* 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 )

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

This led to the Battle of Plassey on June 23, 1757, in which the Bengal Army of the East India Company, led by Robert Clive, defeated the French-supported Nawab's forces.

During the Seven Years ' War the Battle of Hastenbeck was fought on July 26, 1757, near the city.

The British East India Company, although still in direct competition with French and Dutch interests until 1763, was able to extend its control over almost the whole of India in the century following the subjugation of Bengal at the 1757 Battle of Plassey.

Aside from defeating the French during the Seven Years ' War, Robert Clive, the leader of the Company in India, defeated a key Indian ruler of Bengal at the decisive Battle of Plassey ( 1757 ), a victory that ushered in the beginning of a new period in Indian history, that of informal British rule.

* 1757 – Battle of Plassey – 3, 000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50, 000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.

* 1757 – Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years ' War.

* 1757 – Seven Years ' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.

After the Hannoverian guard was defeated at the Battle of Hastenbeck, Herschel's father Isaak sent his two sons to seek refuge in England in late 1757.

* May 6 – Seven Years ' War – Battle of Prague ( 1757 ): Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.

They were succeeded by the third and final dynasty to rule Bengal, the Najafi, when Siraj Ud Daula, the last of the Afshar rulers was killed at the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

The British East India Company gained official control of Bengal following the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

Company rule in India effectively began in 1757 after the Battle of Plassey and lasted until 1858 when, following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the Government of India Act 1858 led to the British Crown assuming direct control of India in the new British Raj.

* Battle on Snowshoes ( 1757 )

By 1757 as the immediate danger to Britain had passed the troops were moved back to Hanover to join a growing army under the Duke of Cumberland and Amherst fought with the Hessians under Cumberland's command at the Battle of Hastenbeck in July 1757: the Allied defeat there forced the army into a steady retreat northwards to Stade on the North Sea coast.

The Battle of Kolín on 18 June 1757 saw 44, 000 Austrians under Count von Daun defeat 32, 000 Prussians under Frederick the Great during the Seven Years ' War.

After the victory at Kolín, having pushed the Prussians out of Bohemia in the summer of 1757, and the cleverly waged campaign in the autumn that saw Lieutenant-General the Duke of Bevern's Prussians defeated at the Battle of Breslau ( 22 November 1757 ), Queen Maria Theresa of Austria believed her fortunes were taking a turn for the better.

The opening of the Sankey Canal in 1757, followed by the Bridgewater Canal in 1761, which halved the price of coal in Liverpool and Manchester England, respectively, triggered a period of " canal mania " in Britain so that between 1760 and 1820 over one hundred canals were built.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

Matthew Boulton and Erasmus Darwin met some time between 1757 and 1758, possibly through family connections, as Boulton's mother's family were patients of Darwin ; or possibly though shared friendships, as both were admirers of the printer John Baskerville and friends of the astronomer and geologist John Michell, a regular visitor to Darwin's house in Lichfield.

Peter Jefferson died in 1757 and the Jefferson estate was divided between Peter's two sons ; Thomas and Randolph.

( h. c .) von Halle " (" Doctor of Theology from the University of Halle ) in 1757, pastor in Altona between 1757 and 1760, " Kgl.

It was constructed by Canadien Michel Chartier de Lotbinière, Marquis de Lotbinière between 1754 and 1757 during the Seven Years ' War, often referred to as the French and Indian War in the USA.

Martini published a three volume history titled Storia della musica ( History of Music ) between 1757 and 1781.

William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire briefly Prime Minister between 1756 and 1757.

They invited the civil engineer John Smeaton to make a new survey, which he did in late 1757, and produced a scheme which involved dredging shoals, making of cuts, the building of 26 locks, to overcome the rise of between Wakefield and the Halifax Brook, and the construction of a reservoir at Salterhebble bridge.

The city was occupied by French forces for six years between 1757 and 1763, as part of the conditions of the Second Treaty of Versailles between France and Austria.

Builders on the north side of the Place Louis XV, as it then was named, between rue de Mondovi and rue Saint-Florentin, had been constrained by letters patent in 1757 and 1758 to follow a single façade plan.

In 1757, after the Cochin Travancore War ( 1755 – 1756 ), a treaty was concluded between Travancore and Cochin kingdom, ensuring stability on the northern border.

At Halle he was influenced, especially in philosophy, by Siegmund J. Baumgarten ( 1706 – 1757 ), the link between the old Pietism and J. S. Semler, while he cultivated his strong taste for history under Chancellor Ludwig.

The bishop took the " Anti-Talmudists ", or " Zoharists ", under his protection and in 1757 arranged a religious disputation between them and the rabbis.

He also wrote a Life of the Right Honourable Robert Boyle ( London, 1744 ); Inquiry into the share which King Charles I had in the transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan for bringing over a body of Irish rebels ( London, 1756 ); Historical view of Negotiations between the Courts of England, France and Brussels 1592-1617 ( London, 1749 ); Life of Archbishop Tillotson ( London, 1753 ); History of the Royal Society of London ( London, 1756 – 1757 ); Life of Henry, Prince of Wales ( London, 1760 ), and many other works.

Carl Stamitz was the first son of Johann Stamitz ( 1717 – 1757 ), a violinist and composer of the pre-classical area who not only composed some of the best instrumental music ( symphonies, concertos ) between Bach and Mozart, but as leader and first violinist also turned the Mannheim court orchestra into the best one in Europe.

The Prussian camp on the morning of 5 November 1757 lay between Rossbach on the left and Bedra on the right facing the Allies.

The Battle of Hastenbeck ( 26 July 1757 ) was fought as part of the Invasion of Hanover during the Seven Year's War between the allied forces of Hanover, Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ) and Brunswick and the French.

The term is used to describe the fighting between Sweden and Prussia between 1757 and 1762 in Swedish Pomerania, Prussian Pomerania, northern Brandenburg and eastern Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

The Battle of Reichenberg between Austria and Prussia occurred nearby in 1757 during the Seven Years ' War.

This duty called him at intervals between 1755 and 1757, and alternated with his attendance at the General Court.