* 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years ' War.

* 1756 – Jan Śniadecki, Polish mathematician ( d. 1830 )

* 1756 – Dheeran Chinnamalai, Indian Freedom Fighter, Tamil Revolutionist ( d. 1805 )

* 1836 – William Godwin, English political writer ( b. 1756 )

* William Godwin ( 1756 – 1836 )

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.

In 1756 Count Heinrich von Bünau commissioned him to decorate the newly-built Schloss Dahlen.

Count Heinrich von Bellegarde, Viceroy of Lombardy-Venetia (, or sometimes Heinrich von Bellegarde ), ( 29 August 1756 – 22 July 1845 ) was born in Saxony, later joined the Austrian army, became a general officer, and fought in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.

Abraham Ortelius, Theodor Christoph Lilienthal ( 1756 ), Alexander von Humboldt ( 1801 and 1845 ), Antonio Snider-Pellegrini, and others had noted earlier that the shapes of continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean ( most notably, Africa and South America ) seem to fit together.

* Geschichte des siebenjährigen Krieges in Deutschland von 1756 bis 1763.

He was twice married, in 1773 to Karoline Amalie von Mehling ( 1756 – 1791 ), and in 1795 to Amalie von Colomb ( 1772 – 1850 ), sister of General Peter von Colomb.

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

* Ludwig von Baczko ( 1756 – 1821 ), historian ( 1956 ), politician

* Axel von Fersen, senior ( 1755 – 1756, 1760 – 1762, 1769 – 1770 )

* Abriss einer Abhandlung von der Melodie: eine Materie der Zeit ( Berlin, 1756 )

The Köchel-Verzeichnis is a complete, chronological catalogue of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 91 ) which was originally created by Ludwig von Köchel.

He entered under the court sculptor Johann Wolfgang von der Auwera to Prince – Bishop of Würzburg around 1756 who died that year — Wagner then took his master's widow as his bride, she was named Maria Cordula Curé ( daughter of Claude Curé ).

* Versuch einer Geschichte von Flötz-Gebürgen betreffend deren Entstehung, Lage, darinne befindliche Metallen, Mineralien und Foßilien größtentheils aus eigenen Wahrnehmungen und aus denen Grundsätzen der Natur-Lehre hergeleitet, und mit nöthigen Kupfern versehen Berlin 1756 ( Digitalisat )

* Franz Georg von Schönborn, Archbishop of Trier ( 1729 – 1756 ) and Bishop of Worms ( 1732 )

In 1756, he and his descendants were ennobled under the name von Troil.

Prosper Anton Josef von Sinzendorf ( May 30, 1700 – February 9, 1756 ) was an Austrian nobleman and courtier, Counsellor and Chamberlain at the Imperial Court in Vienna, married to Marie Philippine Gräfin ( Countess ) von Althann.

Theodore of Corsica ( August 25, 1694 – December 11, 1756 ), born Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff, was a German adventurer who was briefly King of Corsica.

Georg Friedrich von Martens ( 22 February 1756 in Hamburg, Germany – 21 February 1821 in Frankfurt, Germany ) was a German jurist and diplomat.

* Christoph Anton von Migazzi von Waal und Sonnenthurn ( 1751 – 1756 )

Born in Dresden in the Electorate of Saxony on 29 August 1756, Bellegarde first served in the Saxon army.

* 1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer ( d. 1791 )

* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ) Austrian.

* December 5 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer ( b. 1756 )

French regular army reinforcements arrived in New France in May 1756, led by Major General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and seconded by the Chevalier de Lévis and Colonel François-Charles de Bourlamaque, all experienced veterans from the War of the Austrian Succession.

She led the country into the two major European conflicts of her time: the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 8 ) and the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ).

These wars were the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1744 – 1748 ), the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), the War of the American Revolution ( 1778 – 1783 ), the French Revolutionary Wars ( 1793 – 1802 ) and the Napoleonic Wars ( 1803 – 1815 ).

The diplomatic revolution of 1756, sealed in 1770 with the personal union ( the diplomatic term for marriage ) of Louis, the Dauphin of Viennois, and the Austrian Archduchess Marie Antoinette, was considered both a political and matrimonial mésalliance in the eyes of many Frenchmen.

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 ).

When the king took the field again in 1756, Maurice was in command of one of the columns which hemmed in the Saxon army in the lines of Pirna, and he received the surrender of Rutowski's force after the failure of the Austrian attempts at relief.

The 65-year-old Duncan was a veteran of the wars of the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), the Seven Years War ( 1756 – 1762 ) and the American Revolutionary War ( 1775 – 1783 ) and had fought at numerous engagements with distinction and success.

Lovosice was 1756 the site of a major battle between Prussia and the Austrian empire, at the Battle of Lobositz.

Also during the War of the Polish Succession ( 1733 – 1738 )), the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) and the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) the troops marched through St. Wendel so requisitions had to be paid.