In 1756, on the recommendation of Samuel Foote, she became a member of the Drury Lane company, where she was overshadowed by Mrs Pritchard and Kitty Clive.

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

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

As well, under the pseudonym of " Mary Singleton, Spinster ," she edited thirty-seven issues of her own weekly periodical, Old Maid ( 1755 – 1756 ).

In 1756 she married Rev.

Conceiving a strong attachment for Jean-Jacques Rousseau, she furnished for him in 1756 in the valley of Montmorency a cottage which she named the Hermitage, and in this retreat he found for a time the quiet and natural rural pleasures he praised so highly.

In Brunswick on 16 March 1756 she married Ernst August II Konstantin, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach.

Her daughter, who had studied under Garrick, and whose beauty created a sensation when she made her debut ( as Miss Pritchard ) in October 1756, did not live up to the expectations then raised.

He entered under the court sculptor Johann Wolfgang von der Auwera to Prince – Bishop of Würzburg around 1756 who died that year — Wagner then took his master's widow as his bride, she was named Maria Cordula Curé ( daughter of Claude Curé ).

She retired in 1756, but after an absence of five years, during which she married Bellecour ( Jean Colson ), she reappeared as Madame Bellecour, and continued her successes in soubrette parts in the plays of Molière and Jean-François Regnard.

Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, " Comtesse de la Motte " ( 22 July 1756 – 23 August 1791 ) was a notorious French adventuress and thief ; she was married to Nicholas de la Motte whose family's claim to nobility is dubious.

On 13 October 1783 she married James Billington ( 1756 – 1794 ), a double-bass player.

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.

Nevertheless, the play has been intermittently popular, revived in productions in various forms and adaptations by some of the leading theatre practitioners in Shakespearean performance history, beginning after a long interval with David Garrick in his adaptation called Florizel and Perdita ( first performed in 1754 and published in 1756.

After his opera Antigono was performed in Rome in February, 1756, Gluck was made a Knight of the Golden Spur by Pope Benedict XIV.

It was performed on 14 December 1756 with overwhelming success, in spite of the opposition of the presbytery, who summoned Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation.

First performed at the: en: Foire Saint-Laurent | Foire Saint-Laurent on 19 August, 1756, it was produced numerous times with music by different composers and became one of the most performed: en: opéra comique | comic operas in the latter half of the 18th century. Meanwhile he had done his best to repair his deficiencies of education, and in 1750 he published a Recueil de pièces fugitives, which included fables, songs and pastorals.

Not coincidentally, the 18th-century operas of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 – 1791 ), which require adroit bel canto skills if they are to be performed well, also experienced a post-war revival that shows no sign of abating, while the florid operas composed by Mozart's predecessor Handel have undergone a similar surge in popularity during recent decades.

France, which claimed this area as part of their colony of New France, viewed this as a threat, and the ensuing French and Indian War became part of the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ).

The Napoleonic Code was not the first legal code to be established in a European country with a civil legal system-it was preceded by the Codex Maximilianeus bavaricus civilis ( Bavaria, 1756 ), the Allgemeines Landrecht ( Prussia, 1794 ), and the West Galician Code ( Galicia, then part of Austria, 1797 ).

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.

Map of North America in 1750, before the French and Indian War, that is part of the greater world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 to 1763 ).

The public memory of Francis Marion has been shaped in large part by the first biography about him, " The Life of General Francis Marion " written by M. L. Weems ( also known as Parson Weems, 1756 – 1825 ) based on the memoirs of South Carolina officer Peter Horry.

Alford was first settled in 1756 as part of a purchase of land from the Shauanum Stockbridge Mahican tribe by a group led by Timothy Woodbridge.

The area around Richmond was settled as part of the town of Stockbridge in 1756.

Shelburne was first settled in 1756 as part of Deerfield, Massachusetts, known then as " Deerfield Northwest ".

Once part of Kingston, Sandown was incorporated as a separate town in 1756 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth.

Map of territorial claims by 1750 in North America, before the French and Indian War, that is part of the greater world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 to 1763 ).

