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* 1757King Charles X of France ( d. 1836 )
* November 6 – King Charles X of France ( b. 1757 )
* 1757 BCE: Zimrilim, the King of Mari, dies.
Charles X ( Charles Philippe ; 9 October 1757 – 6 November 1836 ) was known for most of his life as the Comte d ' Artois before he reigned as King of France and of Navarre from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830.
In 1757 he was appointed Serjeant Painter to the King.
Through a recommendation of the 4th Earl of Bute in 1757 he was appointed architectural tutor to the Prince of Wales, later George III, and in 1766 also, along with Robert Adam, Architect to the King, ( this being an unofficial title, rather than an actual salaried post with the Office of Works ).
Princess Mary ( later Queen Mary II of England and Scotland ) ( 1662 – 1694 ), eldest daughter of King James II & VII, and Princess Sophia Dorothea ( 1687 – 1757 ), only daughter of King George I, were eligible for this honour but did not receive it.
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.
* Samuel Slack, notable bass singer born 1757 of local fame, reputedly sang before King George III
He was invited to form a government by the King in 1757, but was unsuccessful ( and is normally not considered to have held the post of Prime Minister ).
In 1740, the Mon revolted and briefly regained their independence, but Burmese King Alaungpaya sacked and completely destroyed the city ( along with Mon independence ) in 1757.
Robert-François Damiens ( 9 January 1715 – 28 March 1757 ) was a French domestic servant whose attempted assassination of King Louis XV of France in 1757 culminated in his notorious and controversial public execution.
* Robert Lester, Proceedings of an Embassy to the King of Ava, Pegu, & C. in 1757 SOAS
Cruger studied at King ’ s College ( now Columbia University ) in New York City, but before being graduated he moved to Bristol, England in 1757 where he was placed in a family mercantile house.
* Charles Philippe of France, Count of Artois ( 1757 – 1836 ) was the youngest brother of Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, and known as Monsieur at the beginning of the reign of Louis XVIII, later King of France as Charles X from 1824 to 1830.
Rigshospitalet was founded in 30 March 1757 under the name " Kongelig Frederiks Hospital ", named after King Frederick V. It was back then located in Bredgade in central Copenhagen.
But Burmese King Alaungpaya captured the city in May 1757.

1757 and George
Captain George Vancouver ( 22 June 1757 – 10 May 1798 ) was an English officer of the British Royal Navy, best known for his 1791-95 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of contemporary Alaska, British Columbia, Washington and Oregon.
Johann Georg Rapp ( George Rapp ) 1757 – 1847.
Johann Georg Rapp ( November 1, 1757 – August 7, 1847 ), also known as George Rapp, was the founder of the religious sect called Harmonists, Harmonites, Rappites, or the Harmony Society.
* 1757George Vancouver, English navy officer and explorer ( d. 1798 )
In 1757, during the French and Indian War, Sabbath Day Point was used as an encampment and staging area for the French Army and nearly two thousand Ottawa Indians in an expedition to capture the British Fort William Henry at the southern end of Lake George.
Well into the nineteenth century, English was spoken by few in Wales, and prior to the early twentieth century there are only three major Welsh-born writers who wrote in the English language: George Herbert ( 1593 – 1633 ) from Montgomeryshire, Henry Vaughan ( 1622 – 1695 ) from Brecknockshire, and John Dyer ( 1699 – 1757 ) from Carmarthenshire.
While historically Welsh writing in English might be said to begin with the fifteenth-century bard Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal, well into the nineteenth century English was spoken by few in Wales, and prior to the early twentieth century there are only three major Welsh-born writers who wrote in the English language: George Herbert ( 1593 – 1633 ) from Montgomeryshire, Henry Vaughan from Brecknockshire ( 1622 – 1695 ), and John Dyer from Carmarthenshire ( 1699 – 1757 ).
In 1757, George began the first of two major additions and improvements to the home.
Pierre Jean George Cabanis ( 5 June 1757 – 5 May 1808 ) was a French physiologist and materialist philosopher.
* George Capell-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex ( 1757 – 1839 )
In August 1757, they crossed Lake George to take Fort William Henry.
On August 9, 1757, Montcalm, with an army of 7, 000 men consisting of French soldiers, Canadian militia, and Indians from various tribes, took Fort William Henry, situated at the southern point of Lake George.
The hymn's fourth verse (" His dying crimson ...") is commonly omitted in printed versions, a practice that began with George Whitefield in 1757.
He was intensely disliked by George II, who dismissed both him and Pitt from office in April 1757.
In the spring of 1757 command of the fort was turned over to George Monro, with a garrison principally drawn from the 35th Foot and the 60th ( Royal American ) Foot.
After settling in Plymouth, James inherited his father's position as sheriff and Mercy bore him five sons, James ( 1757 – 1821 ), Winslow ( 1759 – 1791 ), Charles ( 1762 – 1784 ), Henry ( 1764 – 1828 ), and George ( 1766 – 1800 ).
In 1757, George II donated the Palace library to the British Museum ; this gift was the first part of what later became the Royal Collection.
As a poet he produced clever imitations of John Gay and Thomas Gray, and with the assistance of George, 1st Lord Lyttelton, Lord Chesterfield and Horace Walpole, conducted The World ( 1753 – 1757 ), a weekly periodical on the model of the Rambler.
Berlin: George Ludewig Winter, 1757.
In 1757 a second battalion ( 2nd / 33rd ) had been raised and in 1758 this battalion became an independent regiment, the 72nd Regiment of Foot: Richmond was appointed Colonel of the new regiment and his younger brother George Lennox took command of the 33rd Regiment ( 1st / 33rd ).
* George Augustus North, 3rd Earl of Guilford ( 1757 – 1802 )

