1754

1754 (MDCCLIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1754th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 754th year of the 2nd millennium, the 54th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1754, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1720s  1730s  1740s  – 1750s –  1760s  1770s  1780s
Years:	1751 1752 1753 – 1754 – 1755 1756 1757

1754 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1754 MDCCLIV
Ab urbe condita	2507
Armenian calendar	1203 ԹՎ ՌՄԳ
Assyrian calendar	6504
Balinese saka calendar	1675–1676
Bengali calendar	1161
Berber calendar	2704
British Regnal year	27 Geo. 2 – 28 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2298
Burmese calendar	1116
Byzantine calendar	7262–7263
Chinese calendar	癸酉年 (Water Rooster) 4450 or 4390     — to — 甲戌年 (Wood Dog) 4451 or 4391
Coptic calendar	1470–1471
Discordian calendar	2920
Ethiopian calendar	1746–1747
Hebrew calendar	5514–5515
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1810–1811
- Shaka Samvat	1675–1676
- Kali Yuga	4854–4855
Holocene calendar	11754
Igbo calendar	754–755
Iranian calendar	1132–1133
Islamic calendar	1167–1168
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 4 (宝暦４年)
Javanese calendar	1679–1680
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4087
Minguo calendar	158 before ROC 民前158年
Nanakshahi calendar	286
Thai solar calendar	2296–2297
Tibetan calendar	阴水鸡年 (female Water-Rooster) 1880 or 1499 or 727     — to — 阳木狗年 (male Wood-Dog) 1881 or 1500 or 728

Events

• June 19 – The Albany Convention of New England Colonies proposes an American Union
• July – Columbia University founded as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England. The college was originally in Lower Manhattan. Instruction was suspended in 1776 and the school would be reopened in 1784 as Columbia College. With the college's growth in the 19th Century, it would be renamed Columbia University in 1896.
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud I (1730-1754) to Osman III (1754-1757)
• Beginning of the French and Indian War in North America.
• Britain and its colonies adopted a new Marriage Act that formulated many of the rules of modern marriage.

Births

• September 9 – William Bligh, Captain of the Bounty, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1817)