Events of 1753

January–June

• January 1 – Minimum date value for a datetime field in SQL Server due to it being the first full year after Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar.

• January 29 – After a month's absence, Elizabeth Canning returns to her mother's home in London and claims that she was abducted. The following criminal trial causes uproar.

• March 1 – Sweden adopts the Gregorian calendar.

• April 5 – The founding charter of the British Museum is enacted.

• May 1 – Species Plantarum is published by Linnaeus (adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants).

July–December

• July 7 – royal assent to the Jewish Naturalization Act: The British Parliament extends citizenship to Jews

• October 31 – Virginia Lieut. Gov. Robert Dinwiddie commissions 21-year-old militia Maj. George Washington to dissuade the French from occupying the Ohio Country. The Seven Years' War, the first global conflict, ensues.

Undated

• James Lind writes A Treatise of the Scurvy.

• The Cramer family starts a brewing operation including the current major brand Warsteiner.

• Marriage Act 1753 (Parliament of Great Britain)

Ongoing

• Samuel Johnson is still writing A Dictionary of the English Language begun in 1746.

• Revolt of the Comuneros (New Granada)

Births

• February 12 – François-Paul Brueys D'Aigalliers, French admiral (d. 1798)

• February 20 – Louis Alexandre Berthier, French marshal (d. 1815)

• March 8 – William Roscoe, English writer (d. 1831)

• March 9 – Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)

• March 26 – Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)

• April 3 – Simon Willard, celebrated American horologist (d. 1848)

• May 8 – Miguel Hidalgo, Mexican Catholic priest and revolutionary (d. 1811)

• May 13 – Lazare Nicholas Marguerite Carnot, French general, politician, and mathematician (d. 1823)

• July 9 – William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)

• August 10 – Edmund Randolph, American politician (d. 1813)

• August 12 – Thomas Bewick, English wood engraver (d. 1828)

• September 10 – John Soane, British architect (d. 1837)

• November 6 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (d. 1823)

• December 3 – Samuel Crompton, English inventor (d. 1827)

• date unknown

• *Phillis Wheatley, African-born poet (d. 1784)

• *Francesc Antoni de la Dueña y Cisneros, Spanish bishop (d. 1821)

Deaths

• January 11 – Sir Hans Sloane, Irish physician (b. 1660)

• January 14 – George Berkeley, Irish philosopher (b. 1685)

• January 23 – Anne, Duchess of Maine (b. 1676)

• February 16 – Giacomo Facco, composer (b. 1676)

• May 23 – Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa, dramatist (b. 1705)

• June 7 – Archibald Cameron of Locheil, last Jacobite to be executed for treason (b. 1707)

• August 6 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Russian physicist (struck by lightning) (b. 1711)

• August 19 – Balthasar Neumann, German architect and military engineer (b. 1687)

• December 15 – Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, English architect (b. 1694)