* 1757 – Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer ( d. 1834 )

* 1839 – Benjamin Pierce, American politician ( b. 1757 )

* 1757 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress ( d. 1775 )

* 1705 – David Hartley, English philosopher ( d. 1757 )

Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822 ) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.

* 1752 – Start of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in Burmese Civil War ( 1740 – 1757 )

* 1701 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish scholar ( d. 1757 )

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

* 1811 – Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian diplomat and politician ( b. 1757 )

** Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748 – 1757 ( 2008 ), 768pp excerpt and text search

* Antoine Augustin Calmet ( 1672 – 1757 )

** Canton System, to control trade with the west ( 1757 – 1842 )

* Patriarch Cyril V of Constantinople, patriarch in 1748 – 1757

* 1678 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat ( d. 1757 )

* 1699 – Queen Maria Josepha of Poland ( d. 1757 )

* 1757 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.

" One of Lenin's challenges was distancing materialism, as a viable philosophical outlook, from the " vulgar materialism " expressed in the statement " the brain secretes thought in the same way as the liver secretes bile " ( attributed to 18th c. physician Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, 1757 – 1808 ); " metaphysical materialism " ( matter composed of immutable particles ); and 19th-century " mechanical materialism " ( matter as random molecules interacting per the laws of mechanics ).

In 1757, he married Mary ( Polly ) Howard ( 1740 – 1770 ).

* 1757 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman.

* 1672 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian ( d. 1757 )

* 1657 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters ( d. 1757 )

* 1683 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist ( d. 1757 )

In April 1757 Pitt was dismissed from office on account of his opposition to the continental policy and the circumstances surrounding the court-martial and execution of Admiral John Byng.

In March 1741, the city endured a large-scale attack by British and American colonial troops led by Admiral Edward Vernon ( 1684 – 1757 ), who arrived at Cartagena with a massive fleet of 186 ships and 23, 600 men, including 12, 000 infantry, against six Spanish ships and fewer than 6, 000 men, in an action known as the Battle of Cartagena de Indias, part of the War of Jenkin's Ear.

Sir Alexander John Ball, 1st Baronet ( 1757 – 20 October 1809 ) was a British Admiral and the first British governor of Malta.

Sunbury was once the residence of Admiral Hawke who blockaded Rochefort in 1757 and in 1758 he directed the blockade of Brest for six months.

In 1757 he had formed part of the court martial which had condemned Admiral Byng, but was active among those who endeavoured to secure a pardon for him ; but neither he nor those who had acted with him could produce any serious reason why the sentence should not be carried out.

Admiral John Byng ( baptised 29 October 1704 – 14 March 1757 ) was a Royal Navy officer.

Following the court martial and pronouncement of sentence, Admiral Byng had been detained aboard in the Solent, and on 14 March 1757, he was taken to the quarterdeck for execution.

JOHN BYNG Esqr Admiral of the Blue Fell a MARTYR to POLITICAL PERSECUTION March 14th in the year 1757 when BRAVERY and LOYALTY were Insufficient Securities For the Life and Honour of a NAVAL OFFICER </ center >

George Clinton saw service in the Royal Navy, attaining the highest of naval ranks as Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean in 1737, Admiral in 1747 and Admiral of the Fleet in 1757.

In 1757 as Vice Admiral of the Blue Holburne embarked on a command at Halifax, Nova Scotia to capture Louisbourg as part of the Louisbourg Expedition led by Lord Loudon.

Admiral Saunders, upon leaving the Mediterranean in 1757, took with him his chaplain, his flag captain Alexander Hood, and all six of his lieutenants, among whom was Alexander Holburn.

Admiral Sir Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, GCB ( 19 April 1757 – 23 January 1833 ) was a British naval officer.

In the action that secured the Balearic Islands for Spain ( and resulted in the execution of Admiral Byng ), Entrecasteaux was a midshipman aboard the 26-gun Minerve, and in April 1757 he was commissioned as an ensign.

