Major Events
- Jan 4 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)
- Jan 15 Riot at burial of Orangist leader Daniel Raap in Amsterdam
- Jan 28 Horace Walpole, in a letter to Horace Mann, coins the word serendipity
- Mar 8 Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain
- Mar 18 Thomas Pelham-Holles becomes British Prime Minister on the death of his brother Henry Pelham
- May 9 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
- May 28 Battle of Jumonville Glen: forces led by George Washington kill French Canadian officer Joseph Coulon de Jumonville
- Jun 19 Albany Congress held by seven British colonies & Iroquois indians
- Jul 3 George Washington surrenders to French, Fort Necessity (7 Years' War)
- Jul 4 George Washington gives Fort Necessity to France
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Talleyrand
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Louis XVI
William Bligh
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Famous Weddings in 1754
- Nov 16 British PM William Pitt the Elder (46) weds Lady Hester Grenville (34) in Argyle Street, London
Frederick the Great
