1756

Published on Friday, October 5th 2007. Edited by Bar Lowhitdud, Cupertino, United States.

Centuries: 17th century – 18th century – 19th century

Decades: 1720s 1730s 1740s – 1750s – 1760s 1770s 1780s

Years: 1753 1754 1755 – 1756 – 1757 1758 1759

Year 1756 (MDCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1756

July 30: In Russia, Empress Elizabeth at the porch of the newly-built Catherine Palace, painting (1905) by Eugene Lanceray (in Tretyakov Gallery).

January – June

March 17 – St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
April 12 – Seven Years' War: The French invade Minorca, then under British control.
May 17 – Seven Years' War: The Seven Years' War formally begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
May 20 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Minorca: The British fleet under John Byng is defeated by the French under Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière.
May 28 – Seven Years' War: The British garrison in Minorca surrenders to the French.
June 25 – Foundation of * The Marine Society in London, the world’s oldest seafarers' charity.

July – December

July 30 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
August 14 – Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Fort Oswego falls to the French.
August 29 – Frederick the Great invades Saxony, beginning the war on the continent.
October 1 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Lobositz: Frederick defeats an Austrian army under Marshal Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne.
December – Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Militias of the Royal Colony of North Carolina build a fort on the province’s western frontier to protect it against natives allied with the French. The fort is named Fort Dobbs in honour of North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs, who persuaded the North Carolina legislature to fund the construction a year earlier.

Undated

Frederick II of Prussia forces his country’s peasants to grow the unpopular and obscure potato.

Ongoing events

French and Indian War (1754–1763)

Births

1756 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar 1756 MDCCLVI

Ab urbe condita 2509

Armenian calendar 1205 ԹՎ ՌՄԵ

Bahá'í calendar -88 – -87

Berber calendar 2706

Buddhist calendar 2300

Burmese calendar 1118

Chinese calendar 4392/4452-11-30 (乙亥年十一月三十日)

— to —

4393/4453-11-11 (丙子年十一月十一日)

Coptic calendar 1472 – 1473

Ethiopian calendar 1748 – 1749

Hebrew calendar 5516 – 5517

Hindu calendars

- Vikram Samvat 1811 – 1812

- Shaka Samvat 1678 – 1679

- Kali Yuga 4857 – 4858

Holocene calendar 11756

Iranian calendar 1134 – 1135

Islamic calendar 1169 – 1170

Japanese calendar Hōreki 6 (宝暦6年)

Korean calendar 4089

Thai solar calendar 2299

January 19 – Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, French entemologist (died 1814)
January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (died 1791)
February 6 – Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (died 1836)
March 3 – William Godwin, English writer (died 1836)
March 4 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (died 1823)
May 18 – Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, court councillor and minister to Alexander I (died 1839)
May 27 – Maximilian I of Bavaria (died 1825)
June 6 – John Trumbull, American painter (died 1843)
June 20 – Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer (died 1792)
July 7 – Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, Swedish statesman (died 1813)
August 1 – Pierre Louis Prieur, French politician (died 1827)
August 29 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (died 1845)
September 7 – Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (died 1831)
November 3 – Pierre Laromiguière, French philosopher (died 1837)

Deaths

January 18 – Francis George of Schönborn-Buchheim (born 1682)
February 25 – Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (born 1693)
April 10 – Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (born 1661)
April 18 – Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (born 1677)
July 24 – George Vertue, English engraver and antiquary (born 1684)
October 26 – Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, governor of New France (born 1693)
October 28 – Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort (born 1709)
December 8 – William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English statesman and diplomat (born c.1690)
date unknown – Bernard Accama, Dutch painter (born 1697)

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