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

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

* 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 )

There are three types of epistolary novels: monologic ( giving the letters of only one character, like Letters of a Portuguese Nun ), dialogic ( giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Letters of Fanni Butlerd ( 1757 ), and polylogic ( with three or more letter-writing characters, such as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ).

* May 10 – Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress ( b. 1757 )

Charles Philippe with his younger sister Clotilde on a goatCharles Philippe of France was born in 1757, the youngest son of the Dauphin Louis and his wife, the Dauphine Marie Josèphe, at the Palace of Versailles.

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

Lafayette was born on 6 September 1757 to Michel Louis Christophe Roch Gilbert Paulette du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette, colonel aux Grenadiers de France, and Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière, at the château de Chavaniac, in Chavaniac, near Le Puy-en-Velay, in the modern department of Haute-Loire.

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 ).

* Princess Marie Christine Leopoldine ( 25 May 1757 Brussels-13 September 1830 Teplice )

# Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roche Gilbert du Motier ( 1757 – 1834 ), the Marquis de La Fayette or General Lafayette ( this name formed in one word, instead of two, after the French Revolution ) a Frenchman who was an officer in the American Revolutionary War, enacted August 6, 2002, posthumously

* Histoire de Marie de Bourgogne ( 1757 )

Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann ( 23 August 1757 – 10 May 1775 ) was a German actor.

* Henriette Marie ( 9 March 1672 – 4 September 1757 )

* 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar ( d. 1757 )

* 1757 – Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess ( d. 1831 )

This manuscript was later revised and published by another German Freemason named Friedrich Mossdorf ( 1757 – 1830 ).

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

In 1757, the Seven Years ' War having broken out, Cumberland was placed at the head of the Army of Observation, a force of German allies paid for by Britain which intended to defend Hanover from a French attack.

His bibliography of the German drama, Nötiger Vorrat zur Geschichte der deutschen dramatischen Dichtkunst ( 1757 – 1765 ), intended to contain an account of all previous German plays, though not complete is still valuable.

She was named Elizabetta Lucia Bartolozzi in London in 1797, the first of two daughters of the highly regarded German pianist Theresa Jansen Bartolozzi and Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi ( 1757 – 1821 ).

In 1757 was made a Lieutenant Colonel and served as part of the Army of Observation made up of German troops designed to protect Hanover from French invasion.

* Roth, formal botanical abbreviation for Albrecht Wilhelm Roth ( 1757 – 1834 ), German physician and botanist

After his studies he went in 1755 as a tutor to Stockholm, where he spent a year and a half as tutor in the family of the minister of the German congregation, and during 1756 / 1757 in Uppsala, studying Old Norse and Gothic with the philologist Johan Ihre, then again in Stockholm as secretary of a German merchant.

Johann Matthäus Bechstein ( 11 July 1757 – 23 February 1822 ) was a German naturalist, forester, ornithologist and entomologist.

* Johann Matthäus Bechstein ( 1757 – 1822 ), a German naturalist and forester.

Saint John of Ávila's works were collected at Madrid in 1618, 1757, 1792 and 1805 ; a French translation by d ' Andilly was published at Paris in 1673 ; and a German translation by Schermer in six volumes was issued at Regensburg between 1856 and 1881.

His first military experience was in the North German campaign of 1757, under Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.

His first military experience was during the Seven Years ' War in the North German campaign of 1757, under the Duke of Cumberland.

| Albrecht von Haller ( October 16, 1708 – December 12, 1777 ), German Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet, reported the case of a German woman who has given birth in 1757 to a daughter naturally conceived with her husband at the age already advanced of 58 years.

* Johann Samuel König ( 1712 – 1757 ), German mathematician

In 1757 during the Seven Years War, young Captain Nicholas Herkimer ( later to be a heroic general in the Revolutionary War ) had his first military command here when the French attacked German Flatts in 1757 and 1758.