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1756 was a
leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
Events
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Frederick II of Prussia forces his country's
peasant peasants to grow the unpopular and obscure
potato
January
[http://www.its.caltech.edu/~tan/Mozartreq/main.html]Mozart was born in Austria.
February
March
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March 17 -
St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in
New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
April
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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.
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May 28 - Seven Years' War: The British garrison in Minorca surrenders to the French.
June
*
June 25 - Foundation of *
The Marine Society in London, the [http://www.ms-sc.org world's oldest seafarers' charity].
July
August
*
August 29 -
Frederick II of Prussia 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
* French and Indian War (
1754-
1763)
* Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
Births
*
January 27 -
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d.
1791)
*
February 6 -
Aaron Burr,
Vice President of the United States (d.
1836)
*
March 3 -
William Godwin, English writer (d. 1836)
*
March 4 - Sir
Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d.
1823)
*
May 27 -
Maximilian I of Bavaria (d.
1825)
*
June 6 -
John Trumbull, American painter (d.
1843)
*
June 20 -
Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer (d.
1792)
*
August 1 -
Pierre Louis Prieur, French politician (d.
1827)
*
August 29 -
Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d.
1845)
*
September 7 -
Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (d.
1831)
*
November 3 -
Pierre Laromiguière, French philosopher (d.
1837)
*
Abdullah bin Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (d.
1814)
*
Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, Swedish statesman (d.
1813)
Deaths
*
February 25 -
Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b.
1693)
*
April 10 -
Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (b.
1661)
*
April 18 -
Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b.
1677)
*
July 24 -
George Vertue, English engraver and antiquary (b.
1684)
*
December 8 -
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English statesman and diplomat
*
Bernard Accama, Dutch painter (b.
1697)
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