1753 in France

Events from the year 1753 in France

1753
in
France
Decades:
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
See also:Other events of 1753
History of France   Timeline   Years

Incumbents

  • Monarch Louis XV[1]

Events

  • The chemical element bismuth discovered by Claude François Geoffroy

Births

Louis-Alexandre Berthier
  • 4 July Jean-Pierre Blanchard, inventor, pioneer in balloon flight (died 1809)
  • 25 July Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires, military officer in Spanish colonial service, Viceroy of the Río de la Plata (executed 1810)
  • 20 November Louis-Alexandre Berthier, maréchal de France (died 1815)[2]
  • 23 November Guillaume-Mathieu Dumas, military officer (died 1837)
  • Full date missing
    • Pierre Cuillier-Perron, military adventurer (died 1834)
    • Charles Julien Fanneau de Lahorie, French sailor (died 1822)

Deaths

  • 18 June Claude François Geoffroy, chemist (born 1729)
  • 10 November Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais, naval officer (born 1699)
  • 10 December Claude Gros de Boze, scholar and numismatist (born 1680)

See also

References

  1. "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
  2. Blangstrup, Chr., ed. (1915). "Berthier, Louis Alexandre". Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon (in Danish). Vol. 3 (2 ed.). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz Forlagsboghandel. pp. 88–89. Retrieved 2015-08-20.


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