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| 1753 |
| | | Walpole adds the library and refectory or great parlour to Strawberry Hill. | |
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| 1753 |
| | | The first, highly decorative, Hampton Court Bridge with seven steep sided arches opens and replaces the ferry and the ford used in the drier season | |
|  | Design for the first Hampton Court Bridge in 1753
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| 1754 |
| | | In Freedom of Will American evangelist Jonathan Edwards makes an uncompromising defence of orthodox against liberal Calvinism | |
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| 1754 |
| | | David Garrick, famous Shakespearian actor, leases and then buys what was known as Hampton House, now Garrick's Villa, as a country retreat and place to entertain friends | |
|  | Garrick's Villa, in 1784
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| 1754 |
| | | Richard Hoare moves into Barn Elms, beginning a long period of close involvement of the famous banking family in the affairs of Barnes | |
|  | Barn Elms, Barnes
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| 1754 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin's chopped-up snake, urging union of the colonies with the caption 'Join or Die', is the first American political cartoon | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Quaker minister John Woolman publishes the first part of Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes, an essay denouncing slavery | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Scottish chemist Joseph Black identifies the existence of a gas, carbon dioxide, which he calls 'fixed air' | |
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| 1754 |
| | | George Washington kills ten French troops at Fort Duquesne, in the first violent clash of the French and Indian war | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin proposes to the Albany Congress that the colonies should unite to form a colonial government | |
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