1754

Events 
 June 19 – The Albany Convention of New England Colonies proposes an American Union
 July – Columbia University founded as King's College by royal charter of King George II of England.  The college was originally in Lower Manhattan.  Instruction was suspended in 1776 and the school would be reopened in 1784 as Columbia College.  With the college's growth in the 19th Century, it would be renamed Columbia University in 1896.
 Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud I (1730-1754) to Osman III (1754-1757)
 Beginning of the French and Indian War in North America.
 Britain and its colonies adopted a new Marriage Act that formulated many of the rules of modern marriage.

 Births 
 September 9 – William Bligh, Captain of the Bounty, Governor of New South Wales (d. 1817)



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