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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years: 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 - 1758 - 1759 1760 1761 1762 1763
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Events
- July 8 - French and Indian War: French forces hold Fort Carillon against British at Ticonderoga, New York.
- July 25 - French and Indian War: The island battery at Fortress Louisbourg is silenced and all French warships are destroyed or taken.
- November 25 - French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control.
- December 25 - Halley's Comet appears
- First European settlement in what is now Erie County by the French at the mouth of Buffalo Creek.
- Pope Clement XIII ascends to papacy
- Rudjer Boscovich publishes his atomic theory in Theoria philosophiae naturalis redacta ad unicam legem virium in nalura existentium
Ongoing events
Births
- April 28 - James Monroe, later 5th President of the United States.
- May 6 - Maximilian Robespierre, French revolutionary.
- September 29 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral.
- October 16 - Noah Webster, American lexicographer.
- Charles d'Abancourt, french statesman
- Emperor Go-Momozono of Japan
- Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii
Deaths
- December 5 - Johann Friedrich Fasch, composer
- Pope Benedict XIV
Monarchs/Presidents
- China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
- France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
- Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
- Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
- Russia - Elizabeth Empress of Russia (reigned from 1741 to January 5, 1762)
- Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)
- Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)\n