* 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 )

* 1755 – Rufus King, American politician ( d. 1827 )

* 1755 – King Louis XVIII of France ( d. 1824 )

In response, King Louis XV dispatched six regiments to New France under the command of Baron Dieskau in 1755.

His career accelerated from this point, as he advanced from professor to Rector of the Academy, becoming head of the Royal Gobelins Manufactory in 1755 and finally Premier Peintre du Roi ( First Painter of the King ) in 1765.

Louis XVIII ( Louis Stanislas Xavier ; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824 ), known as " the Desired " ( le Desiré ), was a Bourbon King of France and of Navarre from 1814 to 1824, omitting the Hundred Days in 1815.

* Marie Antoinette ( 1755 – 1793 ), queen consort of France and Navarre, daughter of Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa, and the wife of King Louis XVI

He established his home here in 1755 as part of a land grant from King George II of England to his father, in 1740, and called it Green Level.

In 1755 the King appointed him to the honorary office of Vice Admiral of the North.

King Dinis of Portugal ordered the construction of a cloister in Gothic style in the end of the 13th century, which was severely damaged by the 1755 earthquake.

During the 17th century a fine sacristy was built in baroque style and, after 1755, the main chapel was rebuilt in neoclassical and Rococo styles ( including the tombs of King Afonso IV and his family ).

He was a son of Sabilla Blagden and Richard King, a prosperous farmer-merchant, who had settled at Dunstan Landing in Scarborough, near Portland, Maine, and had made a modest fortune by 1755, the year Rufus was born.

After two years ' imprisonment he was released through the kindness of friends who paid his debts, and in April 1755 he was appointed Norfolk Herald Extraordinary and then Norroy King of Arms by the Duke of Norfolk.

In the aftermath of the Lisbon earthquake on November 1, 1755, which destroyed the royal palace, King Joseph I of Portugal took up residence in a huge complex of tents and barracks in Ajuda, on the outskirts of the city.

By 1755, the King appointed him Prime Minister.

Montezuma ( 1755 ) was written to a libretto by King Frederick.

* Sir Robert King, 4th Baronet ( 1724 – 1755 ) ( created Baron Kingsborough in 1748 )

* Robert King, 1st Baron Kingsborough ( 1724 – 1755 ) ( extinct )

Under the terms of the Plantation Grant, he constructed the village of Coagh in about 1755, naming the main square Hanover Square in deference to King George II.

In April 1755 he printed a letter to The Speaker and other Members of the House of Commons, and about the same time an Address to the King and Parliament.

* 1739 – 1755 H. M. Edward I, King of the Miskito Nation

* 1755 – 1776 H. M. George I, King of the Miskito Nation

He moved to France in 1753 before being appointed by King Louis XV as governor of New France in 1755.

The Gothic convent was very much damaged in the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, but the apse has survived, as well as the tomb of King Dinis and his daughter, Princess Maria Afonso.

His works are ( 1746 ), ( 1749 ), ( 1754 ), ( 1755 ), a comprehensive Cours d ' études ( 1767 – 1773 ) in 13 vols., written for the young Duke Ferdinand of Parma, a grandson of Louis XV, ( 1776 ), and two posthumous works, ( 1781 ) and the unfinished ( 1798 ).

The first reference in print to the ship appears in Chapter VI of A Voyage to Botany Bay ( 1795 ) ( also known as A Voyage to New South Wales ), attributed to George Barrington ( 1755 – 1804 ):