* August 26 – Elisha Williams, American rector of Yale College ( d. 1755 )

He studied theology and was ordained in 1749, tutoring at Yale from that year until 1755.

* Old Walton Bridge ( 1755 ), Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States

Elisha Williams ( August 24, 1694 – July 24, 1755 ) was a Congregational minister, legislator, jurist, and rector of Yale College from 1726 to 1739.

Benjamin Gale, son-in-law of Jared Eliot, a Corporation member, had published a pamphlet arguing for discontinuation of the colonial grant to the college, and no grant was given in 1755.

Governor Dinwiddie rewarded Washington in 1755 with a commission as " Colonel of the Virginia Regiment and Commander in Chief of all forces now raised in the defense of His Majesty's Colony " and gave him the task of defending Virginia's frontier.

The story is often told that in 1755, Nathaniel Gilbert, while convalescing, read a treatise of John Wesley, " An Appeal to men of Reason and Religion " sent to him by his brother Francis.

But nine years of practice, with a great variety of players, had authorized him to look for neither superior nor equal ; and when, in 1755, a match was arranged between the pupil and his master, who was still at the height of his strength, the result placed the crown firmly and indisputably upon the head of Philidor.

Trinity Church, the Anglican Church in Newport, Rhode Island, offered him an opportunity to become its minister, but he turned the offer down to become pastor of the Second Congregational Church in Newport, Rhode Island from 1755 until 1777.

In 1755 the King appointed him to the honorary office of Vice Admiral of the North.

In 1755 he reappeared in Podolia, gathered a group of local adherents, and began to preach the " revelations " which were communicated to him by the Dönmeh in Salonica.

In 1755 the Countess Althann died, and Metastasio was reduced to the society which gathered round him in the bourgeois house of the Martinez.

While his All Souls fellowship gave him £ 70 a year, records show that the lecture series brought him £ 116, £ 226 and £ 111 a year respectively from 1753 to 1755 — a total of £ in terms.

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.

Pelham appointed him Master of the Horse, a post he held until 1755 and which necessitated his leaving the House of Commons for the House of Lords by writ of acceleration as Baron Cavendish and joining the Privy Council.

This duty called him at intervals between 1755 and 1757, and alternated with his attendance at the General Court.

When hostilities broke out between the British and French colonies in North America, d ' Estaing considered joining the forces of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm that sailed in 1755, but his family dissuaded him from doing so.

In 1755 he travelled in Germany, proceeded as far as Strasbourg and Nancy, and returned by way of Germany into Italy, taking with him two young sons or nephews of the prince of Hohenlohe, who had requested him to take charge of their education.

Louis François de Bourbon, prince de Conti, interested himself in the Protestants in 1755, and in July Rabaut visited him.

By 1755, the King appointed him Prime Minister.

In August 1755 he followed Keppel to the Swiftsure, and in January 1756 to the Torbay, in which he continued till his promotion to commander's rank on 21 September 1759, and during this time was present in the expedition to Basque Roads in 1757, at the reduction of Gorée in 1758, and in the blockade of Brest in 1759, up to within two months of the battle of Quiberon Bay, from which his promotion just excluded him.

In 1755, when the Gaon was thirty-five, Rabbi Jonathan Eybeschütz, then sixty-five years old, applied to him for an examination of and decision concerning his amulets, which were a subject of discord between himself and Rabbi Jacob Emden.

Fort Wentworth built in 1755 at Northumberland, New Hampshire was built by his order and named after him.

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

Azulai's scholarship made him so famous that in 1755 he was chosen as meshullach, ( emissary ), an honor bestowed on such men only as were, by their learning, well fitted to represent the Holy Land in Europe, where the people looked upon a rabbi from the land of Israel as a model of learning and piety.

He is frequently said to have been present at the defeat of Braddock's expedition in 1755, but this appears to confuse him with his son John Montresor, who was wounded in the battle ( some accounts suggest illness prevented the father's presence ).

He left Oxford after taking his degree in 1755, and, having been entered at Lincoln's Inn before his return to London, he was called to the bar in 1757.

