* 1754 – Pierre Charles L ' Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, planner of Washington, D. C. ( d. 1825 )

* 1696 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan ( d. 1754 )

* 1754 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer and inventor, created gas lighting ( d. 1839 )

* 1754 – Banastre Tarleton, English soldier and politician ( d. 1833 )

* 1754 – Louis XVI of France ( d. 1793 )

* 1673 – Richard Mead, English physician ( d. 1754 )

* 1744 – Alexandrine Le Normant d ' Étiolles, French daughter of Madame de Pompadour ( d. 1754 )

** April 1798 – November 1801 Jakob Emmanuel Feer ( b. 1754 – d. 1833 )

* Aleksandra von Engelhardt ( 1754 – 1838 ), Russian lady-in-waiting

* Robert A. McCaughey: Stand, Columbia: A History of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1754 – 2004, Columbia University Press, 2003, ISBN 0231130082

* George Cumberland ( 1754 – 1848 ), art collector and artist

* 1754 – William Cooper, American judge ( d. 1809 )

* 1754 – George Crabbe, British poet and naturalist ( d. 1832 )

* 1754 – Mahmud I, Ottoman Sultan ( b. 1696 )

Born at Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire near Newark-on-Trent, England, the youngest of seven children of Robert Darwin of Elston ( 12 August 1682 – 20 November 1754 ), a lawyer, and his wife Elizabeth Hill ( 1702 – 1797 ).

* 1692 – Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, French writer ( d. 1754 )

* 1683 – Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Italian painter ( d. 1754 )

* 1691 – Edward Cave, English editor and publisher ( d. 1754 )

* 1754 – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, French diplomat and statesman ( d. 1838 )

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

Allegory on writing history by Jacob de Wit ( 1754 ).

Society corrupts men only insofar as the Social Contract has not de facto succeeded, as we see in contemporary society as described in the Discourse on Inequality ( 1754 ).

* Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men ( Discours sur l ' origine et les fondements de l ' inégalité parmi les hommes ), 1754

* 1667 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician ( d. 1754 )

In 1754, de Lacaille was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

* December 25 – Dominique Catherine de Pérignon, Marshal of France ( b. 1754 )

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Bernadotte was born in Pau, France, as the son of Jean Henri Bernadotte ( Pau, Béarn, 14 October 1711 – Pau, 31 March 1780 ), procurator at Pau, and wife ( married at Boëil-Bezing, 20 February 1754 ) Jeanne de Saint-Vincent ( Pau, 1 April 1728 – Pau, 8 January 1809 ).

His brother Jean Bernadotte ( Pau, 1754 – Pau, 8 August 1813 ) was eventually made 1st Baron Bernadotte and married Marie Anne Charlotte de Saint-Paul.

* May 26 – Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician ( d. 1754 )

Governor Duquesne sent additional French forces under Claude-Pierre Pecaudy de Contrecœur to relieve Saint-Pierre during the same period, and Contrecœur led 500 men south from Fort Venango on April 5, 1754.

It was constructed by Canadien Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière between 1754 and 1757 during the Seven Years ' War, often referred to as the French and Indian War in the USA.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, prince de Bénévent, then prince de Talleyrand (; 1754 – 1838 )

These competing claims led to a war in the colonies called the French and Indian War ( 1754 – 62 ), and contributed to the start of the global Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ).

The French responded by attacking and capturing Washington at Fort Necessity in July 1754.

In 1754, Lieutenant Governor Dinwiddie had promised land bounties to the soldiers and officers who volunteered to serve during the French and Indian War.

* 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French forces.

* 1754 – French and Indian War: George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt.

* 1754 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist and author ( b. 1680 )

* 1754 – French and Indian War: in the first engagement of the war, Virginia militia under 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington defeat a French reconnaissance party in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania.

* French and Indian War ( 1754 – 1763 )

Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

* April 9 – Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist ( d. 1754 )

** Claude Fauchet, French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1754 )

** Jacques Pierre Brissot, French revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1754 )

* November 8 – Madame Roland, French Revolutionary hostess ( executed ) ( b. 1754 )

* December 17 – Pierre Louis Roederer, French politician, economist, and historian ( b. 1754 )

The French and Indian War ( 1754 – 1763 ) is the American name for the North American theater of the Seven Years ' War.

The dispute erupted into violence in the Battle of Jumonville Glen in May 1754, during which Virginia militiamen under the command of George Washington ambushed a French patrol.