* 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 )

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

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

During the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years ' War — 1757 – 1763 ), the British deported the Acadians and recruited New England Planters to resettle the colony.

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

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

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.

In 1757, Massac County was settled by a French expedition, which built Fort De L ' Ascension for use during the French and Indian War ( also known as the Seven Years War.

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.

Following a string of French victories in 1757 in North America, coupled with military setbacks in Europe, William Pitt gained full control of the direction of British military efforts in the Seven Years ' War.

* The Male Coquette ; or, Seventeen Fifty Seven ( 1757 )

In 1752 Frederick the Great chartered the Emden Company to trade with Canton, but the company was ruined when Emden was captured by French forces in 1757 during the Seven Years ' War.

The Battle of Rossbach ( November 5, 1757 ) took place during the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) near the village of Roßbach, in the Electorate of Saxony.

This relationship became noteworthy because in 1757, while Saint-Lambert was away on military duty in the Seven Years ' War, Jean-Jacques Rousseau suddenly conceived a mad passion for Sophie, which he wrote about in his Confessions.

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 French, who were allied with Austria, Russia, Sweden and Saxony during the Seven Years ' War, invaded Germany in April 1757 with two armies, altogether about 100, 000 soldiers.

A feeble Swedish attempt to regain the lost territories in the Pomeranian campaigns of the Seven Years ' War ( 1757 – 1762, " Pomeranian War ") failed.

When Frederick preemptively invaded Saxony and Bohemia over the course of a few months in 1756 – 1757, he initiated the Seven Years ' War which might also be considered the first world war since it was fought in the three continents ( France and Great Britain's colonies ).

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

* Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ), a cancelled British plan to capture Louisbourg during the Seven Years ' War

The accession of Russia to the anti-Prussian coalition ( 1756 ) of the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) occurred over Bestuzhev's head, and the cowardice and incapacity of his friend, the Russian commander-in-chief, Stephen Apraksin, after winning the Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf ( 30 August 1757 ), became the pretext for overthrowing the chancellor.

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.

The Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf ( August 30, 1757 ) was a victory for the Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fedorovich Apraksin over a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years ' War.