1754 in France
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Events from the year 1754 in France.
Incumbents
Events
- 28 May â The Battle of Jumonville Glen begins the French and Indian War in North America: 22-year-old George Washington leads a company of militia from the Colony of Virginia in an ambush on a force of 35 French Canadians.
- 3 July â French and Indian War: Battle of Fort Necessity â George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.
Births
- 2 February â Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician (d. 1838)[2]
- 15 January Jacques Pierre Brissot, French politician (d. 1795)
- 17 February â Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (d. 1803)
- 17 March â Madame Roland (Jeanne Marie Manon Philipon), French politician (d. 1793)
- 9 August â Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect (d. 1825)
- 18 August â François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (d. 1833)
- 23 August â Prince Louis-Auguste, grandson and eventual successor (as Louis XVI) of the reigning King Louis XV (d. 1793)[3]
- 26 September â Joseph Proust, French chemist (d. 1826)
- 9 December â Etienne Ozi, French composer (d. 1813)
Deaths
- 4 July â Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist (b. 1680)
- 27 November â Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician (b. 1667)
