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Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1754


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Birthdays
  • January 24 - Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
  • January 30 - John Lansing, Jr.
  • June 4 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach
  • June 16 - Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir national hero
  • August 18 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat
  • December 24 - George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (d. 1832)


Deaths
  • May 14 - Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer (b. 1692)
  • May 23 - John Wood, the Elder
  • June 2 - Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
  • October 4 - Tanacharison, Catawba Indian chief
  • October 8 - Henry Fielding, English author (b. 1707)
  • October 28 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
  • December 12 - Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (b. 1701)

Events
  • January 28 - Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
  • May 28 - French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.
  • July 3 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
  • July 4 - French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.


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