In the mid-Mersey area communications were being improved by the development of inland waterways, including the Sankey Canal from St Helens to Warrington which was completed in 1757, the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, the act for which achieved Royal Assent in 1720, and the Bridgewater Canal from Manchester to Runcorn, which opened throughout its length in 1776.

:" WHEREAS it is necessary, in this time of danger, that the militia of this colony should be well regulated and disciplined ... And be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every person so as aforesaid inlisted ( except free mulattoes, negroes, and Indians ) shall be armed in the manner following, that is to say: Every soldier shall he furnished with a firelock well fixed, a bayonet fitted to the same, a double cartouch-box, and three charges of powder, and constantly appear with the same at the time and place appointed for muster and exercise, and shall also keep at his place of abode one pound of powder and four pounds of ball, and bring the same with him into the field when he shall be required ... And for the better training and exercising the militia, and rendering them more serviceable, Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That every captain shall, once in three months, and oftner if thereto required by the lieutenant or chief commanding officer in the county, muster, train, and exercise his company, and the lieutenant or other chief commanding officer in the county shall cause a general muster and exercise of all the companies within his county, to be made in the months of March or April, and September or October, yearly ; and if any soldier shall, at any general or private muster, refuse to perform the command of his officer, or behave himself refractorily or mutinously, or misbehave himself at the courts martial to be held in pursuance of this act, as is herein after directed, it shall and may be lawful to and for the chief commanding officer, then present, to cause such offender to be tied neck and heels, for any time not exceeding five minutes, or inflict such corporal punishment as he shall think fit, not exceeding twenty lashes ..." — An Act for the better regulating and disciplining the Militia, April 1757

* Kinkaku-ji ( 1757 – 8 ), the fourth act ( now performed alone ) of a kabuki play by Nakamura Akei, Gion Sairei Shinkōki (" The Gion Festival of Faith "), which describes the revolt of Matsunaga Daizen against the Ashikaga family.

The Anglo-French Wars of the 17th and 18th centuries saw more descriptive works, usually couched in patriotic terms, but some, like ‘ Captain Death ’ ( 1757 ) dealt with loss and defeat.

The Battle of Kolín on 18 June 1757 saw 44, 000 Austrians under Count von Daun defeat 32, 000 Prussians under Frederick the Great during the Seven Years ' War.

After the victory at Kolín, having pushed the Prussians out of Bohemia in the summer of 1757, and the cleverly waged campaign in the autumn that saw Lieutenant-General the Duke of Bevern's Prussians defeated at the Battle of Breslau ( 22 November 1757 ), Queen Maria Theresa of Austria believed her fortunes were taking a turn for the better.

The 2nd Battalion was sent to Nova Scotia in 1757, and saw service in the Seven Years ' War, capturing Louisburg in 1758, Guadeloupe in 1762 and Havana in 1763, returning home in 1764.

George Clinton saw service in the Royal Navy, attaining the highest of naval ranks as Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean in 1737, Admiral in 1747 and Admiral of the Fleet in 1757.

The Ottomans, which saw Imereti as the sphere of their influence, sent in an army, but Solomon succeeded in mobilizing his nobles around him and defeated the invaders at the Battle of Khresili in 1757.

Jean-Jacques declared his love to Sophie on 24 May 1757, and for a few months they saw a great deal of each other.

In the eighteenth century, the Marshal de Saxe leaned heavily on him when he composed his Reveries upon the Art of War ( 1757 ), and Algarotti — though without much basis — saw in Machiavelli the master who has taught Frederick the Great the tactics by which he astounded Europe.

On December 24, 1757, of land was deeded to Issac Meier and wife Catherine, who built their house at the Hergelrode site on South College Street.

Washington used his wife's great wealth to buy land and slaves ; he more than tripled the size of Mount Vernon ( in 1757, in 1787 ).

* Finland: In the general reparcelling out of land, begun in 1757 when Finland was a part of Sweden, the medieval model of all fields consisting of numerous strips, each belonging to a farm, was replaced by a model of fields and forest areas each belonging to a single farm.

