* 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.

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 )

Nicolas-Jacques Conté ( 4 August 1755 – 6 December 1805 ) was a French painter, balloonist, army officer, and inventor of the modern pencil.

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.

* 1755 – French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.

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.

North Kingstown is the birthplace of Gilbert Stuart ( 1755 – 1828 ), the American painter whose portrait of George Washington appears on the one dollar bill.

Giovanni Battista Cipriani ( 1727 – 14 December 1785 ) was an Italian painter and engraver, who lived in England from 1755.

** Albert Christoph Dies, composer and painter ( born 1755 )

Gilbert Charles Stuart ( born Stewart ) ( December 3, 1755 – July 9, 1828 ) was an American painter from Rhode Island.

* Robert Lefèvre ( 1755 – 1830 ), painter

Albert Christoph Dies ( 1755 – 1822 ) was a German painter, composer, and biographer.

Prince Hoare ( 1755 – 22 December 1834 ) was an English painter and dramatist.

** Charles-Antoine Clevenbergh, Flemish painter of still-life ( born 1755 )

* Albert Christoph Dies ( 1755 – 1822 ), German painter, composer, and biographer

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

Rejecting a religious calling, he insisted on becoming a painter, and in 1755 placed himself under Charles-André van Loo in Paris and later under François Joseph Casanova.

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

Among these were German painter Anton Raphael Mengs, Italian Pompeo Batoni, and German archeologist and art theorist Johann Joachim Winckelmann who arrived in Rome 1755.

** Richard Collins, English chief miniature and enamel painter to George III ( b. 1755 )

Henry Bone ( 6 Feb 1755 – 17 Dec. 1834 ) was an English enamel painter who was officially employed in that capacity by three successive monarchs, George III, George IV and William IV.

* July 9 – Gilbert Stuart, American painter ( born 1755 )

* November 17-Franz Caucig, Slovene painter and drawer ( born 1755 )