The first design, commissioned in 1757, with construction begun with the King's ceremonial placing of the cornerstone, April 3, 1763, was halted in 1764 ; that first design, by Pierre Contant d ' Ivry, was based on Jules Hardouin Mansart Late Baroque church of Les Invalides, with a dome surmounting a Latin cross.

He went to the University of Leipzig in 1757 and took courses in medicine, philosophy, Latin, Greek, physics, mathematics, and aesthetics.

In the following years he collected and categorized a large number of spiders, published together with more general observations on the morphology and behaviour of spiders, in his Svenska Spindlar (" Swedish spiders ", 1757, also known by its Latin subtitle, Aranei Suecici ).

They were much admired by Charles Avison, who with John Garth brought out an edition with English words ( London, 1757 ).

Of his works the most valuable were Bibliotheca theologica ( 1757 – 1765 ); Bibliotheca patristica ( 1770 ); his edition of Luther's works in 24 vols.

In the Eighteen Century, the Venice edition in 23 volumes in folio ( 1740 – 1757 ) appeared, followed by the Parisian Vivès edition, 28 volumes ( 1856 – 1861 ); in 1965 the Vivés edition of the Disputationes Metaphysicae was reprinted by Georg Olms, Hildesheim.

His reports to Carleton are included in his Golden Remains ; an additional letter ( 11 – 22 December 1618 ) is given in Carleton's Letters ( 1757 ), and is in the 1765 edition of Hales's Works.

In 1757 Wilkie published ‘ The Epigoniad ,’ in nine books, based on the fourth book of the ‘ Iliad ,’ and written in heroic couplets in the manner of Alexander Pope's ‘ Homer .’ To a second edition in 1759 he appended an ingenious apologetic ‘ Dream in the manner of Spenser .’ On the appearance of this edition Hume warmly praised ‘ The Epigoniad ’ in a letter to the Critical Review, complaining that the journal had unduly depreciated the poem when first published.

In 1757 his Mémoires militaires sur les Grecs et les Romains appeared at the Hague, and when Carlyle wrote his Frederick the Great it had reached its fifth edition.

Two of his works, the first edition of the ( 1753 ) for plants and the tenth edition of the Systema Naturæ ( 1758 ) are accepted among the starting points of nomenclature ; most of his names for species and genera were published at very early dates and thus take priority over those of others ( in zoology there is one exception, which is a monograph on Swedish spiders, published by Carl Clerck in 1757, the names established therein take priority over the Linnean names ).

Title page of the 1757 edition of Clerck's Svenska Spindlar

' Other famous examples are Johann Philipp Kirnberger's The Ever Ready Composer of Polonaises and Minuets ( 1757 1st edition ; revised 2nd 1783 ) and Joseph Haydn's Philharmonic Joke ( 1790 ).

The 1742 Carte de la Louisiane et du Cours du Mississipi as " Rivière de bon Secours ou Hahatonouadeba ", and then in the 1757 edition of the Mitchell Map as " Hahatonadeba River ", the maps show the transliteration of the Dakota language name for the river ḢaḣatuŋWakpa.

Big Stone Lake is shown on the 1757 edition of Mitchell Map as " L. Tinton ", referring to the Lakota people, also known as Tetonwan (" dwellers of the prairie ").

He became a member of the first class at the College of Philadelphia ( now the University of Pennsylvania ) in 1751 and graduated in 1757, receiving his masters degree in 1760, and a doctor in law ( honorary ) in 1790.

Clive was appointed by the company as its first ' Governor of Bengal ' in 1757.

Until 1900 civil engineering projects were generally managed by creative architects, engineers, and master builders themselves, for example Vitruvius ( first century BC ), Christopher Wren ( 1632 – 1723 ), Thomas Telford ( 1757 – 1834 ) and Isambard Kingdom Brunel ( 1806 – 1859 ).

Richard married first on December 5, 1757, Anne Aylett ( 1738 – 1768 ), daughter of William Aylett and Elizabeth Eskridge ( 1719 ).

In the Galileo affair, the acceptance, from 1616 to 1757, of the Greek geocentric model ( Ptolemaic system ) by the Roman Catholic Church, and its consequent opposition to heliocentrism, was first called into question by the Catholic cleric Copernicus, and subsequently disproved conclusively by Galileo, who was persecuted for his minority view.

John Bird made the first sextant in 1757.

The modern versions of the beverage were first produced in 1757 in Turin, Italy and in the early 19th century in France.

French irregular forces ( Canadian scouts and Indians ) harassed Fort William Henry throughout the first half of 1757.

* Joseph Haydn ( 1732 – 1809 ) had two Kapellmeister positions: first, from ( probably ) 1757 to 1761 for Count Morzin, then from 1761 on for the Eszterházy family.

