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.

Several more were created by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in his star catalogue, published in 1756.

It was named by French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1756.

He was highly demanding and bad-tempered, unable to maintain longstanding partnerships with his librettists, with the exception of Louis de Cahusac, who collaborated with him on several operas, including Les fêtes de l ' Hymen et de l ' Amour ( 1747 ), Zaïs ( 1748 ), Naïs ( 1749 ), Zoroastre ( 1749 ; revised 1756 ), La naissance d ' Osiris ( 1754 ), and Anacréon ( the first of Rameau's operas by that name, 1754 ).

In 1756 King Louis XV sent him to New France to lead its defence against the British in the Seven Years ' War.

Pierre Louis Prieur ( Prieur de la Marne ) ( 1 August 1756 – 31 May 1827 ) was a French lawyer elected to the Estates-General of 1789.

In 1755, after the death of Count Friesen, who was a nephew of Marshal Saxe and an officer in the French army, Grimm secured a sinecure worth 2000 livres a year as secretaire des commandements to the Louis Philippe, duc d ' Orléans, a lover of theatre ; in this capacity he accompanied Marshal d ' Estrées on the Westphalia campaign of 1756 – 57.

Circinus was introduced in 1756 by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille with the French name le Compas, depicting a pair of dividing compasses.

His nephew, Louis Joseph Watteau, son of Antoine's brother Noël Joseph Watteau ( 1689 – 1756 ), and grand nephew, François-Louis-Joseph Watteau, son of Louis, followed Antoine into painting.

The diplomatic revolution of 1756, sealed in 1770 with the personal union ( the diplomatic term for marriage ) of Louis, the Dauphin of Viennois, and the Austrian Archduchess Marie Antoinette, was considered both a political and matrimonial mésalliance in the eyes of many Frenchmen.

* Louis VI, Prince of Condé ( 1756 – 1830 ).

The Rueil barracks of the Swiss Guard were constructed in 1756 under Louis XV by the architect Axel Guillaumot, and have been classified Monument historique since 1973.

Louis, one of the Calas's sons, converted to Catholicism in 1756.

His relationship with Louis XV deteriorated so, that when the Seven Years ' War broke out in 1756, Conti was refused the command of the army of the Rhine.

1818-1830: Louis IV Henri, Duke of Enghien ( 1756 – 1830 )

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

* Louis Henri, Prince of Condé ( 1756 – 1830 )

1818-1830: Louis IV Henri, Duke of Enghien ( 1756 – 1830 )

* Louis V Henry ( 1756 – 1830 )

On 15 April 1820 in Stuttgart, he married another first cousin Duchess Pauline Therese of Württemberg ( 1800 – 1873 ), daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg ( 1756 – 1817 ) and Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg ( 1780 – 1857 ).

In 1756 d ' Éon joined the secret network of spies called Le Secret du Roi which worked for King Louis XV personally, without the knowledge of the government, and sometimes against official policies and treaties.

* Adrien Paul Louis ( 17 September 1756 – 7 September 1757 ).

His four volumes, Architecture française ( 1752 – 1756 ), brought him to official notice ; he was inducted into the Académie d ' Architecture in 1755 and appointed architect to Louis XV.

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

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.

In 1756 the Vincennes porcelain factory shifted to new premises at Sèvres, west of Paris, until 1759, when, with the enterprise threatening to go bankrupt, the king bought it outright, initiating the career of world-famous Sèvres porcelain, which was a direct outgrowth of Vincennes.

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 ).