1754 in France

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis XV

Events

• 28 May - The Battle of Jumonville Glen begins the French and Indian War in North America: 22-year-old George Washington leads a company of militia from the Colony of Virginia in an ambush on a force of 35 French Canadians.
• 3 July - French and Indian War: Battle of Fort Necessity - George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.

Births

• 2 February - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, French politician
• 15 January Jacques Pierre Brissot, French politician
• 17 February - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer
• 17 March - Madame Roland, French politician
• 9 August - Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French architect
• 18 August - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general
• 23 August - Prince Louis-Auguste, grandson and eventual successor of the reigning King Louis XV
• 26 September - Joseph Proust, French chemist
• 9 December - Etienne Ozi, French composer

Deaths

• 4 July - Philippe Néricault Destouches, French dramatist
• 27 November - Abraham de Moivre, French mathematician