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Sun Nov 05 2000 at 20:55:55
Born in 1753:
English
engraver
Thomas Bewick
English
architect
Sir
John Soane
.
English
actress
and
playwright
Elizabeth Inchbald
.
French philosopher
Lazare Carnot
, Minister of War during the
French Revolution
and the
Napoleonic
era.
Miguel Hidalgo
y Costilla, leader of the
1810
Mexican uprising, often called "
Father of Mexico
".
Scottish
philosopher
Dugald Stewart
.
French
geographer
Philippe Buache
, who explained how river systems drain continents.
Maryland
signer of the
Declaration of Independence
James McHenry
, in
Ireland
.
American
poet
and author
Phyllis Wheatley
, in
Africa
.
French aviation pioneer
Jean-Pierre François Blanchard
.
British physicist and military innovator
Benjamin Thompson Rumford
.
American evangelist
Lemuel Haynes
.
French
reactionary
philosohpher
Joseph de Maistre
.
Japanese
artist
Kitagawa Utamaro
.
Japanese poet and painter
Tagami Kikusha
.
Sir
Hans Sloane
, founder of the
British Museum
.
Died in 1753:
English
philosopher
and
mathematician
,
Bishop George Berkeley
.
Swedish
guitar
composer
Hedvig Mörner
.
Events of 1753:
James Lind
discovers that
scurvy
is caused by a
dietary deficiency
. He publishes his findings in
A Treatise of the Scurvy
which finds that oranges and limes seem to prevent the disease. British naval ships begin stocking citrus fruits to prevent scurvy, and thus earn British sailors the
moniker
"
Limey
".
21-year-old
George Washington
leads a band of Virginia soldiers into the Ohio country. At the "Forks of the Ohio" (
Pittsburgh
) he finds a location well-suited to build a fort. Washington conveys British demands for the French to vacate
Fort Presque'Isle
(
Erie
,
Pennsylvania
). A French Indian agent tells Washington that they intend to take the whole territory. After much hardship, he returns to
Williamsburg
to tell his story.
Sweden
adopts the
Gregorian Calendar
. All of a sudden, February 17 is March 1st. Many people think the government robbed them of 11 days of their life!
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Hans Sloane
Franz Carl Achard
Elizabeth Inchbald
George Washington
Sweden
Seven Years' War
George Berkeley
Moccona
Hidalgo
1980
Mexico