La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

Messengers from John the Baptist | John the Baptist in prison, by Josef Anton Hafner | Hafner, 1750.

* 1750 – John André, English army officer ( d. 1780 )

** John Laurance, American attorney, statesman, and judge ( b. 1750 )

* October 2 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War ( executed ) ( b. 1750 )

* October 22 – King John V of Portugal ( d. 1750 )

In 1750, John Michell stated that magnetic poles attract and repel in accordance with an inverse square law.

In 1965 Putnam published John Cleland's 1750 novel Fanny Hill.

* John Venn ( 1750 – 1813 ), Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Clapham

J. C. Calhoun's wife since 1811, Floride Calhoun, ( 1792 – 1866 ), was the daughter of South Carolina United States Senator and lawyer John E. Colhoun, ( 1750 – 1802 ).

* John Connolly ( 1750 – 1825 ), second Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York

The county is named for Colonel John Floyd ( 1750 – 1783 ).

* John Henry ( Maryland ) ( 1750 – 1798 ), U. S. Senator from and Governor of Maryland

* John Clarke ( 1750 ): A Preface containing A General Account of the Life, Character, and Writings of the Author, from the 1750 edition of The Religion of Nature Delineated.

* John Trumbull ( 1750 – 1831 ), American political satirist and poet, was born in Watertown.

In the winter of 1749 – 1750, Adam travelled to London with his friend, the poet John Home.

Paca House ( CE-111 ; circa 1750 ): John Paca, the brother of Governor William Paca a signer of the Declaration of Independence, lived in Charlestown during the mid-1700s.

Its use was described in detail in English in Navigatio Britannica ( 1750 ) by John Barrow, the mathematician and historian.

Among the earliest settlers in the Tazewell area was John Hunt ( 1750 – 1822 ), a militia captain who would later be instrumental in the founding of Huntsville, Alabama.

Dom John V ( Porgueuse: João V, 22 October 1689 – 31 July 1750 ), nicknamed " the Magnanimous ", was King of Portugal and the Algarves.

John V died on 31 July 1750 in Lisbon, and was succeeded by his son Prince Joseph.

* John Bradford ( 1750 – 1805 ) English dissenting minister

* John Rippon ( 1750 – 1836 ), Baptist clergyman, composer of many well known hymns

Records show that John Wesley, one of the founders of the Methodist movement, preached in Roscrea in June 1750.

" Bonhams use a similar definition: "... 4000 B. C to the 12th Century A. D. Geographically they originate from Egypt, the Near East and Europe ..." Official cut-off dates are often later, being unconcerned with precise divisions of art history, and using the term for all historical periods they wish to protect: in Jordan it is 1750, in Hong Kong 1800, and so on.

The average rate for a one room apartment was 602. 27 CHF ( US $ 480, £ 270, € 390 ), a two room apartment was about 846. 52 CHF ( US $ 680, £ 380, € 540 ), a three room apartment was about 1054. 14 CHF ( US $ 840, £ 470, € 670 ) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 2185. 24 CHF ( US $ 1750, £ 980, € 1400 ).

They investigated the practices of a disaffected student of Mesmer, one Charles d ' Eslon ( 1750 – 1786 ), and despite the fact that they accepted that Mesmer's results were valid, their placebo-controlled experiments following d ' Eslon's practices convinced them that mesmerism was most likely due to belief and imagination rather than to any sort of invisible energy (" animal magnetism ") transmitted from the body of the mesmerist.

1670 ), however, a distinctly German style came only after 1700 in the works of Silvius Leopold Weiss ( 1686 – 1750 ), one of the greatest lute composers, some of whose works were transcribed for keyboard by none other than Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), who composed a few pieces for the lute himself ( although it is unclear whether they were really intended for the lute, rather than another plucked string instrument or the lautenwerk ).

According to one widely accepted dating, he was born on 20 November 1750 ( Friday, 10th Dhu al-Hijjah, 1163 AH ).

Accordingly, he visited London incognito in 1750 and conformed to the Protestant faith by receiving Anglican communion, likely at one of the remaining non-juring chapels.

The Jockey Club was founded in 1750, not as a club for jockeys, but rather as one of the most exclusive high society social clubs in the United Kingdom, sharing some of the functions of a gentleman's club such as high-level socialising.

The first tall industrial furnace in the world for iron extracting, it has been argued, was built in 1750 in Topliţa near Hunedoara, and a later one in Govăşdia in 1806.

For the Prague Carnival of 1750 Gluck composed a new opera, Ezio ( again set to one of Metastasio's works ).

Settled in 1750, the city of Winsted was formed at the junction of the Mad River and Still River, and was one of the first mill towns in Connecticut.

Red Lyon Tavern ( CE-128 ; circa 1750 ): The tavern is one of Charlestown ’ s most important historic sites and structures.

In checking with the Historical Society, there are two maps of early Rockland County homesteads — the earlier one dated 1750.

They were given permission by the Wyandot to settle in the Ohio country, and one of their settlements was Maguck, built by 1750 in the area of modern Circleville.

The borough's founder, Eli Lewis, was born nearby in 1750, the son of one of the original settlers, Ellis Lewis.

The Potomac River, which embraces the old town in one of its bends, was navigated as early as 1750.

In 1750 Vergennes was appointed as Ambassador to the Electorate of Trier, one of the smaller German electorates.

Furthermore, he gave his daughter Marie-Louise a considerable dowry when she became a Visitandine nun in 1750, and he paid a pension to one of his sisters when she became ill. Financial security came late to him, following the success of his stage works and the grant of a royal pension ( a few months before his death, he was also ennobled and made a knight of the Ordre de Saint-Michel ).

During the late 17th century to 1750, one of Mexico's most popular architectural styles was Mexican Churrigueresque, which combined Amerindian and Moorish decorative influences.

# Until at least 1750 it was in strict contact with the other Low German dialects along the North Sea and Baltic coasts, forming a consistent dialectal continuum of one proper language.

In 1750 and 1751, the Lennox sisters ' parents died in quick succession, leaving three younger daughters, Louisa, Sarah, and Cecilia, aged eight, six, and one.

A compliment in the preface to the edition of 1749 was the starting-point of a lasting friendship with William Warburton, through whose influence he was appointed one of the preachers at Whitehall in 1750.

March of the Guards to Finchley ( 1750 ), William Hogarth's satirical masterpiece, donated by the artist to the Foundling Hospital. The Committee Room, one of the original eighteenth century interiors, is the room where mothers intending to leave their babies would be interviewed for suitability.

In 1737, Lars Roberg, a physician of Uppsala, made a woodcut of one page of the manuscript ; it was included in Benzelius ' edition of 1750, and the woodcut is preserved in the Linköping Diocesan and Regional Library.

The first stone bridge at Usk, replacing one of wood, was built around 1750 to the designs of Welsh architect William Edwards.

For seven of the eight years between 1750 and 1758 the silver penny was the only one of the small silver coins ( 1d, 2d, 3d, 4d ) produced ; this fact, coupled with the good condition of most pennies of those years which have come to our time, suggests that they were mainly used for Maundy money.