The Europeans eventually abandoned the area completely in 1755 following an earthquake which destroyed most of the town.

In October and November 1755 he took part in Eagles capture of one French warship and the sinking of another, following which he was promoted to boatswain in addition to his other duties.

In 1755 he was admitted to the Bar of the Lower Counties, as Delaware was then known, and likewise in the Province of Pennsylvania the following year.

From September 1755 to June 1763 the vast majority of Acadians are deported to one of the following British Colonies in America: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia.

Unfortunately, due to the fire following the earthquake of 1755, nearly all of the library's records were destroyed, but an extra copy available in Goa, was transferred to Lisbon Tower of Tombo, during the following 100 years.

George Barrington ( 14 May 1755 – 27 December 1804 ), an Irish-born pickpocket, popular London socialite, Australian pioneer ( following his transportation to Botany Bay ), and author.

He then set out for Portugal following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, travelling on the Hanover, which was captured by French privateers.

Moore took command of the British forces in the Iberian peninsula following the recall of Harry Burrard of Lymington ( 1 June 1755 – 17 October 1813 ), Hew Dalrymple ( 1750 – 1830 ), Governor of Gibraltar from November 1806 to August 1808, and Arthur Wellesley ( 1769 – 1852 ), later Duke of Wellington, who all faced an inquiry over the Convention of Cintra on the French troops ' evacuation from Portugal.

They both contested the results, but his father died soon after, and Gage withdrew his protest in early 1755, as his regiment was being sent to America following the outbreak of the French and Indian War.

Unfortunately, a fire following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake destroyed nearly all of the library's records, but an extra copy available in Goa was transferred to Lisbon's Tower of Tombo, during the following 100 years.

In 1755, the antiquarian Horace Walpole praised the ruins in his letters following a visit with the poet Thomas Gray, claiming they were " In short, not the ruins of Netley, but of Paradise ".

The Casa Pia, a Portuguese institution founded by Maria I ( known as A Pia, " Maria the Pious "), and organized by Police Intendant Pina Manique in 1780, was founded following the social disarray of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

In the later twentieth century, following Adorno, the 1755 earthquake has sometimes been compared to the Holocaust as a catastrophe that transformed European culture and philosophy.

* 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 ).

Lagos had become the capital of the historical province of Algarve in 1577 and remained so until 1756, the year following the destruction of much of the town by the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

He was noted for attempting to explain the great Lisbon earthquake of 1755 as a scientific — rather than religious — phenomenon, and his application of mathematical computations to earthquake activity following the great quake has formed the basis of the claim made on his behalf as the founder of the science of seismology.

The following day the British forces attacked Fort Beausejour, and on June 16, 1755 the French forces evacuated to Fort Gaspereaux, arriving at Louisbourg on June 24, 1755.

In addition to those exiled following the Lower Canada Rebellion, it has come to hold particular importance for the rebels of the Upper Canada Rebellion, and for the Acadians, who suffered mass deportation from their homeland in the Great Upheaval between 1755 and 1763.

In 1755 he was apprehended in Edinburgh for his share in the ' 45, and, in the following year, he was tried and sentenced to perpetual banishment.

This juxtoposition of famous icons developed from Belém's important military position along the mouth of the Tagus ; its role in the exploration in India and the Orient ( the Caminho das Índias ); and 17th-18th century construction of royal residences and noble estates in the parish following the destruction stemming from the 1755 earthquake and tsunami.

Later, in 1657, a parochial charity school was set up, which served as the Latymer legacy for the following century until it was rebuilt in 1755.

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

* 1755 – French and Indian War: Battle of Lake George.

Williams was killed at the Battle of Lake George on September 8, 1755.

These raids came to a head at the Battle of Taliwa in 1755, present-day Ball Ground, Georgia, with the defeat of the Muscogee.

Lee was apparently not with the regiment when it suffered disastrous defeat at the Battle of the Monongahela in 1755.

In 1755, he was a wagon driver in General Edward Braddock's attempt to drive the French out of the Ohio Country, which ended the Braddock expedition at what is known as the Battle of the Monongahela.

The British defeated France in Acadia in the Battle of Fort Beausejour ( 1755 ) and then Île Royale ( Cape Breton Island ) ( which also administered Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) with the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ).

In 1755, the British were successful in the Battle of Beausejour and immediately after began the expulsion of the Acadians.

Born to an aristocratic family in England, he entered military service, seeing action in the French and Indian War, where he served alongside future opponent George Washington in the 1755 Battle of the Monongahela.

Another son, William Jr., was killed in 1755 at the Battle of the Monongahela whilst serving with Edward Braddock.

His role in the British victory at the Battle of Lake George in 1755 earned him a baronetcy ; his capture of Fort Niagara from the French in 1759 brought him additional renown.

In 1755, when the French and Indian War widened, he saw action at the Battle of Fort Beausejour.

Their movements precipitated the somewhat inconclusive Battle of Lake George on September 8, 1755, part of which was fought on the ground of Johnson's Lake George camp.

The fort was only capable of housing four to five hundred men ; additional troops were quartered in an entrenched camp southeast of the fort, near the site of the 1755 Battle of Lake George.

They also resisted the initial British occupation of Chignecto ( 1750 ) and later fought against them in the Battle of Beausejour ( 1755 ).

The British ordered the expulsion of the Acadians after the Battle of Beausejour ( 1755 ).

The Acadians and Mi ’ kmaq resisted in the Chignecto region and were victorious in the Battle of Petitcodiac ( 1755 ).

When the war began, the area was part of the frontier between the British province of New York and the French province of Canada, and the British had stopped French advances further south in the 1755 Battle of Lake George.

After the Battle of the Monongahela in 1755, many Shawnee fought as allies of their trading partners the French during the early years of the French and Indian War ( aka Seven Years War ).

He served as Commander-in-Chief, North American Station from 1751 to 1755 He was on the coast of France in 1756, was detached on an expedition to conquer Gorée, a French island off the west coast of Africa in 1758, and his ship the Torbay ( 74 ) was the first to get into action in the Battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759.

* Joseph Warren ( 1755 ) – Continental Army General who was killed at the Battle of Bunker Hill, surgeon