* 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 )

For example, Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755, included the word.

Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as centre and colour ; on the other hand, Noah Webster's first guide to American spelling, published in 1783, preferred spellings like center and the Latinate color.

* 1755: A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson

* Samuel Hahnemann ( 1755 – 1843 ), physician

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary: Selections from the 1755 Work that Defined the English Language ( 2002 )

* Samuel Hitchcock ( March 23, 1755 – November 20, 1813 ) was an attorney and judge in Vermont.

The letter b in the word debt was reintroduced in the 18th century, possibly by Samuel Johnson in his Dictionary of 1755 – several other words that had existed without a b had them reinserted at around that time.

In 1755 Samuel Johnson's Dictionary defined a grammar school as a school in which the learned languages are grammatically taught ;

Dr Samuel Johnson, in his A Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ), defined honour as having several senses, the first of which was " nobility of soul, magnanimity, and a scorn of meanness.

Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann ( 10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843 ) was a German physician, best known for creating a system of alternative medicine called homeopathy.

Early Modern English lacked uniformity in spelling, but Samuel Johnson's dictionary, published in 1755 in England, was influential in establishing a standard form of spelling.

One story, mentioned in Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ), has a Sybarite sleeping on a bed of rose petals, but unable to get to sleep because one of the petals was folded over.

Longman himself was one of the six booksellers who undertook the responsibility of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary ( 1746 – 1755 ).

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

Samuel Johnson published the authoritative work in 1755.

* Samuel Smith ( 1755 – 1793 ), British Member of Parliament for Worcester, Ludgershall and Ilchester

The expression was coined in 1810 by the creator of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann ( 1755 – 1843 ).

* Translations from Samuel Richardson: Lettres anglaises ou Histoire de Miss Clarisse Harlovie ( 1751 ), from Richardson's Clarissa, and Nouvelles lettres anglaises, ou Histoire du chevalier Grandisson ( Sir Charles Grandison, 1755 ).

* Samuel Johnson: A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755

It did not appear in Samuel Johnson's 1755 dictionary of the English language.

In the United Kingdom the author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson, who had some years earlier been unable ( due to financial considerations ) to complete his undergraduate studies at Pembroke College, Oxford, was awarded the degree of Master of Arts by diploma in 1755, in recognition of his scholarly achievements.

The 1755 edition of Bailey's dictionary bore the name of Joseph Nicol Scott also ; it was published years after Bailey's death, but months only after Johnson's dictionary appeared.

Their movements precipitated the somewhat inconclusive Battle of Lake George on September 8, 1755, part of which was fought on the ground of Johnson's Lake George camp.

The modern spelling dirk is probably due to Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary.

Modern English can be taken to have emerged fully by the beginning of the Georgian era in 1714, although English orthography remained somewhat fluid until the publication of Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755.

Johnson later moves on to greater things and James Boswell writes of Johnson's life: " After nine years of work, Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755 ; it had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been described as " one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship.

Today's British English spellings follow, for the most part, those of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ), whereas many American English spellings follow Noah Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language ( 1828 ).

By contrast, Johnson's 1755 dictionary used-our for all words still so spelled in Britain ( like colour ), but also for words where the u has since been dropped: ambassadour, emperour, governour, perturbatour, inferiour, superiour ; errour, horrour, mirrour, tenour, terrour, tremour.

He was one of the syndicate of booksellers who financed Johnson's Dictionary in 1755, and on him the work of seeing that book through the press mainly fell.

In Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ), he derived cricket from " cryce, Saxon, a stick ".

In 2005 he published Dr Johnson's Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World, a biography of Samuel Johnson's epochal A Dictionary of the English Language ( 1755 ).