Birth of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
Birth of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord
Historical events in 1754
18 historical records
February 17541 historical events
March 17541 historical events
Prime Minister of Great Britain
Appointed Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1st term
May 17542 historical events
Election
Returned by Aldborough
Election
The Government wins a landslide election victory
June 17541 historical events
Birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Field Marshal
Appointed Field Marshal
Treatise on Sensations
Condillac publishes Treatise on Sensations, his major statement of sensationist philosophy.
Begins Legal Training
Cowper entered legal training in London before devoting himself increasingly to literary work.
Election Entertainment Painted
Hogarth began depicting election corruption in scenes forming his satirical Humours of an Election sequence.
History of Great Britain Stuart Volume
Hume published his history of the early Stuarts, beginning the project that became The History of England.
Attorney General
Appointed Attorney General
Member of Parliament
Elected Member of Parliament for Whitchurch
Commander
Appointed Commander of the sloop Jamaica and serves in her on the North American station
Succession
Succeeds as Emperor of India
Concordat
The Spanish Church becomes independent of Rome
The Origins of Inequality
Publication of "The Origins of Inequality". Denounces civilized Society & upholds the superiority of the "noble savage"
noble savage
Publication of "The Origins of Inequality". Denounces civilized Society & upholds the superiority of the "noble savage"
Congress of Albany
Proposes a "plan for union" of British colonies, Britain reject the idea