After studying at Trinity College, he joined the 32nd regiment of foot as an ensign in 1746, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1755, and captain in 1756.

In 1756 a part of the regiment, then quartered at Madras, was sent forward to join Robert Clive in his operations against Calcutta which had recently been captured by captured by the forces of the Nawab of Bengal, which had been followed by the Black Hole of Calcutta.

As Lord Lieutenant of Essex from May 1756, Rochford was closely involved in forming the Essex regiment of militia, becoming its Colonel in November 1759.

The regiment was raised again in 1756 for service in the Seven Years ' War and again disbanded in 1763.

He was appointed a major of the 33rd Regiment of Foot, on 20 December 1756, transferred to the 72nd Regiment of Foot on 9 May 1758, and on 14 December 1761, lieutenant-colonel of the 17th Regiment of Foot, before in May 1762, transferring to the 50th Regiment of Foot, with which regiment he served in Germany during the Seven Years War.

However, in 1741 the regiment became known as the 3rd Regiment of Horse, and in 1756 became the 3rd Horse.

By 1756 he was commissioned a captain in a Pennsylvania regiment, and accompanied Lt. Col. John Armstrong's expedition on the raid of the Indian village of Kittanning in September 1756.

In 1756, during the Seven Years War, the regiment was part of the garrison on Minorca and surrendered to the French on June 28.

At the same time, there were 1756 non-Swiss men and 1655 non-Swiss women who immigrated from another country to Switzerland.

Darwin settled in 1756 as a physician at Nottingham, but met with little success and so moved the following year to Lichfield to try to establish a practice there.

In 1717 there were 547 black people in the Territory ( all of whom were assumed to be slaves ); by 1724, there were 1, 430 ; and 1756, there were 6, 121.

From 1756 to 1763 there was also an Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The only really important battle at Fort Ashby occurred in 1756 when Lieutenant Robert Rutherford and his company of rangers was defeated there by a band of French and Native Americans.

By the late 18th century there were increasing efforts to take advantage of the rifle for military purposes, with specialist rifle units such as the King's Royal Rifle Corps of 1756 and Rifle Brigade ( Prince Consort's Own ) of 1800.

The custom of standing for the " Hallelujah " chorus originates from a belief that, at the London premiere, King George II did so, but there is no convincing evidence that the king was present, or that he attended any subsequent performance of Messiah ; the first reference to the practice of standing appears in a letter dated 1756.

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.

In 1750, his account of an earthquake at Downing was inserted in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, where there also appeared in 1756 a paper on several coralloid bodies he had collected at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire.

Bowdoin was elected to the provincial assembly in 1753 and served there until named to the governor's council in 1756.

A native of Axim, Anton Wilhelm Amo ( 1703 – 1756 ), qualifies as the first Western black philosopher, that is, specifically, the first black African to receive a philosophical education in Europe and to publish philosophical works there.

In 1756 the Seven Year War with France began and there was a concern about invasion.

During the aftermath of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, it was determined that there was superficial damage and no fear of collapse, but there were a number of repairs completed between 1755 and 1756.

Bjelovar is not an ancient town ; it was first mentioned in 1413 and only gained importance when a new fort was built there in 1756, at the command of the Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa.

In Uppsala he was one of the students of Linnaeus, but apparently also studied with the orientalist Carl Aurivillius, whose contacts with the Göttingen orientalist Johann David Michaelis are probably the reason why Forsskål travelled to the University of Göttingen in 1753 ; he studied Oriental languages and Philosophy and completed a doctorate there with a dissertation entitled Dubia de principiis philosophiae recentioris ( 1756 ).

During the period 1756 – 1810 – when there were constant palace coups and a large number of assassination conspiracies – the guards officers and the palace guard often played a decisive role.

On August 29, 1756, the small Saxon army fled before the Prussians, who had invaded without declaring war, to the levels between Königstein Fortress and Sonnenstein Castle and capitulated there on October 16, two days after Sonnenstein surrendered.

Frederick the Great thought so highly of the book that he asked the scholar Christian Garve to do a new translation of it, even though there had been already two German translations since 1756.

We do not know when the Hambledon Club was founded and it seems likely that some kind of parish organisation was operating in 1756, although there may well have been a patron involved.

It was favorably mentioned by Reid, Stewart and others, was frequently referred to by the Leibnitzians, and was translated into German by Johann Christian Eschenbach the Elder in 1756, Berkeley's Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge and Theory of Vision preceded it by three and four years respectively, but there is no evidence that they were known to Collier before the publication of his book.

After the deaths of Richmond and Wales in 1750 and 1751 respectively, there was a pronounced slump in the number of major matches played that was compounded by the impact of the Seven Years War from 1756 to 1763, with no matches at all in 1760.

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

Starting in 1756, seven regiments of Light Dragoons were raised.

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.

This led to the Diplomatic Revolution of 1756, in which the alliances seen during the previous war were mostly inverted.

When the walls were first erected in 1756, they were made of squared wooden timbers, with earth filling the gap.

In 1756 the Cherokee were allies of the British in the French and Indian War.

The fortifications, which became more elaborate as the threat of invasion grew, were begun in 1756 as a complex across the neck of the peninsula formed by the bend in the River Medway, and included Fort Amherst.

When the defenses were finished in 1756, the city was considered impregnable.

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 ).

Adaptations, titled The Sheep-Shearing and Florizal and Perdita, were acted at Covent Garden in 1754 and at Drury Lane in 1756.

There were 500 people in the town in 1756.

In 1756, residents petitioned for organization of a separate parish, but were denied.

The native Indian population was quickly driven north into the Appalachian Mountains, although conflicts between natives and settlers were recorded as late as 1756.

Later, they would go down to the Bay of Naples, and after their discovery in 1756, Pompeii and Herculaneum were popular too.

When Alivardi Khan died in April 1756 the British traders and small garrison at Kasimbazar were left vulnerable.

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.

From 1748 to 1756, 2, 300 Azoreans were sent to the region by the King of Portugal to protect Southern Brazil from neighboring invaders.

Amongst his theological works were Dissertationes in Acta Apostolorum ( 1756 – 1761 ); Antiquitales symbolicae ( 1772 ); and after his death appeared Observationes in Matthaeum ex Graecis inscriptionibus ( 1779 ).