Benjamin Holden in 1756 bought four mainland tracts and the island between his plantation and the ocean.

The College of Arms, as it looked in the 18th century, engraved by Benjamin Cole ( instrument maker ) | Benjamin Cole, and published in William Maitland's " The History and Survey of London From Its Evolution to the Present Time " in 1756

* Benjamin Mildmay, 19th Baron FitzWalter ( 1672 – 1756 ) ( created Earl FitzWalter in 1730 )

* Benjamin Mildmay, 1st Earl FitzWalter, 19th Baron FitzWalter ( 1672 – 1756 ) ( barony abeyant 1756 )

* Benjamin Franklin, who received an honorary master's degree from The College of William and Mary in 1756, and doctorates from the University of St. Andrews in 1759 and the University of Oxford in 1762 for his scientific accomplishments.

Benjamin Smith ( January 10, 1756 – January 26, 1826 ) was the 16th Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina from 1810 to 1811.

Henry was the earliest patron of Benjamin West, who lodged in Henry's home in Lancaster in 1756 and painted portraits of William and Ann Henry, probably shortly after their marriage.

His first learned production was a Latin translation of Benjamin Kennicott's Dissertation on the State of the Printed Hebrew Text of the Old Testament ( 1756 ), which was followed the next year by an essay in which he expounded his own critical principles.

* Benjamin Brown ( politician ) ( 1756 – 1831 ), member of the 14th United States Congress

* Benjamin Mildmay, 1st Earl Fitzwalter 7 May 1741 – 29 February 1756

He worked with Benjamin Franklin to establish a public academy, which became the Philadelphia College and then the University of Pennsylvania, and served as President of the school's Board of Regents from 1756 to 1764.

In 1756, Benjamin Franklin used the inn as a recruitment gathering point for the Pennsylvania militia as it prepared to fight Native American uprisings.

Built in 1756 in present-day Franklin County

In 1789, Reverend Richard Wood ( 1756 – 1831 ) established Forks-of-the-River Baptist Church, which reported a congregation of 22 in 1790.

His supervisor in Brussels, Count Cobenzl, reported in 1756 that " music takes up the best part of his time.

Grand Master E. Pinto de Fonseca ( Grand Master in 1756 ) was a freemason, and others ( including Grand Master De Rohan ( 1775 to 1797 ) are reported also to have been freemasons, and influential in the spread of freemasonry in Malta.

* Robert Hunter Morris ( 1700 – 1764 ), Lieutenant Governor of Colonial Pennsylvania from 1754 to 1756

In 1756, Pennsylvania Governor Morris, in his Declaration of War against the Lenni Lenape ( Delaware ) people, offered " 130 Pieces of Eight, for the Scalp of Every Male Indian Enemy, above the Age of Twelve Years ," and " 50 Pieces of Eight for the Scalp of Every Indian Woman, produced as evidence of their being killed.

Abraham Ortelius, Theodor Christoph Lilienthal ( 1756 ), Alexander von Humboldt ( 1801 and 1845 ), Antonio Snider-Pellegrini, and others had noted earlier that the shapes of continents on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean ( most notably, Africa and South America ) seem to fit together.

Also important was the 1756 rediscovery of concrete ( based on hydraulic lime mortar ) by the British engineer John Smeaton, which had been lost for 1300 years.

Lotbinière, who may have won the job of building the fort only because he was related to Governor Vaudreuil, had lost a bid to become Canada's chief engineer to Nicolas Sarrebource de Pontleroy, one of the two surveying engineers, in 1756, all of which may explain the highly negative report.

In February 1756 Amherst was appointed commissar to the Hessian forces that had been assembled to defend Hanover as part of the Army of Observation: as it appeared likely a French invasion attempt against Britain itself was imminent, Amherst was ordered in April to arrange the transportation of thousands of the Germans to southern England to bolster Britain's defences.

# Maria Teresa of Savoy ( 31 January 1756 – 2 June 1805 ) married Charles, Count of Artois in 1773, had issue.

Lititz was founded by members of the Moravian Church in 1756, and was named after a castle ( mentioned form of name is German ; Czech name of this castle is Litice ) in Bohemia near the village of Kunvald where the ancient Bohemian Brethren's Church had been founded in 1457.

The term zeolite was originally coined in 1756 by Swedish mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, who observed that upon rapidly heating the material stilbite, it produced large amounts of steam from water that had been adsorbed by the material.

The landscape gardener William Emes had begun work at Kedleston in 1756, and he continued in Curzon's employ until 1760 ; however, it was Adam who was the guiding influence.

John Tunnicliff purchased of a patent that included the town from David Schuyler and others in 1756, but had to abandon attempts to settle the town until after the French and Indian War.

In 1756 ( when Henry Pelham had died without male issue and it was apparent that the Duke was to have no children of his own ) the Duke was also made Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, in the County of Stafford, with remainder to his nephew Henry Clinton, 9th Earl of Lincoln.

His widow, Martha Jane Huskey Ogle ( 1756 – 1827 ), moved the family to Virginia, where she had relatives.

He married Princess Isabella of Parma in October 1760 — a union fashioned to bolster the 1756 defensive pact between France and Austria ( the bride's mother was the eldest daughter of the incumbent King of France )— with whom he had his only child, Maria Theresa.

The British victory in the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), known in British America as the French and Indian War, had been won only at a great financial cost.

Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).

His first wife Rebecca Mendez Furtado ( married 2 April 1756 ), by whom he had a daughter Rachel, died on 1 February 1765.

Early in 1756, Siraj Ud Daulah had succeeded his grandfather Alivardi Khan as Nawab of Bengal.

By Christmas 1756, as no response had been received to diplomatic letters to the Nawab, Admiral Charles Watson and Clive were dispatched to attack the Nawab's army and remove him from Calcutta by force.

# Elizabeth Grenville ( 24 October 1756 – 21 December 1842 ), who married the 1st Earl of Carysfort ( 12 August 1751 – 7 April 1828 ) on 12 April 1787 and had three daughters.

By 1756, Oldham had emerged as centre of the hatting industry in England.

Four years later, on 17 June 1756 he lost his wife Erdmuthe Dorothea, who had been his counselor and confidante in all his work.

This resulted in the Militia ( or Marine ) Pattern of 1756 and the Short Land Pattern of 1768, which both had a barrel.

He also wrote a Life of the Right Honourable Robert Boyle ( London, 1744 ); Inquiry into the share which King Charles I had in the transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan for bringing over a body of Irish rebels ( London, 1756 ); Historical view of Negotiations between the Courts of England, France and Brussels 1592-1617 ( London, 1749 ); Life of Archbishop Tillotson ( London, 1753 ); History of the Royal Society of London ( London, 1756 – 1757 ); Life of Henry, Prince of Wales ( London, 1760 ), and many other works.

He moved to Marburg in 1756, partly because he had studied there under the famous Christian Wolff, and embodied the philosophical principles of his master in his own theological teaching.