1757 and II
* 1757 – Seven Years ' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
* 1757: Christian II Frederick ( 1757 – 1791 ) ( son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach )
* 1748 – 1757: Abdallah II ( 6 règne )
Important early literature on the poet includes Édouard Bourciez, La Littérature polie et les mœurs de cour sous Henri II ( Paris, 1886 ); Jacques Pernetti, Recherches pour servir de l ' histoire de Lyon ( 2 vols., Lyon, 1757 ), and especially F. Brunetière, " Un Précurseur de la Pléiade, Maurice Scève ," in his Etudes critiques, vol.
He subsequently defeated a smaller Prussian army in 1757 at the Battle of Breslau before being completely routed by Frederick II of Prussia at the Battle of Leuthen, which is considered one of Frederick's most brilliant victories.
It was built by Nawab Ali Mohammad Khan Khakwani, in 1757 when he was the governor of Multan in the time of Alamgir II.
In 1757 the Prussian king, Fredrick II, was still active in Saxony.
Frederick II of Prussia led the cavalry himself at the battles of Hohenfriedberg in 1745 and Leuthen in 1757, but had it not been for the supporting infantry trained by Leopold he would never have had the opportunity to do so.
The Royal manuscripts were donated by George II in 1757.
The 1757 Battle of Kolin was fought during the Seven Years ' War, and in 1944 a refinery in Kolin was bombed during the Oil Campaign of World War II.
He then marched towards Delhi, in October 1757, the Mughal Emperor Alamgir II with courtiers such as Shah Waliullah, nobles such as Najib-ul-Daula, and the imperial family went to meet Ahmad Shah Durrani, whose forces then engaged the Marathas in combat and threatened to overthrow and execute the regime of Imad-ul-Mulk.
In the year 1756, Alamgir II sympathized with the cause of his loyal Nawabs of Kurnool, Cuddapah and Savanur, when their assigned territories were ravaged and plundered until 1757 by the Maratha chieftain Balaji Rao.
The area was mapped first in Persian, by the Surveyor General as early as 1764 following soon after proprietary rights were confiscated from the Mughal Emperor Alamgir II by the British East India Company in 1757.
Frederick Louis was succeeded as duke by his eldest son, Frederick William II ( 1687 – 1749 ) ( whose only son, Duke Frederick William III, died in the Battle of Prague in 1757 ), and eventually by his younger sons, Charles Louis ( 1690 – 1774 ), and Peter August ( 1697 – 1775 ).

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