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* 1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
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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.
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 )
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 Saint
Saint Herman of Alaska ( born 1756 or 1760 in Serpukhov, Russia – died December 13 or November 15, 1837 on Spruce Island, Alaska ) was one of the first Eastern Orthodox missionaries to the New World, and is considered by Orthodox Christians to be the patron saint of the Americas.
Thomas Burgess ( 18 November 1756 – 19 February 1837 ) was an English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury.
It was built in 1756 and remodelled in 1853 with wall paintings of Saint Anthony and Saint Florian on the side walls.
1756 and Petersburg
In 1756, the empress issued a decree on the establishment of the first permanent public theatre in St. Petersburg under the guidance of Alexander Sumarokov.
Together with his friend Fyodor Volkov he inaugurated the first Russian theatre in his native Yaroslavl ( 1750 ), later moving with the rest of the troupe to St Petersburg ( 1756 ).
1756 and Bartolomeo
The Great Hall, or the Light Gallery as it was called in the 18th century, is a formal apartment in the Russian baroque style designed by Bartolomeo Rastrelli between 1752 and 1756.
1756 and newly-built
1756 and Palace
The inlaid floor of the Rotonda is based on the Lion Court of the Alhambra Palace, Granada, while the ceiling of the Stair Hall is influenced by Coleshill, Berkshire, attributed to Inigo Jones, and included in Isaac Ware ’ s A Complete Body of Architecture ( 1756 ).
However, he was not employed only in Sicily, since in 1756 he journeyed to Naples to aid Vanvitelli and Ferdinando Fuga in the construction of the marble Palace of Caserta.
1756 and Empress
Construction lasted for four years and on 30 July 1756 the architect presented the brand-new 325-meter-long palace to the Empress, her dazed courtiers, and stupefied foreign ambassadors.
Bjelovar is not an ancient town ; it was first mentioned in 1413 and only gained importance when a new fort was built there in 1756, at the command of the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.
* Karoline ( July 13, 1776 – November 13, 1841 ) married on March 9, 1797 the then Count Palatine Maximilian of Zweibrücken ( May 27, 1756 – October 13, 1825 as his second wife ( and became maternal grandmother of Empress Sisi and her husband Franz Joseph I of Austria ).
1756 and Elizabeth
Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, as the College of New Jersey, the university moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756 and was renamed Princeton University in 1896 .< ref >
The reign of Peter I's daughter Elizabeth in 1741 – 62 saw Russia's participation in the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ).
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.
Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).
# Elizabeth Grenville ( 24 October 1756 – 21 December 1842 ), who married the 1st Earl of Carysfort ( 12 August 1751 – 7 April 1828 ) on 12 April 1787 and had three daughters.
They had five daughters ( Mary ( 1748 – 1788 ), Anna Marie ( 1749 – 1812 ), Elizabeth ( 1751 – 1815 ), Sarah ( 1753 – 1810 ), and Henrietta ( 1755 – 1756 )) before Mary died.
Between 1697 and 1756 Elizabeth Harvey, followed by her daughter-in-law Ann Harvey Slayton, operated a successful tavern in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The Baronetcy, of Blagdon in the County of Northumberland, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1756 for Matthew White, with remainder to the heirs male of his sister Elizabeth, wife of Matthew Ridley.
Ponsonby was the second surviving son of the Honourable John Ponsonby, speaker of the Irish House of Commons ( 1756 – 71 ), and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish ( 1723 – 1796 ), daughter of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire.
In about 1756 – 57 William Kent, a usurer from Norfolk, married Elizabeth Lynes, the daughter of a grocer from Lyneham.
Elizabeth Elstob ( 1683 – 1756 ), the ' Saxon Nymph ,' was born and brought up in the Quayside area of Newcastle upon Tyne, and, like Mary Astell of Newcastle, is nowadays regarded as one of the first English feminists.
* Sergei Grigoriyevich ( 1707 – 1756 ) played a significant role during the reign of Elizabeth Petrovna.
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