Upon his return to the United States in 1787, he became a promoter of the ship Columbia Rediviva's voyage around the world under command of Captain Robert Gray ( 1755 – 1806 ).

During his stay in Venice he received subdeacon's orders, and on his return to France in 1755 was made a papal councillor of state.

The fine ceiling in the ladies ' boudoir, on ' Music and Entertainment ', was painted by Andieu de Clermont prior to his return to France in 1755.

He captured nearby Fort Beauséjour in 1755 and is also known for his roles as second-in-command at the Plains of Abraham, for capturing Martinique, as Governor of New York and also for his participation in the Great Upheaval.

In 1755, the vast majority of the French population ( the Acadians ) were expelled and replaced by New England Planters who arrived between 1759-1768.

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.

British operations in 1755, 1756 and 1757 in the frontier areas of Pennsylvania and New York all failed, due to a combination of poor management, internal divisions, and effective French and Indian offense.

In response, King Louis XV dispatched six regiments to New France under the command of Baron Dieskau in 1755.

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet, was an Irish pioneer and army officer in colonial New York, and the British Superintendent of Indian Affairs from 1755 to 1774.

* William Stephens Smith ( 1755 – 1816 ), member of the U. S. House of Representatives from New York ( 1813 – 1816 ) and son-in-law of President John Adams

While it is possible that some Acadians did arrive prior to 1755 and in-between 1755-1764, the first documented group of Acadians families: 20 individuals arrived in New Orleans in February 1764.

* William Stephens Smith ( 1755 – 1816 ), 1789 U. S. Marshal for New York district and son-in-law of President John Adams

* Edward Duyker Citizen Labillardière: A Naturalist ’ s Life in Revolution and Exploration ( 1755 — 1834 ), Miegunyah / Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2003, ISBN 0-522-85010-3, Paperback reprint, 2004, ISBN 0-522-85160-6, pp. 383 ( including notes, glossaries, zoological, botanical and general index ), 12 maps, 18 black and white plates New South Wales Premier ’ s General History Prize, 2004.

North of the mountain ridge known as Cape Horn, near the Connecticut River, are the remains of Fort Wentworth, built by the New Hampshire Militia in 1755 during the French and Indian War.

* John Condit ( 1755 – 1834 ), United States Representative and a United States Senator from New Jersey.

Hopewell Township was incorporated by Royal charter on March 1, 1755, and incorporated by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21, 1798.

Resigning from the ministry, he studied law and practiced at New Haven from 1753 to 1755, when he returned to the ministry for 22 years.

During the 1755 Expulsion of the Acadians the majority of those Acadians remaining were deported to various locations along the eastern seaboard of the Thirteen Colonies, most notably New England and Maryland.

Many of these forts were garrisoned by the Troupes de la Marine, the only regular soldiers in New France between 1682 and 1755.

The Acadians, the francophone inhabitants of Acadia ( modern Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and northern Maine ), were expelled from their homeland between 1755 and 1763 by the British.

It was renamed Nova Scotia ( New Scotland ) in the aftermath of the 1755 expulsion of most of the Acadians by the English.

In 1755, he immigrated to New France in North America.

Historic examples of intraplate earthquakes include those in Mineral, Virginia in 2011 ( estimated magnitude 5. 8 ), New Madrid in 1811 and 1812 ( estimated magnitude as high as 8. 1 ), the Boston ( Cape Ann ) earthquake of 1755 ( estimated magnitude 6. 0 to 6. 3 ), earthquakes felt in New York City in 1737 and 1884 ( both quakes estimated at about 5. 5 magnitude ), and the Charleston earthquake in South Carolina in 1886 ( estimated magnitude 6. 5 to 7. 3 ).

Despite the fact that he had no formal legal training, Sherman was urged to read for the bar exam by a local lawyer and was admitted to the Bar of Litchfield, Connecticut in 1754, during which he wrote A Caveat Against Injustice and was chosen to represent New Milford in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1755 to 1758 and from 1760 to 1761.

Matthew Leydt ( 1755 – 1783 ) was the first graduate of Queen's College ( now Rutgers University ) in New Brunswick, New Jersey.