Year 1753 (MDCCLIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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January–June

• January 1 – Minimum date value for a datetime field in SQL Server (up version 2005) due to it being the first full year after Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar.
• January 29 – After a month's absence, Elizabeth Canning returns to her mother's home in London and claims that she was abducted. The following criminal trial causes uproar.
• March 1 – Sweden adopts the Gregorian calendar.
• March 17 – first official Saint Patrick's Day
• April 5 – The founding charter of the British Museum is enacted.
• May 1 – Species Plantarum is published by Linnaeus (adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants).

July–December

• July 7 – Royal assent to the Jewish Naturalization Act: The British Parliament extends citizenship to Jews
• October 31 – Virginia Lieut. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie commissions 21-year-old militia Maj. George Washington to dissuade the French from occupying the Ohio Country.

Date unknown

• James Lind writes A Treatise of the Scurvy.
• Robert Wood publishes The ruins of Palmyra; otherwise Tedmor in the desart in English and French, making the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra known to the West.
• The Cramer family starts a brewing operation including the current major brand Warsteiner.
• Marriage Act 1753 (Parliament of Great Britain)
• Coining of the term "anthropomorphism"

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Births

• February 12 – Fran ois-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)
• February 20 – Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
• March 8 – William Roscoe, English writer (d. 1831)
• March 9 – Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
• March 13 – Louise Marie Ad la de de Bourbon, great heiress, wife of Philippe galit (d. 1821)
• March 26 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
• April 3 – Simon Willard, celebrated American horologist (d. 1848)
• May 8 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican Catholic priest and revolutionary (d. 1811)
• May 13 – Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)
• July 9 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
• August 10 – Edmund Randolph, American politician (d. 1813)
• August 12 – Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (d. 1828)
• September 10 – John Soane, British architect (d. 1837)
• November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
• December 3 – Samuel Crompton, English inventor (d. 1827)
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  • Francesc Antoni de la Due a y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (d. 1821)
  • John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and one of the earliest settlers of Kentucky (d. 1825)
  • Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (d. 1784)

Deaths

• January 11 – Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (b. 1660)
• January 14 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)
• January 23 – Anne Louise B n dicte de Bourbon (b. 1676)
• February 16 – Giacomo Facco, composer (b. 1676)
• May 23 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwi owa, dramatist (b. 1705)
• June 7 – Archibald Cameron of Locheil, last Jacobite to be executed for treason (b. 1707)
• August 6 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)
• August 19 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer (b. 1687)
• December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)
• December 25 – Godolphin Arabian, thoroughbred stallion (b. c.1724)

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