* 1755 – Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

* 1755 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter ( d. 1842 )

* 1696 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( d. 1755 )

* 1755 – Commodore William James captures the pirate fortress of Suvarnadurg on west coast of India.

* 1755 – Under the orders of Charles Lawrence, the British Army begins to forcibly deport the Acadians from Nova Scotia to the Thirteen Colonies.

* 1755 – Nicolas-Jacques Conté, French painter and inventor ( d. 1805 )

Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.

Sir Thomas Grenville ( 1755 – 1846 ), a Trustee of The British Museum from 1830, assembled a fine library of 20, 240 volumes, which he left to the Museum in his will.

John Smeaton made an important contribution to the development of cements when he was planning the construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( 1755 – 9 ) in the English Channel.

* 1755 – The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.

* 1755 – Maurice Greene, English composer ( b. 1696 )

* 1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel, German musician ( d. 1755 )

* 1824 – James Parkinson, English physician and paleontologist ( b. 1755 )

* 1755 – Albert Christoph Dies, German composer ( d. 1822 )

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

* Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian, ( French, 1755 – 94 ), author of Fables ( published 1802 )

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

In October and November 1755 he took part in Eagles capture of one French warship and the sinking of another, following which he was promoted to boatswain in addition to his other duties.

* 1829 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician ( b. 1755 )

* 1755 – French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat by French and Native American forces.

While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.

* 1755 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician ( d. 1839 )

* 1675 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer ( d. 1755 )

* 1686 – Jean-Baptiste Oudry, French painter, engraver, and tapestry designer ( d. 1755 )

In 1755, the vast majority of the French population ( the Acadians ) were expelled and replaced by New England Planters who arrived between 1759-1768.

* Father Le Loutre ’ s War ( 1749 – 1755 ) and theDeportation of the French Acadians.

* 1755 – French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.

* Montesquieu ( 1689 – 1755 ) French political thinker.

* January 29 – Paul François Jean Nicolas Barras, French politician ( b. 1755 )

* January 18 – Montesquieu, French writer ( d. 1755 )

* December 23 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, French composer ( d. 1755 )

* January 16 – Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer ( d. 1755 )

British operations in 1755, 1756 and 1757 in the frontier areas of Pennsylvania and New York all failed, due to a combination of poor management, internal divisions, and effective French and Indian offense.

The 1755 British capture of Fort Beauséjour on the border separating Nova Scotia from Acadia was followed by its policy to deport the French inhabitants.

The British, intending to blockade French ports, sent out their fleet in February 1755, but the French fleet had already sailed.

Wheelock founded Moor's Indian Charity School in 1755.

The British ordered the Acadians expelled from their lands in 1755 during the French and Indian War, an event called the Expulsion of the Acadians or le Grand Dérangement.

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, was an Irish pioneer and army officer in colonial New York, and the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs from 1755 to 1774.

Finally, during the last French and Indian War, the British expelled the Acadians in the Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ), which was followed three years later with campaigns which targeted the Saint John River and the Petitcodiac River.

Fort Bridgman, Vernon, was burned in 1755, a casualty of the French and Indian War.

Later, as a Colonel in 1755, he was to accompany General Braddock on the old Indian Trail that ran through the valley on his way to Fort Cumberland.

North of the mountain ridge known as Cape Horn, near the Connecticut River, are the remains of Fort Wentworth, built by the New Hampshire Militia in 1755 during the French and Indian War.

Granted in 1753 by the Masonian Proprietors, the town was named for Alexandria, Virginia, location of a 1755 conference of governors early in the French and Indian War.

Braddock Hills is located northwest of Braddock's Field, the site of General Edward Braddock's 1755 defeat during the French and Indian War.

During the French and Indian Wars ( Seven Years War ), Native allies of the French killed 11 missionaries and Lenape ( Delaware ) converted Christians at Gnadenhutten on 24 November 1755.

In 1755, General Edward Braddock led an expedition against the French Fort Duquesne, and although they were numerically superior to the French militia and their Indian allies, Braddock's army was routed and Braddock was killed.

Although there is no direct evidence, he possibly took part in the famous French and Indian victory over the Braddock expedition on July 9, 1755.

Born to an aristocratic family in England, he entered military service, seeing action in the French and Indian War, where he served alongside future opponent George Washington in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela.

They both contested the results, but his father died soon after, and Gage withdrew his protest in early 1755, as his regiment was being sent to America following the outbreak of the French and Indian War.

The Braddock expedition, also called Braddock's campaign or, more commonly, Braddock's Defeat, was a failed British military expedition which attempted to capture the French Fort Duquesne ( modern-day downtown Pittsburgh ) in the summer of 1755 during the French and Indian War.

In 1755, when the French and Indian War widened, he saw action at the Battle of Fort Beausejour.

In 1755 young Poor enlisted as a private in one of the Massachusetts units raised to accompany Jeffrey Amherst's expedition to retake it during the French and Indian War.

He joined the British forces in 1755 during the French and Indian War, raised a company, and was commissioned as its Captain by his cousin, Lt.

The fort's construction was ordered by Sir William Johnson in September 1755, during the French and Indian War, as a staging ground for attacks against the French fort at Crown Point called Fort St. Frédéric.

The homes of the Acadians who lived in the village were burned as part of the Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ) during the French and Indian War.