17th February » In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
1st May » Publication of 'Species Plantarum' by Carolus Linnaeus known as Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
Famous Birthdays in 1753
9th January » Luísa Todi, Portuguese soprano (d. 1833)
6th February » Évariste de Parny, French poet (d. 1814)
20th February » Louis-Alexandre Berthier, French general (d. 1815)
9th March » Jean Baptiste Kléber, French general (d. 1800)
13th March » Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, French wife of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (d. 1821)
26th March » Benjamin Thompson, American-French physicist (d. 1814)
27th March » Andrew Bell (educationalist) known as Andrew Bell, Scottish priest, founded Madras College (d. 1832)
1st April » Joseph de Maistre, French diplomat (d. 1821)
8th May » Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Mexican priest (d. 1811)
13th May » Lazare Carnot, French general, mathematician, and politician (d. 1823)
31st May » Pierre Victurnien Vergniaud, French lawyer and politician (d. 1793)
10th June » William Eustis, American physician and politician, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
24th June » William Hull, American general and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan Territory (d. 1825)
9th July » William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, English admiral and politician, 34th List of lieutenant governors of Newfoundland and Labrador or Lieutenant Governor Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1825)
25th July » Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, French-Spanish captain and politician, 10th Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata or Viceroy of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (d. 1810)
17th August » Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian (d. 1828)