1757

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Year '1757' ('MDCCLVII') was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1757

January - June

July - December

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of 1757

January - June

★ January 2 - Britain captures Calcutta, India.

★ January 11 - Possible birth date of Alexander Hamilton.

★ March 14 - Seven Years' War: On-board the ''HMS Monarch'', Royal Navy Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for breach of the Articles of War.

★ May 6 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Prague: Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.

★ June 18 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Kolin: Frederick is defeated by an Austrian army under Marshal Daun, forcing him to evacuate Bohemia.

★ June 23 - Battle of Plassey: 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.

July - December

★ July 26 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Hastenbeck: An Anglo-Hanoverian army under the Duke of Cumberland is defeated by the French under Louis d'Estrées and forced out of Hanover.

★ July 30 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: A Prussian army under Hans von Lehwald is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin.

★ August 3 - August 9 - French and Indian War: A French army under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm forces the English to surrender Fort William Henry. The French army's Indian allies slaughter the survivors for unclear reasons

★ October 16 - Seven Years' War: Austrian raiders plunder Berlin.

★ October 30 - Osman III dies and is succeeded as Ottoman Sultan by Mustafa III.

★ November 5 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Rossbach: Frederick defeats the French-Imperial army under the Duc de Soubise and Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, forcing the French to withdraw from Saxony.

★ November 22 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Breslau: An Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine defeats the Prussian army of Wilhelm of Brunswick-Bevern and forces the Austrians behind the Oder.

★ December 6 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick defeats Prince Charles's Austrian army in what is generally considered the Prussian king's greatest tactical victory.

Ongoing events

★ French and Indian War (1754-1763)

★ Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

Births

★ January 16 - Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834)

★ February 20 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)

★ April 9 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833)

★ May 30 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)

★ June 18 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)

★ June 22 - George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)

★ July 20 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)

★ August 9 - Thomas Telford, British Engineer & Architect (d. 1834)

★ September 6 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)

★ October 9 - King Charles X of France (d. 1836)

★ October 21 - Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)

★ November 28 - William Blake, English poet (d. 1827)

★ December 17 - Nathaniel Macon, American politician (d. 1837)

★ December 25 - Benjamin Pierce, American politician (d. 1839)
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Deaths

★ January 9 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (born 1657)

★ January 19 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (born 1664)

★ March 1 - Edward Moore, English writer (born 1712)

★ March 8 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (born 1701)

★ March 12 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (born 1696)

★ March 14 - John Byng, British admiral (executed) (born 1704)

★ March 27 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (born 1717)

★ May 6 - Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal (born 1705)

★ May 6 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (born 1683)

★ May 6 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (born 1684)

★ July 23 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (born 1685)

★ August 28 - David Hartley, English philosopher (born 1705)

★ October 17 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (born 1683)

★ October 25 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (born 1672)

★ October 30 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (born 1699)

★ November 12 - Colley Cibber, English poet (born 1671)

★ December 11 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (born 1675)
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