1757

Year 1757 (MDCCLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1757

January - June

* January 2 - Britain captures Calcutta (part of the fighting in the Seven Years War).
* January 5 - Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Louis XV of France.
* March 14 - Seven Years' War: On-board the "HMS Monarch", Royal Navy Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for breach of the Articles of War.
* May 6 - Seven Years' War - Battle of Prague: Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.
* June 18 - Seven Years' War - Battle of Kolin: Frederick is defeated by an Austrian army under Marshal Daun, forcing him to evacuate Bohemia.
* June 23 - Battle of Plassey: 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.

July - December

* July 26 - Seven Years' War - 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 - Seven Years' War - Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: A Prussian army under Hans von Lehwald is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin.
* August 3 - August 9 - French and Indian War: A French army under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm forces the English to surrender Fort William Henry. The French army's Indian allies slaughter the survivors for unclear reasons.
* October 16 - Seven Years' War: Hungarian raiders plunder Berlin.
* October 30 - Osman III dies and is succeeded as Ottoman Sultan by Mustafa III.
* November 5 - Seven Years' War - 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 - Seven Years' War - Battle of Breslau: An Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine defeats the Prussian army of Wilhelm of Brunswick-Bevern and forces the Austrians behind the Oder.
* December 6 - Seven Years' War - Battle of Leuthen: Frederick defeats Prince Charles's Austrian army in what is generally considered the Prussian king's greatest tactical victory.

Ongoing events

* French and Indian War (1754-1763)
* Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

Births

* January 16 - Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834)
* February 20 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist (d. 1834)
* April 9 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833)
* May 30 - Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)
* June 18 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
* June 22 - George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)
* July 20 - Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician (d. 1811)
* August 9 - Thomas Telford, British engineer & architect (d. 1834)
* 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 Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)
* November 1 - Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor (d. 1822)
* November 28 - William Blake, English poet (d. 1827)
* December 17 - Nathaniel Macon, American politician (d. 1837)
* 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. 1664)
* March 1 - Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
* March 8 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
* March 12 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1696)
* March 14 - John Byng, British admiral (executed) (b. 1704)
* March 27 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
* May 6 - Maximilian Ulysses Count 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)

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