1754 Calendar
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1754 Historical Event(s)
January 28, 1754
– Horace Walpole coins the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann.
May 28, 1754
– 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, 1754
– French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.
July 4, 1754
– French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
Who Were Born On 1754?
January 24, 1754
– Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
March 23, 1754
– Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802)
June 4, 1754
– Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
June 20, 1754
– Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1832)
August 18, 1754
– François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
August 23, 1754
– King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
September 19, 1754
– John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
November 2, 1754
– Gaspard de Bernard de Marigny, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1794)
December 2, 1754
– William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)
December 24, 1754
– George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist (d. 1832)