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

In 1756, Benjamin Franklin reported to Governeur Morris that he had procured boards and timber from Kern's sawmill.

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.

Built in 1756 in present-day Franklin County

Although Halley's naming error was pointed out by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1756, the name continues to be used.

Over the next century, the castle vaults were used to hold prisoners of war during several conflicts, including the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ) and the Napoleonic Wars ( 1803 – 1815 ).

It was first used for parliamentary purposes in 1756, and then, occasionally, until 1799, in which year it was sold by the Duchy to the Duke of Norfolk.

Frederick's invasion of Saxony in 1756 was used as a pretext for war, being denounced by both Sweden and France as a violation of the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, of which they were both guarantors.

Beginning in the 18th century crude wagons began to be used to carry passengers between cities and towns, first within New England in 1744, then between New York and Philadelphia in 1756.

The first statute that used this denomination was the Codex Maximilianeus bavaricus civilis of 1756 in Bavaria, still using the Latin language.

These were massively successful, earning him a total of £ in terms, and led to the publication of An Analysis of the Laws of England in 1756, which repeatedly sold out and was used to preface his later works.

During the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) the basement rooms were probably used as military prison.

In 1756 Kennedy allowed the island to again be used as a smallpox quarantine station, and on February 18, 1758 the Corporation of the City of New York bought the island for £ 1, 000 for use as a pest house.

* was a galley used in 1756.

" The donation was used in 1756 by President Thomas Clap to establish the Livingstonian Professorship of Divinity.

* George Frederick Cooke ( 1756 – 1812 ), actor whose skull was used in Edwin Booth's production of Hamlet

In early August 1756, the Lenape used the path to burn Fort Granville near present-day Lewistown and take prisoners.

In March 1756, the Istanbul Jewish Committee for the Jews of Palestine instructed that 500 kurus used by the Jews of Jerusalem to fix a wall at the tomb were to be repaid and used instead for more deserving causes.

In publications issued during Peter's lifetime the spelling Forsskål was used, including in his dissertation issued in 1756 in Göttingen.

Indeed, General Montcalm used the Fort as a staging point to attack the fortifications at Oswego in August 1756.

The name is conserved as the same name had been used in an obscure earlier publication in 1756 for a different plant.

The Gabreil Daveis Tavern House, located at 4th Avenue in Glendora, is a pre-American Revolutionary War tavern that was built in 1756 and for many years served as an inn for boatmen who transported their products to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania via nearby Big Timber Creek.

The link here is the publican " George Martin " who first of all ran the inn called the " George and Dragon " to the West of the River Greta, he then moved to the original " Morritt's Arms " built on the East bank of the River Greta as a coaching inn by the Morritt family of Rokeby, in approx 1756, and he renamed it " The George " as recorded by Dickens ( maybe having left his " dragon " behind at the present Morritt Arms!

His expedition against Fort Niagara got no further than the final staging point at Fort Oswego on Lake Ontario in 1755, and the French captured Oswego in August 1756.

In 1756 Jones published his tractate On the Catholic Doctrine of the Trinity, a statement of the doctrine from the Hutchinsonian point of view, with a summary of biblical proofs.

Following the success of his 1756 assault on Fort Oswego, Montcalm had been seeking an opportunity to deal with the British position at Fort William Henry, since it provided the British with a launching point for attacks against Fort Carillon.

Antlia was created in 1756 by the French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, who created fourteen constellations for the southern sky to fill some faint regions.

Some have stated that the secret of concrete was lost for 13 centuries until 1756, when the British engineer John Smeaton pioneered the use of hydraulic lime in concrete, using pebbles and powdered brick as aggregate.

Nevertheless, composers continued to write and study fugues for various purposes ; they appear in the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ) and Ludwig van Beethoven ( 1770 – 1827 ), as well as modern composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich ( 1906 – 1975 ).

Both France and Great Britain were ready to fight for control of the region and both sent troops to North America in 1755 ; war was formally declared in 1756.

A youthful exercise in Augustan heroic couplets by Thomas Cooke ( 1703 – 1756 ), employing the Roman names for all the gods.

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.

However parliamentary delays meant it was 4 March 1756 before a special act of parliament created four battalions of 1, 000 men each to include foreigners for service in the Americas.

On returning from the continent he expressed a strong preference for the military profession, and a cornet's commission was accordingly obtained for him ( March 1756 ) in the 3rd Dragoon Guards.

In 1756 he was appointed deputy Attorney General for Sussex County.

Pitt's relationship with the Duke slumped further in early 1756 when he alleged that Newcastle was deliberately leaving the island of Minorca ill-defended so that the French would seize it, and Newcastle could use its loss to prove that Britain was not able to fight a war against France and sue for peace.

In December 1756, Pitt, who now sat for Okehampton, became Secretary of State for the Southern Department, and Leader of the House of Commons under the premiership of the Duke of Devonshire.

At a meeting in Albany in December 1755, he laid out his plans for 1756.

His book about the history of the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ) was the basis for many reprints, as well as for school books.

Together with William Cookworthy, she won a contract to manufacture it for the Royal Navy in 1756.

The ensuing Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ) was to have profound consequences for France and Britain.

The most successful adaptation was David Garrick's Catharine and Petruchio, which was introduced in 1756 and dominated the stage for almost two centuries, with Shakespeare's play not returning until 1844 in England and 1887 in the United States, although Garrick's version was still being performed as late as 1879, when Herbert Beerbohm Tree staged it.

Leopold Mozart ’ s Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule ( 1756 ), for example, provides an indication of the state of vibrato in string playing at the end of the baroque period.

Harrison was a representative for Surry County, Virginia, ( 1756 – 1758 ) and Charles City County ( 1766 – 1776 ) to the House of Burgesses.

The county is named for John Campbell, Fourth Earl of Loudoun and Governor of Virginia from 1756 – 59.

Examples of his history pictures are The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan, executed in 1736 – 1737 for St Bartholomew's Hospital ; Moses brought before Pharaoh's Daughter, painted for the Foundling Hospital ( 1747, formerly at the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now in the Foundling Museum ); Paul before Felix ( 1748 ) at Lincoln's Inn ; and his altarpiece for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol ( 1756 ).