1756

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1720s  1730s  1740s  – 1750s –   1760s   1770s   1780s
Years:	1753 1754 1755 – 1756 – 1757 1758 1759

1756 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature ( Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – Great Britain –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

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

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
Assyrian calendar	6506
Bahá'í calendar	-88–-87
Bengali calendar	1163
Berber calendar	2706
British Regnal year	29 Geo. 2 – 30 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2300
Burmese calendar	1118
Byzantine calendar	7264–7265
Chinese calendar	乙亥年十一月三十日 (4392/4452-11-30) — to — 丙子年十一月十一日 (4393/4453-11-11)
Coptic calendar	1472–1473
Ethiopian calendar	1748–1749
Hebrew calendar	5516–5517
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1812–1813
- Shaka Samvat	1678–1679
- Kali Yuga	4857–4858
Holocene calendar	11756
Igbo calendar
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	756–757
Iranian calendar	1134–1135
Islamic calendar	1169–1170
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 6 (宝暦6年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4089
Minguo calendar	156 before ROC 民前156年
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)