* 1749 – 1754 – Liutenant General Humphrey Bland is the Governor of Gibraltar.

Herschel's discoveries were supplemented by those of Caroline Herschel ( 11 objects ) and his son John Herschel ( 1754 objects ) and published by him as General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters in 1864.

He was sent with the regiment to America in 1754 for service in the French and Indian War under Major General Edward Braddock.

Wolf provided funding for Zedler to continue with the Universal Lexicon and other works he had already begun such as the General Chronicle of States, Wars, Churches and Scholarship ( 1733 – 1754, 22 volumes ).

In 1755 Gage's regiment was sent to North America as part of General Braddock's expeditionary force, whose objective was the expulsion of French forces from the Ohio Country, territory disputed between French and British colonies where there had been military clashes in 1754.

Benjamin Chew was Speaker of the Lower House for the Delaware counties ( 1753 – 1758 ); Attorney General and member of the Council of Pennsylvania ( 1754 – 1769 ); Recorder of Philadelphia City ( 1755 – 1774 ); Master of Rolls ( 1755 – 1774 ); Provincial Councillor of Pennsylvania ( 1755 ); Commissioner of Philadelphia ( 1761 ); Register-General of Wills ( 1765 – 1777 ); Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ( 1774 – 1777 ); and Judge and President of the High Court of Errors and Appeals ( 1791 – 1808 ).

In 1754, Fort Halifax was built by order of the Massachusetts General Court on the peninsula at the confluence of the Sebasticook and Kennebec rivers.

With the promotion of Sir Dudley Ryder to Lord Chief Justice in 1754, he became Attorney General, and when Ryder unexpectedly died several months later, he took his place as Chief Justice.

Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot ( August 18, 1782 – November 16, 1854 ), French soldier, son of General Jean Antoine Marbot ( 1754 – 1800 ), who died in the defence of Genoa under Masséna, was born at La Riviere ( Correze ).

Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot ( March 22, 1781-June 2, 1844 ), was born in La Riviere, the son of General Jean Antoine Marbot ( 1754 – 1800 ), who died in the defence of Genoa under Masséna.

Haslemere ’ s Member of Parliament ( MP ) from 1722 to 1754 was General James Oglethorpe, who founded the Colony of Georgia in British North America.

Upon the establishment of Bataan as a separate province in 1754, Balanga was made its capital by General Pedro Manuel Arandia due to its favorable location, at the heart of the new territorial jurisdiction.

He had been elected a Scottish Representative Peer in 1754 and served as the last Secretary of State for the Northern Department from 1779 to 1782 and as Lord President of the Council in 1783 and again from 1794 to 1796 and was also Lord Justice General between 1778 and 1795.

General Sir Banastre Tarleton, 1st Baronet, GCB ( 21 August 1754 – 15 January 1833 ) was a British soldier and politician.

In 1754, he was appointed chief engineer for General Braddock and went to America with the troops.

Colonel Colin Mackenzie ( 1754 – 1821 ) was Surveyor General of India, and an art collector and orientalist.

Harnett was elected to represent Wilmington in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1754.

* Colin Campbell ( British Army officer ) ( 1754 – 1814 ), Scottish General

General Major of the Crown Army, Lieutenant General since 1753, Great Sword-bearer of the Crown since 1754.

* General Sir William Maxwell, 7th Baronet of Calderwood ( 1754 – 1837 )

The stirps being ennobled with the Electoral Saxon Major General and Royal Polish Colonel Joachim Daniel von Jauch ( 1688 – 1754 ) became extinct in the 18th century.

Some members of the family followed Major General Joachim Daniel von Jauch ( 1688 – 1754 ) as officers into the Saxon and Polish army, two of them, Franz Georg Jauch ( b. 1681 ) and Heinrich Georg Jauch ( b. 1709 ), serving as lieutenant colonels – colonels in relation to the other regiments ( Linienregimenter – in the Royal Guard of King Augustus II the Strong and King Augustus III of Poland.

Dundas served as Solicitor General for Scotland from 1742 to 1746 and as Lord Advocate from 1754 to 1760.

In 1754, the Assembly decided to keep both bells ; the new one was attached to the tower clock while the old bell was, by vote of the Assembly, devoted " to such Uses as this House may hereafter appoint.

