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1754| 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. | | 1754 | England [furniture] | English furniture maker Thomas Chippendale publishes The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker's Directory. | | 1754 | America [slavery] | North American Quaker preacher John Woolman publishes Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes, one of the earliest antislavery tracts. | | 1754 | America [thought and scholarship] | North American philosopher Jonathan Edwards publishes A Careful and Strict Enquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of Freedom of the Will, his most important work, an attack on Arminianism, a doctrine that that is ascendant in North American theology and departs from strict Calvinist predestination, allowing for salvation by good works. | | 14 May 1754 | UK [golf] | The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews has its beginnings when 22 ‘Noblemen and Gentlemen’ form themselves into the St Andrews Society of Golfers, at St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. It takes its present name in 1834. | | 23 August 1754 | France [births and deaths] | Louis XVI, King of France 1774–93, born in Versailles, France (–1793). |
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