Toten was a part of Akershus county until 1756, when it was reassigned to Oppland county.

Toten was a part of Akershus county until 1756, when it was reassigned to Oppland county.

He first saw action in June 1756 at the Siege of Fort St Philip, part of the Seven Years ' War.

A second part, more particularly relating to Danish literature, Monuments de la mythologie et de la poesie des Celtes, et particulierement des anciens Scandinaves, was issued in 1756, and was also translated into Danish.

He took an active part in the capture of Fort Oswego in 1756 and in 1757 at the Battle of Fort William Henry.

Slavery was part of the early economy of Middletown ; African slaves were brought to the town in 1661 from Barbados ; by 1756 Middletown had the third largest African slave population in the state of Connecticut — 218 slaves to 5, 446 whites.

Rodney had in 1755 and 1756, taken part in preventive cruises under Hawke and Edward Boscawen.

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.

A half pint ( current American measurement ; the larger British " Imperial " pint was not introduced until 1824 ) of rum mixed with one quart of water and issued in two servings, before noon and after the end of the working day, became part of the official regulations of the Royal Navy in 1756 and lasted for more than two centuries.

The earlier part of his life was spent in the pursuit of natural history, his published works in this department including Le Règne animal ( 1756 ) and Ornithologie ( 1760 ).

After a period back at court, 38-year-old Zakhar held the command of a Russian corps of approximately 20, 000 soldiers who took part in the Raid on Berlin which briefly saw Austro-Russian forces capture the Prussian capital in 1760, during the very bloody and extensive European War ( over 1 million deaths ), known as Seven Years ' War, ( 1756 – 1763 ).

From 1754 – 1756 Szentmartony took part in expeditions to the Amazon and the Rio Negro.

Lady Dorothy was also descended from William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, who served as Prime Minister from 1756 – 1757 in communion with Newcastle and Pitt the Elder.

Wieland's tastes had changed ; the writings of his early Swiss years — Der geprüfte Abraham ( The Trial of Abraham's Faith, 1753 ), Sympathien ( 1756 ), Empfindungen eines Christen ( 1757 ) — were still in the manner of his earlier writings, but with the tragedies, Lady Johanna Gray ( 1758 ), and Clementina von Porretta ( 1760 ) — the latter based on Samuel Richardson's Sir Charles Grandison — the epic fragment Cyrus ( 1759 ), and the " moral story in dialogues ," Araspes und Panthea ( 1760 ), Wieland, as Gotthold Lessing said, " forsook the ethereal spheres to wander again among the sons of men.

* Lady Mary Henrietta Juliana Osborne ( 1776-1862 ); married Thomas Pelham, 2nd Earl of Chichester ( 28 April 1756 – 4 July 1826 ) in 1801 and had issue.

His grandmother, Lady Dorothy Cavendish, was a member of a family which included two Prime Ministers, the 4th Duke of Devonshire ( 1756 – 1757 ) and the 3rd Duke of Portland ( 1783 and 1807 – 1809 ), related by marriage to President John F. Kennedy.

He was married to Lady Susannah Selina Sophia Metcalfe ( 1756 – 1815 ) in Calcutta in 1782, who was the daughter of a merchant, John Debonnaire, trading at Fort St. George, who subsequently settled at the Cape of Good Hope.

# Lady Mary Isabella Somerset ( 1 August 1756 – 2 September 1831 ), married Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland on 26 December 1775 and had issue

Ponsonby was the second surviving son of the Honourable John Ponsonby, speaker of the Irish House of Commons ( 1756 – 71 ), and his wife, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish ( 1723 – 1796 ), daughter of William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire.

* 3 Lady Elizabeth, Sharp Stewart 2-4-0 Wks No 1756, delivered in July 1866.

* Henry Raeburn ( 1756 – 1823 ) Sir John and Lady Clerk of Penicuik 1791

* Lady Margaret Bentinck ( b. 26 July 1739 ; d. 28 April 1756 )

The fortified church of St. Roch ( Rocco ) was erected in 1763, and the church of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows ( the New Church ) dates back to 1756.

Lady Salisbury died in 1756.