* 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 – 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 )

In 1755, Rousseau completed his second major work, the Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men ( the Discourse on Inequality ), which elaborated on the arguments of the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences.

In a second British act of aggression, Admiral Edward Boscawen fired on the French ship Alcide on June 8, 1755, capturing her and two troop ships.

The first wave of the expulsion of the Acadians began with the Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ) and the second wave began after the final Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ).

On October 25, 1777, Henry at age 41 married his second wife, the 22-year-old Dorothea Dandridge ( 1755 – 1831 ).

The first of these was a collection of essays on the principal truths of natural religion ( Abhandlungen von den vornehmsten Wahrheiten der natürlichen Religion, 1755, 7th ed., 1798 ); the second ( Betrachtungen über die Triebe der Thiere, 1760, 4th ed., 1798 ) dealt with one particular branch of the same subject.

He was born at Altona, Duchy of Holstein ( then a part of the Denmark – Norway kingdoms ), the son of Jacob Struve ( 1755 – 1841 ), and was the second of an entire family of astronomers through five generations.

William Bradford ( September 14, 1755 – August 23, 1795 ) was a lawyer and judge from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the second United States Attorney General in 1794-1795.

" A noted virtuoso, he played second clarinet to his younger brother Johann Nepomuk Stadler ( 1755 – 1804 ) in the Vienna Court Orchestra.

" From 1755 to 1769 Chew served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania and as the Recorder of Philadelphia, earning a reputation that was second to none.

* John Smeaton produces the first high-quality cement using hydraulic lime since Roman times for construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( completed 1759, following burning down of the second in 1755 ).

His second son Nathaniel Alexander was born in 1689 and became an Alderman of the city of Derry in 1755 and died on September 22, 1761, having had with other children a third son, James Alexander, who became the 1st Earl of Caledon.

In 1755 a second inspection placed him in the elite Horse Guards regiment.

Under this law code, Pitcairn became the first British colony in the Pacific and also the second country in the world, after Corsica under Pascal Paoli in 1755, to give women the right to vote.

Bauman University is the second oldest educational institution in Moscow after Lomonosov Moscow State University ( 1755 ).

Esek Hopkins and other Rhode Island Merchants in " Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam " from 1755 ( he is second from the left at the table )

He had no sons and on his death in 1755, the line of the second Baronet failed.

After his defeat with Philidor in the match of 1755 and up to the time of his death, however, he maintained his rank as the second player of France.

* Duchess Maria Josefa of Saxony ( 1731 – 1767 ), second wife of the Dauphin Louis, and mother of Louis XVI ( 1754 – 1793 ), Louis XVIII ( 1755 – 1824 ) and Charles X ( 1757 – 1836 ).

In a second British act of aggression, Admiral Edward Boscawen fired on the French ship Alcide in a naval action on June 8, 1755, capturing her and two troop ships carrying some of those troops.

St. Spiridon Hospital, in Iaşi, opened in 1755, described in a document from 1757 as the largest in Moldavia and Wallachia, is nowadays the second largest in Romania.

In a second British act of aggression, Admiral Edward Boscawen fired on the French ship Alcide in a naval action on June 8, 1755, capturing her and two troop ships carrying some of those troops.

The most notable Johnson was the second Maurice Johnson, known as " the Antiquary " ( 1688 – 1755 ), who founded the Spalding Gentlemen's Society ( the second oldest antiquarian society still in existence ) in 1710.

Pierre Laberge ( 1972 ) observes that Kant's famous critique of physicotheology in the Critique of Pure Reason ( 1781 ; second edition 1787 ) has tended to obscure the fact that in his early work, General History of Nature and Theory of the Heavens ( 1755 ), Kant defended a physicotheology that at the time was startlingly original, but that succeeded only to the extent that it concealed what Laberge terms a theophysics (" ce que nous appellerons une théophysique ").

Recommended by the Royal Society, Smeaton designed the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( 1755 – 59 ).

They continued throughout the Annapolis Valley until the British-ordered expulsion of Acadians in 1755 which is memorialized at Grand Pré in the eastern part of the valley.

The first occurrence of the phrase blue law so far found is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of " our Connecticut's old Blue Laws ".

* 1755 – Moscow University is established on Tatiana Day.

* 1755 – Laredo, Texas is established by the Spaniards.

He captured nearby Fort Beauséjour in 1755 and is also known for his roles as second-in-command at the Plains of Abraham, for capturing Martinique, as Governor of New York and also for his participation in the Great Upheaval.

The story is often told that in 1755, Nathaniel Gilbert, while convalescing, read a treatise of John Wesley, " An Appeal to men of Reason and Religion " sent to him by his brother Francis.

* 1755 – Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.

It is Edwards ' most famous written work, and is widely studied by Christians and historians, providing a glimpse into the theology of the Great Awakening of c. 1730 – 1755.

Although Penn began operating as an academy or secondary school in 1751 and obtained its collegiate charter in 1755, it initially designated 1750 as its founding date ; this is the year which appears on the first iteration of the university seal.

There is a picture by Jean Baptiste Oudry ( 1686 – 1755 ) of " Misse ", one of two English whippets presented to Louis XV, in the Washington National Gallery and another, with her companion, " Turlu ", by the same artist in the Musée National de Fontainebleau.

* 1755: The tallest wooden Bodhisattva statue in the world is erected at Puning Temple, Chengde, China.

* November 1 – 1755 Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing 60, 000 – 90, 000 people.

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with his formula, which is equal to Euler's formula from 1755:

The earliest Spanish rendering of Cherokee, from 1755, is Tchalaquei.

Extreme value theory is used to model the risk of extreme, rare events, such as the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

Because the nature of what is erotic is fluid, early definitions of the term attempted to conceive eroticism as some form of sensual or romantic love or as the human sex drive ( libido ); for example, the Encyclopédie of 1755 states that the erotic " is an epithet which is applied to everything with a connection to the love of the sexes ; one employs it particularly to characterize ... a dissoluteness, an excess ".

One possibility is that Messier simply wanted to have a larger catalogue than his scientific rival Lacaille, whose 1755 catalogue contained 42 objects, and so he added some bright, well-known objects to boost his list.

Usually, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Miss Sara Sampson, which was first produced in 1755, is said to be the earliest Bürgerliches Trauerspiel in Germany.