Louis-Marie Stanislas Fréron ( 17 August 1754 – 1802 ) was a French politician, journalist, representative to the National Assembly, and a representative on mission during the French Revolution.

In view of her later opinions, it is interesting to remember that Sibylle was actually descended from Octave Mirabeau's reactionary younger brother, André-Boniface-Louis de Riquetti, vicomte de Mirabeau, ( 1754 – 1792 ) known as Mirabeau-Tonneau because of his notorious embonpoint, who famously broke his sword in front of France's Revolutionary Assembly ( where he represented the nobility of the Limousin ) while bitterly crying out: " now that The King is giving up his kingdom, a nobleman no longer needs a sword to fight for him!

The Society was founded in 1754 and was granted a Royal Charter in 1847.

From 1754 he was granted premises, at first at the Manufacture des Gobelins, then, in 1756, in workshops and lodgings at the Arsenal.

While the first court administering the Common Law was established in Annapolis Royal in 1721, the creation of a Supreme Court took place on October 21, 1754, several years before the Province was granted a legislative assembly.

) In 1747, the church in the Netherlands gave permission to form an assembly in America which in 1754 declared itself independent of the classis of Amsterdam.

In 1754 Carl von Linné ( Carl Linnaeus ) divided the plant Kingdom into 25 classes in a taxonomy with a standardized binomial naming system for animal and plant species.

In 1754 he co-wrote, with Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, an obituary for J. S.

On his return to Paris in 1754 Lacaille was distressed to find himself an object of public attention ; he withdrew to Mazarin college, where he worked actively for some years, and there died of an attack of gout aggravated by over-work in 1762.

Francesco Algarotti's Essay on the Opera ( 1754 ) proved to be an inspiration for Christoph Willibald Gluck's reforms.

Thomas Bowdler (; 11 July 1754 – 24 February 1825 ) was an English physician and philanthropist, best known for publishing The Family Shakspeare, an expurgated edition of William Shakespeare's work, edited by his sister Henrietta Maria Bowdler, intended to be more appropriate for 19th century women and children than the original.

He became known for his beautiful singing voice and in 1754 was sent to the Conservatorio di S. Onofrio at Naples, where he studied under Francesco Durante, and eventually became assistant master.

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

* Christoph Willibald Gluck ( 1714 – 1787 ) was Kapellmeister starting 1754 for Maria Theresa of Austria in Vienna.

Abraham de Moivre ( 26 May 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France – 27 November 1754 in London, England ; ) was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory.

Étienne-Maurice Falconet's marble Milo of Croton ( 1754 ) secured his admission to the Académie des beaux-arts, but was later criticized for lack of nobility.

With the Papal Brief Non Est Equidem of May 25, 1754, Pope Benedict XIV declared Our Lady of Guadalupe patron of what was then called New Spain, corresponding to Spanish Central and Northern America, and approved liturgical texts for the Holy Mass and the Breviary in her honor.

As a young man, Boone served with the British military during the French and Indian War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a struggle for control of the land beyond the Appalachian Mountains.

Fort Prince George ( named for the crown prince, later King George III ) was started in January 1754 by 41 Virginians in 1754.

At the time of the appearance of the French and Indians, Trent had been recalled to Wills Creek for a conference and his second-in-command, Lieutenant John Fraser ( frontiersman ), was at his own plantation at Turtle Creek on the Mononghela River, leaving Ensign Edward Ward in charge at the time of Fort Prince George's surrender on April 18, 1754.

It was named for Matthew Rowan, acting governor of North Carolina from 1753 to 1754.

The Orange County county seat of Hillsborough was founded in 1754 on land where the Great Indian Trading Path crossed the Eno River and was first owned, surveyed, and mapped by William Churton ( a surveyor for Earl Granville ).

* The poet George Crabbe was born in Aldeburgh in 1754 and the town forms a loose basis for his poems The Village and The Borough.

He wrote Le Cinesi for a festival in 1754 and La Danza for the birthday of the future Emperor Leopold II the following year.

Before 1754, when Lord Hardwicke's Act came into force, it was possible for eloping couples to be married clandestinely by an ordained clergyman ( a favourite location was the Fleet Prison, a debtors ' prison in London, in which clergymen willing to celebrate irregular marriages might be found ).