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: Braddock Expedition – British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat by French and Native American forces.

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.

Many of his stories are placed in real historical eras and deal with real events: the 1755 war between French and British colonists in Ticonderoga, colonial wars in Africa and both World Wars, for example.

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.

The fort was expanded to its present size in 1755 due to increased tensions between French and British colonial interests.

As his military and administrative assignments ranged from Pensacola to Quebec and covered the years 1755 to 1784, this correspondence, much of it deposited in the Haldimand Collection at the British Museum ( with copies at the Library and Archives Canada ), provides a unique view into the colonial history leading to United States independence.

1755 Fry-Jefferson map showing earlier established colonial borders before the French And Indian War.

The archives of colonial Georgia, where this boast is recorded, hold a 1755 map created by John Mitchell and commissioned by the Colony of North Carolina.

Manuel de Zumaya or Manuel de Sumaya ( c. 1678 – 1755 ) was perhaps the most famous Mexican composer of the colonial period of New Spain.

Hendrick Theyanoguin ( c. 1691 – September 8, 1755 ), whose name had several spelling variations, was an important Mohawk leader and member of the Bear Clan ; he resided at Canajoharie or the Upper Mohawk Castle in colonial New York.

In 1755 Carver joined the colonial militia at the start of the French and Indian War.

Colonel Benjamin Tasker, Jr. ( 1720 – October 17, 1760 ) was a politician in colonial Maryland, and Mayor of Annapolis from 1754 to 1755.

Vincent Ogé ( c. 1755 – 1791 ) was a wealthy free man of color and the instigator of a revolt against white colonial authority in French Saint-Domingue that lasted from October to December 1790 in the area outside Cap-Français, the colony's main city.

" The Un-Canadians ", an 2007 article in Beaver Magazine, includes Robert Monckton, Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, and Ezekiel Stone Wiggins, in a list of people in the history of Canada who were considered contemptible: " Lieutenant-General Robert Monckton, a colonial administrator in British North America, implemented the exile of the Acadians in 1755.

* 1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.

In 1755, following the Battle of Lake George, the Marquis de Vaudreuil, the governor of the French Province of Canada, sent his cousin Michel Chartier de Lotbinière to design and construct a fortification at this militarily important site, which the French called Fort Carillon.

In July 1755, Clive returned to India to act as deputy governor of Fort St. David at Cuddalore.

In 1755 he was elected to his first term as governor of the colony, and served a total of nine of the next 15 years in this capacity.

In 1755 Hopkins was elected to his first term as governor, defeating his predecessor, William Greene by a small margin.

" In 1751 he became the third Chief Justice of this court, which position he held until 1755 when he became governor.

In May 1755 he was appointed Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey, with little responsibility beyond anticipating the death of the aging governor, Jonathan Belcher.

The Royal Charter of March 3 of 1755, created the Capitania of Sao Jose do Rio Negro, with headquarters in Mariuá ( now Barcelos ), but the governor Lobo D ' Almada, fearing Spanish invasions, the seat went back to the bar in place of 1791, being located at the confluence of the rivers Black and Amazon it was a strategic point.

He was governor of French Louisiana ( 1743 – 1753 ) and in 1755 became the last Governor-General of New France ( or Canada ).

He moved to France in 1753 before being appointed by King Louis XV as governor of New France in 1755.

Colonel William Paterson, FRS ( born 17 August 1755 and died 21 June 1810 ) was a Scottish soldier, explorer, Lieutenant governor and botanist best known for leading early settlement in Tasmania.

He was knighted in 1755 and served as governor of the Colony of New York from 1755 to 1757 ( replaced by James Delancey ).

Under the direction of William Shirley, the governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, the original Fort Oswego was reinforced, and two additional forts, Fort George and Fort Ontario, were built in 1755.

Thomas Prence ( 1599-March 29, 1673 ) a co-founder of Eastham, Massachusetts, a political leader in both the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies, and governor of Plymouth ; and a descendant of Mayflower passengers, both of whom were signers of the Mayflower Compact, Elder William Brewster, ( c. 1567-April 10, 1644 ), the Pilgrim colonist leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony and George Soule, ( 1593 – 1679 ), through his grandmother Susannah Barber Perry ( 1697 – 1755 ).

The strategic importance of that bay led to the decision by Montevideo's governor Joaquin de Viana to build a settlement in Portezuelo ( near the Laguna del Diario ) in 1755.

Pigot entered the service of the East India Company in 1736, at the age of 17 ; after nineteen years he became governor and commander-in-chief of Madras in 1755.

Pigot succeeded Thomas Saunders as governor and commander-in-chief of Madras on 14 January 1755.

Nevertheless, all the distinctive Christadelphian doctrines, down to interpretations of specific verses, can be found particularly among 16th century Socinian writers ( e. g. the rejection of the doctrines of the trinity, pre-existence of Christ, immortal souls, a literal hell of fire, original sin ) Christian Thomasius ( 1704 ), Arthur Ashley Sykes ( 1737 ), Nathaniel Lardner ( 1742 ), Dr. Richard Mead ( 1755 ), Hugh Farmer ( at least in the account of Christ's temptation ; 1761 ), William Ashdowne ( 1791 ), John Simpson ( 1804 ) and John Epps ( 1842 )

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.

* George Edward Henry Arthur Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis ( 1755 – 1801 )

In 1752, Dr Price's estate bequeathed £ 100 to Richard's son, the 27-year-old Arthur Guinness to help him expand the brewery, first in 1755 on a new site in Leixlip and from 1759 in St James ’ s Gate in Dublin.

Canon Arthur Middleton, Eminent English Churchmen: Martin Joseph Routh 1755 – 1854, Project Canterbury.

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.

John Smeaton made an important contribution to the development of cements when he was planning the construction of the third Eddystone Lighthouse ( 1755 – 9 ) in the English Channel.

The work in 1755 consisted primarily of beginning construction on the main walls and on the Lotbinière redoubt, an outwork to the west of the site that provided additional coverage of the La Chute River.

In 1755, Marigny commissioned Jacques-Germain Soufflot to design the church, with construction beginning two years later.

The French, who had started construction on Fort Carillon in 1755, used it as a launching point for the successful siege of Fort William Henry in 1757.

King Dinis of Portugal ordered the construction of a cloister in Gothic style in the end of the 13th century, which was severely damaged by the 1755 earthquake.

The fort's construction was ordered by Sir William Johnson in September 1755, during the French and Indian War, as a staging ground for attacks against the French fort at Crown Point called Fort St. Frédéric.

* 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 Act of Parliament authorising the construction of the navigation was passed on 20 March 1755, and was entitled An Act for making navigable the River or Brook called Sankey Brook, and Three several Branches thereof from the River Mersey below Sankey Bridges, up to Boardman's Stone Bridge on the South Branch, to Gerrard's Bridge on the Middle Branch, and to Penny Bridge on the North Branch, all in the county palatine of Lancaster.

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 ).

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.

Following the Battle of Lake George in 1755, the French had begun construction of Fort Carillon ( now known as Fort Ticonderoga ) near the southern end of Lake Champlain, while the British had built Fort William Henry at the southern end of Lake George, and Fort Edward on the Hudson River, about south of Fort William Henry.

Vila Real de Santo António was founded after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and largely expanded in 1774 using the same architectural and construction techniques employed in the reconstruction of Lisbon after the disaster.

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.

When the construction works of the new building were almost finished, the destructive 1755 Lisbon earthquake damaged it.