25 March – Lord Harwicke's
Marriage Act 1753 "for the Better Preventing of Clandestine Marriage" comes into force in
England and Wales, giving increased incentive for couples to contract
Border marriages in Scotland.
^Emerson, Roger L. (1973). The Social Composition of Enlightened Scotland: The Select Society of Edinburgh, 1754–1764. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century.