Admiral James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez ( or Sausmarez ), GCB ( 11 March 1757 – 9 October 1836 ) was an admiral of the British Royal Navy, notable for his victory at the Battle of Algeciras.

* Admiral John Byng ( 1704 – 1757 ), a British admiral, shot by sentence of a court martial.

Admiral John Byng was executed on board in 1757.

In 1757, under the command of Vice Admiral Francis Holburne, Hardy escorted Lord Loudoun and his army from New York to Halifax intending to attack Louisbourg, but the attack was called off when Louisbourg was found to be strongly defended by a French fleet.

Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats ( 16 January 1757 – 5 April 1834 ) was a British naval officer who fought throughout the American Revolution, French Revolutionary War and Napoleonic War.

* April 5 – Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats, Governor of Newfoundland ( b. 1757 )

Wentworth, acting without approval of the General Assembly, in 1744 issued a King's Patent to establish a new town within Brentwood called Keeneborough Parish, named after his friend, Sir Benjamin Keene ( 1697 – 1757 ), English minister to Spain.

The baronetcy next passed to Frederick Evelyn's cousins, Sir John Evelyn, 4th Bt ( 1757 – 1833 ) and Sir Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bt ( 1769 – 1848 ).

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.

Sir Samuel Bentham ( 11 January 1757 in England – 31 May 1831 in London, England ) was a noted English mechanical engineer and naval architect credited with numerous innovations, particularly related to naval architecture, including weapons.

In spite of much effort, it was not till after the publication of Stuart's Athens, in 1761, and of Adam's Spalatro — a statistical description, with many plates, of the palace of Diocletian — in 1757, that the reign of pure and severe classicism began in England, although Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, and Sir John Vanbrugh had all done their best.

It was created in 1789 by Sir Benjamin Thompson ( 1753 – 1814 ), later Count Rumford ( Reichsgraf von Rumford ) and extended and improved by his successors, Reinhard von Werneck ( 1757 – 1842 ) and Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell ( 1750 – 1823 ), who had advised on the project from the beginning.

* Sir Thomas Taylor, 2nd Baronet ( 1686 – 1757 )

He commanded his regiment in the Raid on Rochefort, 1757, defending Sir John Mordaunt in his subsequent court-martial.

Portrait, oil on canvas, of Sir Samuel Romilly ( 1757 – 1818 ) by Sir Thomas Lawrence ( 1769 – 1830 )

Sir Samuel Romilly ( 1 March 1757 – 2 November 1818 ), was a British legal reformer.

* Sir John Keane, 1st Baronet ( 1757 – 1829 ), MP for Youghal

In 1757, Sir Charlton let Shelvock for his own life to Richard Madocks, yeoman, and as Madocks is described in the deed as of Shelvock, he was apparently already tenant of it before this time.

Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole, PC ( 8 December 1678 – 5 February 1757 ), English diplomatist, was a son of Robert Walpole of Houghton, Norfolk, and a younger brother of the Prime Minister of Great Britain Sir Robert Walpole.

In 1757, Sir John Gay Alleyne was elected to the Parliament of Barbados, for the Parish of St. Andrew, a seat he held for the next forty years, with only a break in 1771.

* Sir William Lowther, 2nd Baronet ( 1757 – 1844 ) ( succeeded as Viscount Lowther in 1802 and created Earl of Lonsdale in 1807 )

Field Marshal Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet, GCB ( 10 June 1757 – 11 March 1849 ) was a British soldier.

It is in the town of Corsham, 3 miles ( 5 km ) west of Chippenham, Wiltshire and is notable for its fine art collection, based on the nucleus of paintings inherited in 1757 by Paul Methuen from his uncle, Sir Paul Methuen, the diplomat.

The owners of this colliery were also the owners of Plas Power Hall, which was built in 1757 by the Myddleton family, the name being changed to match an early owner, Sir Henry Power.