* 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 )

* April 25 – Karl Ludwig von Phull, German military leader ( b. 1757 )

* Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein ( 1757 – 1831 ), Prussian statesman

* Karl Ludwig von Phull ( 1757 – 1826 ), general

Karl Leonhard Reinhold ( 26 October 1757 – 10 April 1823 ) was an Austrian philosopher.

Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ( 3 September 1757 – 14 June 1828 ) was a Duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach ( personal union ) from 1758, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach from its creation in 1809, and Grand Duke from 1815 until his death.

* Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach ( 1757 – 1828 ), duke of Saxe-Weimar and of Saxe-Eisenach

Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein ( 25 October 1757 – 29 June 1831 ), commonly known as Baron vom Stein, was a Prussian statesman who introduced the Prussian reforms that paved the way for the unification of Germany.

* Karl Wilhelm Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 5 / 12 / 1712 – 8 / 3 / 1757 ), revived the Order as its Sovereign, 1734 – August 3, 1757, renamed the order as the Order of the Red Eagle ( Roter Adlerorden )

* Karl Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Bayreuth ( 2 / 24 / 1736 – 1 / 5 / 1806 ), Sovereign from August 3, 1757 to January 16, 1791, when the two territories were annexed by Prussia

Hans Karl von Winterfeldt ( April 4, 1707 – September 8, 1757 ), Prussian general, was born at Vanselow Castle ( now in Siedenbrünzow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern ) in Swedish Pomerania, he was Lord of several estates.

* HSH Princess Luise Auguste of Hesse-Darmstadt ( 1757 – 1830 ), married Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

More general equations of fluid flow-the Euler equations-were published by Leonhard Euler in 1757.

* April 10-Karl Leonhard Reinhold, philosopher ( born 1757 )

In 1757, mathematician Leonhard Euler derived a formula that gives the maximum axial load that a long, slender, ideal column can carry without buckling.

* 1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years ' War.

* 1757 – Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer ( d. 1831 )

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

* 1705 – Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1757 )

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

* October 23 – Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1757 )

Also, at Kolin in June 1757, at the head of a cavalry brigade, he distinguished himself in checking the Austrian pursuit by a brilliant charge.

In the Battle of Leuthen or Lissa, fought on 5 December 1757, Frederick the Great's Prussian army used maneuver and terrain to decisively defeat a much bigger Austrian army under Prince Charles of Lorraine, thus ensuring Prussian control of Silesia during the Seven Years ' War.

Maximilian Ulysses, Reichsgraf von Browne, Baron de Camus and Mountany ( October 23, 1705 – June 26, 1757 ) was an Austrian military leader during the middle of the 18th century, and a scion of the Irish " Wild Geese ".

** Adam Bartsch, Austrian scholar, artist, and printmaker in engraving and etching ( born 1757 )

The building was destroyed in 1757 by Austrian soldiers during the Seven Years ' War.

In 1757, being then a lieutenant colonel, he was lent to the Austrian army on the outbreak of the Seven Years ' War, and established the Austrian sapper corps.

Johann Adam Bernhard von Bartsch ( 1757 – 1821, both Vienna ) was an Austrian scholar and artist.