On August 4, 1757, he married Sarah Orne ( 1736 – 1773 ); their first child was born eight months later.

On September 28, 1757, the first Congregational Church building was dedicated.

James Ewing built the first Little Cumbrae lighthouse on the top of Lighthouse Hill in 1757.

The first Western artist who interlocked lengthy writing with specific images was most likely William Blake ( 1757 – 1826 ).

Easton was first settled in 1757 by men from Fairfield.

Captain Peter Powers ( 1707 – 1757 ), his wife Anna Keyes ( 1708 – 1798 ), and their two children Peter ( 1729 – 1800 ) and Stephen ( b. 1729 ) were the first settlers of Hollis in 1731.

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire ( née Spencer ; ; 7 June 1757 – 30 March 1806 ) was the first wife of the 5th Duke of Devonshire, and mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.

The first settlement where Susquehanna Township now lies was known as " Coxestown " and was laid out by Dr. John Cox, Jr. of Philadelphia on October 2, 1757.

The first settlement at the site of what is now Menard was the Spanish Mission San Sabá and the Presidio of San Luís de Amarillas, both established in April 1757.

At the age of sixteen young Bahrdt, a precocious lad whose training had been neglected, began to study theology under the orthodox mystic Christian August Crusius ( 1715 – 1775 ), who in 1757 had become first professor in the theological faculty.

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

In 1757, George began the first of two major additions and improvements to the home.

Baretti's first notable work was the Italian Library ( 1757 ), a useful catalogue of the lives and works of several Italian authors.

He served under Wolfe on the Rochefort expedition of 1757, when he first met Shelburne, and afterwards in Canada where he was appointed adjutant-general, fighting at both Louisbourg ( 1758 ) and Quebec ( 1759 ).

Following the 1757 death of Martha's first husband, the widow received a " dower share ," the lifetime use of ( and income from ) one-third of his estate, with the other two-thirds held in trust for their minor children.

He was first elected Member of Parliament in 1757.

Montucla in his Histoire de la Mathematique, which was published in 1757:

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

In 1757 King George II gave the Old Royal Library and with it the right to a copy of every book published in the country, thereby ensuring that the Museum's library would expand indefinitely.

English deism, however, was already in decline before Hume's works on religion ( 1757, 1779 ) were published.

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

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

' ( Hume, " Of the Standard of Taste ", originally published in his Four Dissertations ( 1757 ).

He worked for Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales making fanciful garden buildings at Kew, and in 1757 he published a book of Chinese designs which had a significant influence on contemporary taste.

William Huggins ' and Henry Boyd's translations were published in 1757 and 1784, respectively.

Samuel Romilly ( 1757 – 1818 ) who had been greatly influenced by Becarria published a reply in which he strongly criticised the doctrine.

A collection of his entire works was published at Hamburg in 1757 after his death.

The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves ; an English translation appeared in 1757.

James Gillray ( 13 August 1756 or 1757 – 1 June 1815 ), was a British caricaturist and printmaker famous for his etched political and social satires, mainly published between 1792 and 1810.

It is best known as the site of notorious atrocities committed by Indians against the surrendered British and provincial troops following a successful French siege in 1757, an event which is the focus of James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Last of the Mohicans, first published in January 1826.

The Euler equations first appeared in published form in Euler's article “ Principes généraux du mouvement des fluides ,” published in Mémoires de l ' Academie des Sciences de Berlin in 1757.

The Works of Mr Thomas Otway with some account of his life and writings, published in 1712, was followed by other editions ( 1757, 1768, 1812 ).

The Athenaid, an epic in thirty books, was published in 1787, and his diary, entitled Memoirs of a distinguished literary and political Character from 1742 to 1757, appeared in 1813.

He caused engravings to be made, at his own expense, of Bartoli's copies from ancient pictures and published Nouveaux sujets de peinture et de sculpture ( 1755 ) and Tableaux tirés de l ' Iliade, de l ' Odyssée, et de l ' Enéide ( 1757 ).

According to her memoirs, Mary gives her birth in 1758 but the year 1757 seems more likely according to recently published research ( see appendix to Byrne, 2005 ).

In 1757 Bertram published at Copenhagen a volume entitled Rerum Gentium Historiae Antiquae Scriptores Tres.

* Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, whose classic La Belle et la Bête (" Beauty and the Beast "; 1757 ) has transcended the ages, authored forty collections of tales ( dubbed " Magasins " or " Stores ", hence the English word magazine ), published in London between 1750 and 1780.

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.

Roy was trying to follow an itinerary given in the 1757 De Situ Britanniae, and moving Ptolemy's Trimontium made the itinerary seem more logical according to his historical work, Military Antiquities of the Romans in North Britain ( 1790, published postumously in 1793 ).