28th January » Horace Walpole coins the word 'serendipity' in a letter to Horace Mann.
28th May » French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under the 22-year-old Lieutenant colonel George Washington defeat a France named French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County, Pennsy
3rd July » French and Indian War: George Washington Battle of Fort Necessity named surrenders Fort Necessity to Military history of France named French forces.
4th July » French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity National Battlefield known as Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
Famous Birthdays in 1754
15th January » Richard Martin (Irish politician) e.g Richard Martin, Irish activist and politician, co-founded the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1834)
24th January » Andrew Ellicott, American surveyor (d. 1820)
29th January » Moses Cleaveland, American general, lawyer, and politician, founded Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1806)
30th January » John Lansing, Jr., American lawyer and politician (d. 1829)
2nd February » Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1838)
17th February » Nicolas Baudin, French cartographer and explorer (d. 1803)
15th March » Archibald Menzies, Scottish surgeon and botanist (d. 1842)
23rd March » Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and physicist (d. 1802)
2nd May » Vicente Martín y Soler, Spanish composer (d. 1806)
12th May » Franz Anton Hoffmeister, German composer and publisher (d. 1812)
31st May » Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (d. 1817)