1757 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1757?
- January 5, 1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.
- March 14, 1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
- May 2, 1757 – End of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757)
- May 6, 1757 – Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years’ War.
- June 18, 1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years’ War.
- June 23, 1757 – Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
- November 5, 1757 – Seven Years’ War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
- December 5, 1757 – Seven Years’ War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
Who Were Born In The Year 1757?
- January 11, 1757 – Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)
- January 16, 1757 – Richard Goodwin Keats, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1834)
- January 19, 1757 – Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
- February 6, 1757 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)
- April 22, 1757 – Alessandro Rolla, Italian violin master and composer (d. 1841)
- May 30, 1757 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, British statesman (d. 1844)
- June 5, 1757 – Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
- June 8, 1757 – Cardinal Ercole Consalvi, Italian Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 1824)
- June 18, 1757 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine political leader (d. 1833)
- June 22, 1757 – George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)
- July 20, 1757 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)
- July 24, 1757 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
- August 9, 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer (d. 1834)
- September 6, 1757 – Marquis de Lafayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
- October 21, 1757 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
- October 26, 1757 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)
- November 3, 1757 – Robert Smith, American politician, 2nd Secretary of the Navy and 6th Secretary of State (d. 1842)
- November 28, 1757 – William Blake, British poet (d. 1827)
- December 25, 1757 – Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (d. 1839)
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