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1750
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1750 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1750
MDCCL |
| Ab urbe condita |
2503 |
| Armenian calendar |
1199
ԹՎ ՌՃՂԹ |
| Chinese calendar |
4446 – 4447
己巳 – 庚午 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1742 – 1743 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5510 – 5511 |
| Hindu calendars |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1805 – 1806 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1672 – 1673 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4851 – 4852 |
| Iranian calendar |
1128 – 1129 |
| Islamic calendar |
1163 – 1164 |
1750 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events
- January - A fire in Istanbul destroys 10,000 houses.
- March 2 - Small earthquake in London, England
- April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England
- April 5 - First known case of harlequin type ichthyosis reported
- April - A second fire devastates Istanbul.
- August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England
- September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England
- November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened
- Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella
- "James Gray" reveals her sex to her Royal Marines compatriots
- José I takes over the throne of Portugal from his deceased father, João V. King José Manuel appoints the Marquis of Pombal as his Chief Minister, who then strips the Inquisition of its power.
- John Cleland publishes Fanny Hill, or The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
- Ahmad Shah's army, retreating from Persia, is said to have lost 18,000 men near what is present-day Herat, Afghanistan from cold in a single night.
- A third fire late in the year in Istanbul destroys 10,000 more houses.
- World population: 791,000,000
- Africa: 106,000,000
- Asia: 502,000,000
- Europe: 163,000,000
- Latin-America: 16,000,000
- Northern America: 2,000,000
- Oceania: 2,000,000
Births
- January 1 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1801)
- April 17 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (d. 1828)
- May 31 - Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian politician (d. 1822)
- August 18 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
- September 26 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810)
- November 7 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
- December 10 - Tipu Sultan, Sultan of Mysore (d. 1799)
- December 23 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)
- Joanna Southcott, British religious fanatic (d. 1814)
- Adwaita, Oldest tortoise (d. 2006) (alleged birth year; awaiting C-14 verification)
Deaths
- January 16 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b. 1667)
- January 22 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
- January 26 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
- February 8 - Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685)
- May 3 - John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
- May 28 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
- June 15 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)
- July 28 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
- July 31 - King John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
- September 15 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
- October 16 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
- December 1 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar (b. 1672)
- Rachel Ruysch, Dutch painter (b. 1664)
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