History
1753
General
Population: 831 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Goldoni (comedy), Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Robert Lowth (Hebrew poetry), Hogarth The Analysis of Beauty,
Rousseau
Art includes Joshua Reynolds "Commodore Keppel"
Music includes CPE Bach
- Science: Linnaeus writes Species Plantorum
- Deaths: Philosopher George Berkeley, Architect Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff, Organ builder Gottfried Silbermann,
Professor Georg Wilhelp Richmann of Russia killed by globe of ball lightning he created
Africa
- Senegal: Britain and France clash over control of Senegal
Americas
- General: French troops from Canada start aggressions against British territories - leads to French and Indian and Seven Years' Wars
Asia
- Burma: Alaungpaya reunites land, founds last Burmese dynasty to 1885
Europe
- General: Frederick the Great of Germany fights Austro-Russian agreement
- German States: Pigalle creates tomb of the Marechal de Saxe at Strasbourg
- Great Britain: English Act of Parliament permits naturalization of Jews
British Museum in London granted royal foundation charter
Jockey Club establishes permanent racetrack at Newmarket
Land Tax of two shillings in the pound in England and Wales
British Marriage Act forbids weddings by unauthorized persons
British museum created
- Holy Roman Empire: Vienna Stock Exchange founded
General
- Military: French enter Ohio valley, 21 year old George Washington, a surveyor, sent to warn the French that the land belongs to the British
- Politics: Benjamin Franklin and William Hunter chosen to run postal service with Franklin as Postmaster General
East
- Pennsylvania: Liberty Bell hung in Pennsylvania State House – cracks appear with first ringing
Midwest
- General: French troops from Canada take Ohio Valley - build forts between Lake Erie and Ohio River