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1754

• At the Albany Conference, Benjamin Franklin proposes a plan for the union of Britain’s 13 American colonies
• Jonathan Edwards publishes The Freedom of the Will
• King’s College (later Columbia University) is chartered in New York
• The first volume of David Hume’s two-volume History of Great Britain
• Henry Fielding dies (October 8)