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1756
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1756 in other calendars
| Gregorian calendar |
1756
MDCCLVI |
| Ab urbe condita |
2509 |
| Armenian calendar |
1205
ԹՎ ՌՄԵ |
| Chinese calendar |
4452 – 4453
乙亥 – 丙子 |
| Ethiopian calendar |
1748 – 1749 |
| Hebrew calendar |
5516 – 5517 |
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| - Vikram Samvat |
1811 – 1812 |
| - Shaka Samvat |
1678 – 1679 |
| - Kali Yuga |
4857 – 4858 |
| Iranian calendar |
1134 – 1135 |
| Islamic calendar |
1169 – 1170 |
Empress Elizabeth at the porch of the newly-built Catherine Palace (1905), painting by Eugene Lanceray, now in the Tretyakov Gallery.
1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events
- Frederick II of Prussia forces his country's peasants to grow the unpopular and obscure potato
January
February
March
- March 17 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
April
- April 12 - Seven Years' War: The French invade Minorca, then under British control.
May
- May 17 - Seven Years' War: The Seven Years' War formally begins when England declares war on France.
- May 20 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Minorca: The English fleet under John Byng is defeated by the French under Augustin de la Gallisonnière.
- May 28 - Seven Years' War: The British garrison in Minorca surrenders to the French.
June
July
- July 30 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
August
- 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.
September
October
- October 1 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Lobositz: Frederick defeats an Austrian army under Marshal Maximilian von Browne.
November
December
- December - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Militias of the Province 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 honor of North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs, who persuaded the North Carolina legislature to fund the construction a year earlier.
Ongoing events
Births
- 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)
- 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)
- Abdullah bin Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (died 1814)
- Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, Swedish statesman (died 1813)
- Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, French entemologist (died 1814)
Deaths
- 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)
- December 8 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English statesman and diplomat (born c.1690)
- Bernard Accama, Dutch painter (born 1697)
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