, French chemist († 1826)
• 2. October: Louis de Bonald, French statesman and philosopher († 1840)
• 6. November: Friedrich I. (King of Württemberg), king of Württemberg († 1816)
• 27. November: Johann George Adam Forster, German natural scientist and man of letters († 1794)
• 4. December: Friedrich Julius Heinrich of Soden,Writer († 1831)

• Jacques Pierre Brissot, French revolutionary and one the leader of the Girondisten
• Jean Baptiste Meusnier de la Place
• calf Hampton I., US-American great land owner, general and politician († 1835)

died

• 28. January: Ludvig getting mountain, Danish-Norwegian poet (* 1684)
• 2. February: Tilmann Joseph Godesberg, German priest and Offizial in the ore diocese Cologne (* 1690)
• 5. February: Nicolaus Samuelis Cruquius, Netherlands Wasserbauingenieur and Kartograf (* 1678)
• 6. March: Henry Pelham, British prime minister (* 1696)
• 9. April: Christian Wolff, German universal scholar and philosopher (* 1679)
• 15. April: Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician (* 1676)
• 3. May: Joachim Danielof Jauch, German engineer officer and architect (* 1688)
• 14. August: Maria Anna of Austria (Portugal), ore duchess of Austria and queen of Portugal (* 1683)
• 17. August: Hans Christoph Friedrich count von Hacke, lieutenant generaland commanders of city of Berlin (* 1699)
• 8. October: Henry falling thing, English novelist, Satiriker, dramatist, journalist and lawyer (* 1707)
• 28. October: Friedrich of Hagedorn, German poet (* 1708)
• 25. November: Johann Andreas ofFranconia Siersdorf, Generalvikar in Cologne (* 1696)
• 27. November: Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (* 1667)