1754

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1720s  1730s  1740s  – 1750s –  1760s  1770s  1780s
Years:	1751 1752 1753 – 1754 – 1755 1756 1757

1754 Media

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  Marie Isabelle de Rohan, Duchess of Tallard died 5 January

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  Lord Archibald Hamilton died 5 April

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  Maria Teresa Felicitas d'Este died 30 April

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  Carl Georg Siöblad died 1 September

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  Safdar Jang died 5 October

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  Mahmud I died 13 December

1754 (MDCCLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1754th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 754th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1754, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

• June 19 – The Albany Convention of New England Colonies proposes an American Union
• July – Columbia University founded as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. The college was originally in Lower Manhattan. Instruction was suspended in 1776 and the school would be reopened in 1784 as Columbia College. With the college's growth in the 19th Century, it would be renamed Columbia University in 1896.
• 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.

Births

• September 9 – William Bligh, Captain of the Bounty, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1817)