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

* 1756 – Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman ( d. 1845 )

* 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.

A youthful exercise in Augustan heroic couplets by Thomas Cooke ( 1703 – 1756 ), employing the Roman names for all the gods.

* 1756 – Thomas Burgess, English author, philosopher and religious figure ( d. 1837 )

The theory of errors may be traced back to Roger Cotes's Opera Miscellanea ( posthumous, 1722 ), but a memoir prepared by Thomas Simpson in 1755 ( printed 1756 ) first applied the theory to the discussion of errors of observation.

Aaron Burr, Jr. ( February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836 ) was the third Vice President of the United States under President Thomas Jefferson.

Examples of his history pictures are The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan, executed in 1736 – 1737 for St Bartholomew's Hospital ; Moses brought before Pharaoh's Daughter, painted for the Foundling Hospital ( 1747, formerly at the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now in the Foundling Museum ); Paul before Felix ( 1748 ) at Lincoln's Inn ; and his altarpiece for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol ( 1756 ).

A member of the Anglo-Irish elite of Protestant background, Grattan was the son of James Grattan MP, of Belcamp Park, County Dublin ( d. 1766 ), and Mary ( 1724 – 1768 ), youngest daughter of Sir Thomas Marlay ( 1691 – 1756 ), Attorney-General of Ireland, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and finally Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench ( Ireland ).

* Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, An Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, Being a Supplement to Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding, Translated by Thomas Nugent ( London: J. Nourse, 1756 ).

Elsewhere, two great practitioners of the art of caricature in 18th-century Britain were Thomas Rowlandson ( 1756 – 1827 ) and James Gillray ( 1757 – 1815 ).

Thomas Burgess ( 18 November 1756 – 19 February 1837 ) was an English author, philosopher, Bishop of Saint David's and Bishop of Salisbury.

** Thomas Cooke, translator of Hesiod ( died 1756 )

In the next fifteen years they would have eight children: Ithamar in 1752, Nahum ( 1754 ), Sara ( 1756 ), Thomas ( 1758 ), Artemas Jr. ( 1762 ), Henry Dana ( 1768 ), Martha ( 1760 ) and Maria ( 1764 ).

There are documented and surviving examples of carpets from three 18th-century manufactories: Exeter ( 1756 – 1761, owned by Claude Passavant, 3 extant carpets ), Moorfields ( 1752 – 1806, owned by Thomas Moore, 5 extant carpets ), and Axminster ( 1755 – 1835, owned by Thomas Whitty, numerous extant carpets ).

* Thomas Jones of Denbigh ( 1756 – 1820 ), minister and author

* Thomas Jones ( mathematician ) ( 1756 – 1807 ), English mathematician and academic

Thomas Rowlandson ( 13 July 1756 – 21 April 1827 ) was an English artist and caricaturist.

* April 22 – Thomas Rowlandson, English artist and caricaturist ( born 1756 )

* Lady Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne ( 1776-1862 ); married Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester ( 28 April 1756 – 4 July 1826 ) in 1801 and had issue.

* George Thomas ( soldier ) ( c. 1756 – 1802 ), Irish mercenary, active in 18th century India, also known as the " Irish Raja "

Named after its founders — Thomas Burgess ( 1756 – 1837 ), Thomas Bowdler ( 1754 – 1825 ) and Thomas Phillips ( 1760 – 1851 ) — it is a resource for teaching, research and scholarship within the University.

Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester PC, PC ( Ire ), FRS ( 28 April 1756 – 4 July 1826 ), styled The Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1768 until 1783, The Right Honourable Thomas Pelham from 1783 to 1801, and then known as Lord Pelham until 1805, was a British Whig politician.

* Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort ( 1709 – 1756 ), younger son of Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort

** Charles Douglas, Earl of Drumlanrig ( 1726 – 1756 ), younger son of the 3rd Duke, died without issue

John Talbot ( d. 1756 ), younger son of the first Baron, and his wife the Hon.

Henry Boyle, younger son of the first Earl of Orrery, was created Earl of Shannon in 1756.

Like his younger brother he was an influential statesman and served as Prime Minister from 1754 to 1756 and from 1757 to 1762.

Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort ( 12 September 1709 – 28 October 1756 ) was the younger son of Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, and his second wife, Rachel Noel.

His mother's name was Diana, and his sister's name was Sarah, three years younger than Samuel Jr. Hearne joined the British Royal Navy in 1756 at the age of 12 as midshipman under the fighting captain Samuel Hood.

His younger brother, another Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn ( 1684 – 1764 ) was general admiral of the Russian fleet ( 1756 )