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What Happened In Year 1753?

• February 17, 1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
• May 1, 1753 – Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.

Who Were Born In The Year 1753?

• January 9, 1753 – Luísa Todi, Portuguese mezzo-soprano opera singer (d. 1833)
• February 6, 1753 – Évariste de Parny, French poet (d. 1814)
• February 12, 1753 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)
• February 20, 1753 – Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)
• March 9, 1753 – Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
• March 13, 1753 – Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, great heiress and wife of Philippe Égalité (d. 1821)
• March 26, 1753 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
• April 1, 1753 – Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat and writer (d. 1821)
• May 8, 1753 – Miguel Hidalgo Mexican revolutionary (d. 1811)
• May 31, 1753 – Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French statesman (d. 1793)
• June 10, 1753 – William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
• July 9, 1753 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English territorial governor (d. 1825)
• July 25, 1753 – Santiago de Liniers, viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (d. 1810)
• August 17, 1753 – Josef Dobrovský, Czech linguist (d. 1828)
• September 2, 1753 – Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, Italy-born queen consort of France and wife of King Louis XVIII of France (d. 1810)
• September 10, 1753 – Sir John Soane, English neo-classical architect (d. 1837)
• November 6, 1753 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)
• November 16, 1753 – James McHenry, American statesman (d. 1816)
• November 17, 1753 – Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, American clergyman and botanist (d. 1815)

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