While in Paris, Rousseau became a close friend of French philosopher Diderot and, beginning with some articles on music in 1749, contributed numerous articles to Diderot and D ' Alembert's great Encyclopédie, the most famous of which was an article on political economy written in 1755.

The Imperial cartographer Johann Friedrich Endersch completed a map of Warmia () in 1755 and also made a copper etching of the galley named " The City of Elbląg " ().

In 1755 Endersch completed for Imperial Prince-Bishop Adam Stanisław Grabowski ( Celsissimo ac Reverendissimo S. Rom.

* John Smeaton produces the first high-quality cement using hydraulic lime since Roman times for construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( completed 1759, following burning down of the second in 1755 ).

Despite the many difficulties, the initial construction was completed in 1755.

The opposite ( east ) end of the house, designed by John Donowell and completed c. 1755, appears equally temple-like, but this time the muse was the Villa Rotunda.

She restored the Senate ’ s powers, abolished most domestic custom barriers and founded the University of Moscow in 1755 During her reign, she ordered the building of some of the most famous structures, including the Winter Palace, although it was not completed until Catherine the Great.

During the aftermath of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, it was determined that there was superficial damage and no fear of collapse, but there were a number of repairs completed between 1755 and 1756.

The parochial church was constructed from the small chapel ( which was built in 1755, and blessed on 24 May 1757 ); the new temple was blessed on 1 August 1850, after three years of construction ( it was finally completed in 1849 ).

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The marble hall, named from its black and white marble floor, was completed in 1755 and forms the lower and southern part of the former mediaeval great hall, which was divided by an internal wall in the early 18th century into staircase hall and marble hall.

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The current church building was completed in 1755 and is the oldest unrestored stone church in the United States.

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Starting in 1755, he resided in Amsterdam where he occupied a chair of anatomy and surgery at the Athenaeum Illustre, later completed by a medicine chair.

* 1755 – The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire.

In a second British act of aggression, Admiral Edward Boscawen fired on the French ship Alcide on June 8, 1755, capturing her and two troop ships.

The first wave of the expulsion of the Acadians began with the Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ) and the second wave began after the final Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ).

On October 25, 1777, Henry at age 41 married his second wife, the 22-year-old Dorothea Dandridge ( 1755 – 1831 ).

The first of these was a collection of essays on the principal truths of natural religion ( Abhandlungen von den vornehmsten Wahrheiten der natürlichen Religion, 1755, 7th ed., 1798 ); the second ( Betrachtungen über die Triebe der Thiere, 1760, 4th ed., 1798 ) dealt with one particular branch of the same subject.

He was born at Altona, Duchy of Holstein ( then a part of the Denmark – Norway kingdoms ), the son of Jacob Struve ( 1755 – 1841 ), and was the second of an entire family of astronomers through five generations.

William Bradford ( September 14, 1755 – August 23, 1795 ) was a lawyer and judge from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and the second United States Attorney General in 1794-1795.

" A noted virtuoso, he played second clarinet to his younger brother Johann Nepomuk Stadler ( 1755 – 1804 ) in the Vienna Court Orchestra.

" From 1755 to 1769 Chew served as Attorney General of Pennsylvania and as the Recorder of Philadelphia, earning a reputation that was second to none.

His second son Nathaniel Alexander was born in 1689 and became an Alderman of the city of Derry in 1755 and died on September 22, 1761, having had with other children a third son, James Alexander, who became the 1st Earl of Caledon.

In 1755 a second inspection placed him in the elite Horse Guards regiment.

Under this law code, Pitcairn became the first British colony in the Pacific and also the second country in the world, after Corsica under Pascal Paoli in 1755, to give women the right to vote.

Bauman University is the second oldest educational institution in Moscow after Lomonosov Moscow State University ( 1755 ).

Esek Hopkins and other Rhode Island Merchants in " Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam " from 1755 ( he is second from the left at the table )

He had no sons and on his death in 1755, the line of the second Baronet failed.

After his defeat with Philidor in the match of 1755 and up to the time of his death, however, he maintained his rank as the second player of France.

* Duchess Maria Josefa of Saxony ( 1731 – 1767 ), second wife of the Dauphin Louis, and mother of Louis XVI ( 1754 – 1793 ), Louis XVIII ( 1755 – 1824 ) and Charles X ( 1757 – 1836 ).

In a second British act of aggression, Admiral Edward Boscawen fired on the French ship Alcide in a naval action on June 8, 1755, capturing her and two troop ships carrying some of those troops.

St. Spiridon Hospital, in Iaşi, opened in 1755, described in a document from 1757 as the largest in Moldavia and Wallachia, is nowadays the second largest in Romania.

In a second British act of aggression, Admiral Edward Boscawen fired on the French ship Alcide in a naval action on June 8, 1755, capturing her and two troop ships carrying some of those troops.

The most notable Johnson was the second Maurice Johnson, known as " the Antiquary " ( 1688 – 1755 ), who founded the Spalding Gentlemen's Society ( the second oldest antiquarian society still in existence ) in 1710.

Pierre Laberge ( 1972 ) observes that Kant's famous critique of physicotheology in the Critique of Pure Reason ( 1781 ; second edition 1787 ) has tended to obscure the fact that in his early work, General History of Nature and Theory of the Heavens ( 1755 ), Kant defended a physicotheology that at the time was startlingly original, but that succeeded only to the extent that it concealed what Laberge terms a theophysics (" ce que nous appellerons une théophysique ").

Algarotti's Essay on the Opera ( 1755 ) was a major influence on the librettist Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni and the composer Tommaso Traetta, and in the development of Gluck's reformist ideology.

* José Celestino Mutis ( 1755 – 1808 ), Spanish botanist ; lead the first botanic expeditions to South America, and built a major collection of plants.

Slippage along it has caused numerous earthquakes, the major ones being those of 1309, 1531 and 1755.

In 1755 the militia was restructured for the war, and Artemas Ward was made a major in the 3rd Regiment which mainly came from Worcester County.

For 1755 a major expedition was planned against the French in America.

Francesco Algarotti's Essay on the Opera ( 1755 ) was a major influence in the development of Gluck's reformist ideology.

In 1723 the Talas Valley, as well as the major part of southern Kazakhstan were invaded by Dzungars who owned it nearly until 1755.

Nevertheless, the CEUS has had some rather large earthquakes in historical times, including a series of major earthquakes near New Madrid, Missouri in 1811-1812, a large earthquake near Charleston, South Carolina in 1886, and the Cape Ann earthquake northeast of Boston in 1755.

* 1755: Division of the Mataram Sultanate, Indonesia, the last major independent Muslim state in Java before Dutch colonisation.

A major expedition by General Edward Braddock in 1755 ended in disaster, and British military leaders were unable to mount any campaigns the following year.

The legendary British commander led a major expedition to the area in 1755 which included the construction of Braddock's Road, a useful but inadequate wilderness road through western Pennsylvania.