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1753| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1743–1760 | North America [town planning] | Paving city streets in the North American colonies becomes common, making the colonial streets drier and smoother than those in Britain. | | 1750–1777 | Portugal [law and government] | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis of Pombal, virtual ruler of Portugal during the reign of José I, carries out a series of extensive reforms aimed at breaking the power of the nobility and revitalizing Portugal's finances, industry, agriculture, and education system. | | 1753 | UK, France [technology] | French cartographer Nicolas Desmarest suggests the construction of a Channel Tunnel linking Britain to mainland Europe. | | 1753 | France [thought and scholarship] | French scientist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, delivers the lecture Discours sur le style/Discourse on Style on his admission to the Académie Française. It contains his celebrated line: ‘Le style est l'homme même’ (‘Style is the man himself’). |
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