1753

Events

  • Sweden adopts Gregorian calendar
  • British parliament extends citizenship to Jews
  • Publication of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus on 1 May, adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature as the formal start date of the scientific classification of plants
  • James Lind writes A Treatise of the Scurvy
  • Tobias Smollett writes Ferdinand Count Fathom
  • Robert Wallace writes On the Numbers of Man

Births

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Deaths

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