1754

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Years:	1751 · 1752 · 1753 · 1754 · 1755 · 1756 · 1757

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1754 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1754 MDCCLIV
Ab urbe condita	2507
Armenian calendar	1203 ԹՎ ՌՄԳ
Assyrian calendar	6504
Bengali calendar	1161
Berber calendar	2704
British Regnal year	27 Geo. 2 – 28 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2298
Burmese calendar	1116
Byzantine calendar	7262–7263
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4450 or 4390 — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4451 or 4391
Coptic calendar	1470–1471
Discordian calendar	2920
Ethiopian calendar	1746–1747
Hebrew calendar	5514–5515
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1810–1811
- Shaka Samvat	1675–1676
- Kali Yuga	4854–4855
Holocene calendar	11754
Igbo calendar	754–755
Iranian calendar	1132–1133
Islamic calendar	1167–1168
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 4 (宝暦４年)
Javanese calendar	1679–1680
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4087
Minguo calendar	158 before ROC 民前158年
Nanakshahi calendar	286
Thai solar calendar	2296–2297

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1754 (MDCCLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) 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 1918.

Events

January 28 – Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity.
February 25 – Guatemalan Sergeant Major Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion to fight British pirates that are reportedly disembarking on the coasts of Petén (modern-day Belize) and sacking the nearby towns.^[1]
March 25 – The Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 comes into force in England and Wales, placing marriage in that jurisdiction on a statutory basis for the first time.
April 30 – Guatemalan Sergeant Mayor Melchor de Mencos y Varón and his troops defeat the British pirates in the battle of San Felipe and the Cobá Lagoon.^[2]
May 14 – The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews is founded in Scotland.
May 28 – The Battle of Jumonville Glen begins the French and Indian War in North America: 22-year-old George Washington leads a company of militia from the Colony of Virginia in an ambush on a force of 35 French Canadians.
June 19 – The Albany Congress of seven northern colonies proposes an American Union.

July – Columbia University is founded as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. The college is originally located in Lower Manhattan. Instruction is suspended in 1776 and the school reopens in 1784 as Columbia College. With the college's growth in the 19th Century, it is renamed Columbia University in 1896.
July 3 – French and Indian War: Battle of Fort Necessity – George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
December 13 – Osman III (1754–1757) succeeds Mahmud I as Ottoman Emperor.

Surveyor William Churton lays out what will become the county seat of Orange County, North Carolina. The town is named Corbin Town for Francis Corbin, a member of the North Carolina governor's council. Corbin Town is renamed Childsburgh in 1759 and finally Hillsborough in 1766.