1757
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1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).
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Events
- January 2 - The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.
- March 14 - On-board the HMS Monarch, Royal Navy Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for breach of the Articles of War.
- May 6 - Battle of Prague - Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.
- June 18 - 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-Dawlah at Plassey.
- July 26 - 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 - Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf - A Prussian army under Hans von Lehwald is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin.
- October 16 - Austrian raiders plunder Berlin.
- October 30 - Osman III dies and is succeeded as Ottoman Sultan by Mustafa III.
- November 5 - 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 - Battle of Breslau - An Austrian army under Prince Charles of Lorraine defeats the Prussian army of Wilhelm of Brunswick-Bevern and forces the Austrians behind the [Oder River|Oder]].
- December 6 - Battle of Leuthen - Frederick defeats Prince Charles's Austrian army in what is generally consideredhis greatest tactical victory.
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Ongoing events
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Births
- January 11 - Alexander Hamilton, first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1804)
- February 20 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences (d. 1834)
- April 9 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833)
- June 18 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
- 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 François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione, French marshal (d. 1816)
- November 18 - William Blake, English poet (d. 1827)
- 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 (b. 1657)
- January 19 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1764)
- March 1 - Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
- March 8 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
- March 14 - John Byng, British admiral (executed) (b. 1704)
- May 6 - Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
- May 6 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683)
- May 6 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
- July 23 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
- August 28 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
- October 17 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
- October 25 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (b. 1672)
- October 30 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1699)
- November 12 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
- December 11 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)
