1756

• Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• Composer Joseph Martin Kraus
• Aaron Burr, third vice-president of the United states and all-around malefactor.
• Revolutionary War general Henry Lee, aka "Light Horse Harry".
• William Godwin, father of philosophical anarchism.
• German Physicist Ernst Chlandi, father of acoustics.
• Maximilian I Joseph, King of Bavaria, 1805-1825

• French dancer Marie Sallé

• The conflict between the British and French in America (the French and Indian War) becomes a general European conflict, later called the Seven years' War:
• Frederick the Great of Prussia invades Saxony.
• The French capture Minorca from the British after Admiral John Byng does not comply with an order to sail there to defend it.
• Col. John Armstrong destroys the Lenni-Lenape (Delaware) Indian stronghold at Kittanning, PA.
• New Hampshire Gazette founded in Portsmouth, with the first printing press in the colony.
• Pope Benedict XIV issues an Encyclical to Eastern Orthodox priests pointing out preceived errors in the Euchlogion, the book descibing Greek Orthodox rites, to avoid when performing sacraments (See: Cheek)
• A stagecoach line links New York City and Philadelphia for the first time.
• Siraj-ud-daulah becomes Nawab of Bengal, and briefly expels the British from Calcutta.  During this time, it is reported that the Nawab had 146 people were crammed into a small airless prison cell at Fort William in that city. After one night, 123 had supposedly died in what was later known as the Black Hole of Calcutta.
• Samuel Johnson, flush with the success of his Dictionary, solicits subscriptions to publish the work of William Shakespeare.

1755 - 1756 - 1757

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