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* 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years ' War.
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The town was finally reconstructed by sultan Mohammed ben Abdallah ( 1756 – 1790 ), the grandson of Moulay Ismail and ally of George Washington with the help of Spaniards from the nearby emporium.
* 1792 – Joseph Martin Kraus, Swedish composer ( b. 1756 )
* 1756 – Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria ( d. 1801 )
* 1837 – Herman of Alaska, Russian Orthodox hermit ( b. 1756 )
Nevertheless, composers continued to write and study fugues for various purposes ; they appear in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ), as well as modern composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ).
* 1837 – Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury ( b. 1756 )
* 1756 – Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat ( d. 1821 )
* 1756 – Aaron Burr, American politician and 3rd Vice President of the United States ( d. 1836 )
* 1756 – Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Czech composer ( d. 1785 )
These competing claims led to a war in the colonies called the French and Indian War ( 1754 – 62 ), and contributed to the start of the global Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ).
Giovanni Aldini ( April 10, 1762 – January 17, 1834 ), Italian physicist born at Bologna, was a brother of the statesman Count Antonio Aldini ( 1756 – 1826 ) and nephew of Luigi Galvani, whose treaties on muscular electricity he edited with notes in 1791.
German music, sponsored by the upper classes, came of age under composers Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ), and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ).
Fearing that Britain's victory over France in the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1763 ) threatened the European balance of power, Spain allied themselves to France but suffered a series of military defeats and ended up having to cede Florida to the British at the Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ), which ended the Seven Years ' War.
1756 and Frederick
At the end of August 1756, having learned that Austria was negotiating to enlist Russia against him, Frederick II invaded Saxony without a declaration of war.
In the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), Frederick the Great improvised a " strategy of exhaustion " ( see Attrition warfare ) to hold off his opponents and conserve his Prussian forces.
When Frederick preemptively invaded Saxony and Bohemia over the course of a few months in 1756 – 1757, he initiated the Seven Years ' War which might also be considered the first world war since it was fought in the three continents ( France and Great Britain's colonies ).
Newcastle hoped he had managed to avert war in Europe, but in 1756 Frederick invaded Saxony and Bohemia triggering the major European war Newcastle had feared and failed to prevent.
It was King Frederick the Great of Prussia, however, who initiated the hostilities with his attack and capture of Saxony in 1756.
To prevent underground intrigues, Bestuzhev now proposed the erection of a council of ministers to settle all important affairs, and its first session ( 14 March – 30 March 1756 ) proposed an alliance with Austria, France and Poland against Frederick II, though Bestuzhev opposed any composition with France.
The park was off-limits to the general public under Christian V and this did not change until 1756, under Frederick V.
Being a believer in the pre-emptive strike, on 29 August 1756 Frederick invaded Saxony with the bulk of the Prussian army, against the advice of his British allies.
After Frederick had forced the surrender of Saxony in the 1756 campaign, he spent the winter devising new plans for a defence of his small kingdom.
* George Frederick Cooke ( 1756 – 1812 ), actor whose skull was used in Edwin Booth's production of Hamlet
Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin ( 10 December 1756 – 1 February 1837 ) ruled over the German state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, first as Duke ( 1785 – 1815 ), and then as Grand Duke ( 1815 – 1837 ).
Frederick had previously defeated Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), seizing from her the territory of Silesia ; and had successfully defended his conquest in the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ).
He reappeared on the field at the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 ), and during the first campaign conducted the war on the Silesian side of Bohemia ; and in 1757, following the same route as in 1744, again joined Frederick at Prague.
* Princess Louise of Denmark ( 1726 – 1756 ), daughter of Christian VI of Denmark and wife of Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen
Frederick the Great thought so highly of the book that he asked the scholar Christian Garve to do a new translation of it, even though there had been already two German translations since 1756.
# Louis Frederick Alexander ( 30 August 1756 – 20 September 1817 );
On the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War, he contracted an armed neutrality treaty with Denmark ( 1756 ); but in the following year acceded to the league against Frederick II of Prussia.
On February 18, 1756, the Big Sandy expedition, commanded Lewis left Fort Frederick with a mixed force of militiamen Cherokees to raid the Shawnee towns along the Big Sandy and Ohio rivers in retaliation for Shawnee attacks.
* Martin Madan ( 1700 – 1756 ), groom of the bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales
In 1756, during the Seven Years ' War, Prussian troops occupied Meissen, giving Frederick II of Prussia the opportunity to relocate some of the artisans to establish the Königliche Porzellan Manufaktur Berlin.
Early in the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), Hadik executed the most famous hussar action in history: when the Prussian King Frederick was marching south with his powerful armies, the Hungarian general unexpectedly swung his 5, 000 force of mostly hussars around the Prussians and took their capital Berlin.
George Frederick Cooke ( 17 April 1756 in London – 26 September 1812 in New York ) was an English actor.
1756 and Great
Both France and Great Britain were ready to fight for control of the region and both sent troops to North America in 1755 ; war was formally declared in 1756.
* 1756 – The Seven Years ' War begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
Elizabeth regarded the treaty of Westminster ( 16 January 1756, whereby Great Britain and Prussia agreed to unite their forces to oppose the entry into, or the passage through, Germany of the troops of every foreign power ) as utterly subversive of the previous conventions between Great Britain and Russia.
A few months later, on 16 January 1756, Great Britain and Prussia signed a treaty of " neutrality ".
He was summoned to the House of Lords through a writ of acceleration in his father's junior title of Baron Cavendish of Hardwicke in 1751 and served as First Lord of the Treasury and titular Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1756 to 1757.
The community was named for Captain George May, who sailed the Great Egg Harbor River in 1740, and purchased land in the area in 1756.
Leaving Cambridge in 1756, without a degree, he began a series of antiquarian excursions in various parts of Great Britain.
Alexander the Great and Roxana, in a 1756 painting by Italian Baroque artist Pietro Rotari.
It is taken from the heraldic coat-of-arms of the family of William Murray, Earl of Mansfield and Lord Chief Justice of Great Britain in 1756.
When, on 16 January 1756, the Anglo-Prussian, and on 2 May 1756 the Franco-Austrian alliances formed, Vorontsov advocated the accession of Russia to the latter league, whereas Bestuzhev insisted on a subsidy treaty with Great Britain.
In 1748 he was made a Baron of the Kingdom of Prussia, an honour which he received Royal license to use in Great Britain, and in 1756 the barony of Hyde held by his wife's ancestors was revived when he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Hyde, of Hindon in the County of Wiltshire.
* Treaty of Westminster ( 1756 ), establishing neutrality between Great Britain and Prussia
He represented Great Yarmouth in Parliament from 1747 to 1756, when he found a seat for the admiralty borough of Saltash, subsequently transferring in 1761 to Harwich, another borough where the seat was in the government's gift.
In 1756 he was created Baron Harwich, of Harwich in the County of Essex, in the Peerage of Great Britain, which entitled him to a seat in the House of Lords.
He was further created Lord Harwich, Baron of Harwich, in the County of Essex, in the Peerage of Great Britain in 1756 with a seat in the House of Lords.
: Subsidiary titles: Earl of Hillsborough ( created 1751 in the Peerage of Ireland and 1772 in the Peerage of Great Britain ); Viscount Hillsborough ( 1717, Ireland ); Viscount Kilwarlin ( 1751, Ireland ); Viscount Fairford ( 1772, Great Britain ); Baron Hill of Kilwarlin ( 1717, Ireland ); Baron Harwich ( 1756, Ireland )
It was created in 1754 for Philip Yorke, 1st Baron Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain from 1737 to 1756.
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