Events from the year 1753 in France
Incumbents
Events
- The chemical element bismuth discovered by Claude François Geoffroy
Births
- 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
- ^ "BBC - History - King Louis XV". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ 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.
You must be logged in to post a comment.