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What Happened In Year 1754?

• 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 In The Year 1754?

• January 15, 1754 – Richard Martin, Irish animal rights activist (d. 1834)
• January 24, 1754 – Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
• January 29, 1754 – Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland (d. 1806)
• February 2, 1754 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French diplomat and statesman (d. 1838)
• February 17, 1754 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
• March 15, 1754 – Archibald Menzies, Scottish naturalist and surgeon (d. 1842)
• June 1, 1754 – Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Austrian governor of the Duchy of Milan and Duke of Breisgau (d. 1806)
• June 4, 1754 – Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832)
• June 16, 1754 – Salawat Yulayev, Bashkir poet (d. 1800)
• July 11, 1754 – Thomas Bowdler, English physician and censor (d. 1825)
• August 9, 1754 – Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect, planner of Washington, D.C. (d. 1825)
• August 18, 1754 – François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
• August 21, 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish inventor (d. 1839)
• August 23, 1754 – King Louis XVI of France (d. 1793)
• September 9, 1754 – William Bligh, Royal Navy admiral and colonial administrator (d. 1817)
• September 19, 1754 – John Ross Key, commissioned officer in the Continental Army, judge, lawyer and the father of Francis Scott Key (d. 1821)
• October 16, 1754 – Morgan Lewis, Governor of New York (1804–07) (d. 1844)
• November 27, 1754 – Georg Forster, German scientist (d. 1794)
• December 2, 1754 – William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809)

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