* Sweden: In 1757, the general reparcelling out of land began.

In 1757 Hawke participated in a failed attempt to land a force on the French coast to Raid on Rochefort | occupy Rochefort

Hawke blockaded Rochefort in 1757 and towards the end of the year he was selected to command a naval escort that would land a large force on the coast of France.

* Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth ( 1757 – 1844 ; Speaker 1789, Prime Minister 1801, donated land for and endowed Earley St Peters Church, owned Erleigh Court )

Irish regiments participated in most of the major land battles fought by the French between 1690 and 1789, particularly Steenkirk ( 1692 ), Neerwinden ( 1693 ), Marsaglia ( 1693 ), Blenheim ( 1704 ), Malplaquet ( 1709 ), Fontenoy ( 1745 ), Battle of Lauffeld ( 1747 ); and Rossbach ( 1757 ).

In February 1757 he surrendered to Pakubuwana III and was given 4000 households, all taken from Pakubuwana III ’ s own lungguh, and a parcel of land near Solo, the present day Mangkunegaran Palace, and the title of “ Pangeran Arya Adipati Mangkunegara ”.

* William Bevil Thomas ( 1757 – 1825 ), Newfoundland merchant and land developer

The first birth in the area was outside the fishing season, around 1757, and the following year, the municipal council conceded the first land tenure in the Cabanas de Armação.

In 1757, the land belonging to Ca Mau province ( in Khmer language " the black land ") was ceded by the Chan Lap king to the Nguyen Lord of Vietnam with an early settlement of Khmer, Chinese and Vietnamese.

Through his learning and his manner of discussion, he co-operated with S. J. Baumgarten of Halle ( 1706 – 1757 ) in disengaging the current dogmatic theology from Lutheran Orthodoxy, along with any Lutheran scholastic or mystical influences, and thus paved a way for a Rationalist revolution in theology.

In the Battle of Leuthen or Lissa, fought on 5 December 1757, Frederick the Great's Prussian army used maneuver and terrain to decisively defeat a much bigger Austrian army under Prince Charles of Lorraine, thus ensuring Prussian control of Silesia during the Seven Years ' War.

Also referred to as " disruption " or being " drawn and quartered ," it could be brought about by chaining four horses to the condemned's arms and legs, thus making them pull him apart, as was the case with the executions of François Ravaillac in 1610 and Robert-François Damiens in 1757.

Two of his works, the first edition of the ( 1753 ) for plants and the tenth edition of the Systema Naturæ ( 1758 ) are accepted among the starting points of nomenclature ; most of his names for species and genera were published at very early dates and thus take priority over those of others ( in zoology there is one exception, which is a monograph on Swedish spiders, published by Carl Clerck in 1757, the names established therein take priority over the Linnean names ).

The late calligraphic style of the Ottomans was created by Mustafa Râkim ( 1757 – 1826 ) as an extension and reform of Osman's style, placing greater emphasis on technical perfection, which broadened the calligraphic art to encompass the sülüs script as well as the neish script.

The first design, commissioned in 1757, with construction begun with the King's ceremonial placing of the cornerstone, April 3, 1763, was halted in 1764 ; that first design, by Pierre Contant d ' Ivry, was based on Jules Hardouin Mansart Late Baroque church of Les Invalides, with a dome surmounting a Latin cross.

He was the son of sultan Ahmed III ( 1703 – 30 ) and succeeded his brother Mustafa III ( 1757 – 74 ) on January 21, 1774.

He lived on the Left Bank near Saint-Sulpice until 1757, when Louis XV granted him a studio and living quarters in the Louvre.

During the sixth and final colonial war, the French and Indian War, the military conflicts in Nova Scotia included: Battle of Fort Beauséjour ; Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ); the Battle of Petitcodiac ; the Raid on Lunenburg ( 1756 ); the Louisbourg Expedition ( 1757 ); Battle of Bloody Creek ( 1757 ); Siege of Louisbourg ( 1758 ), Petitcodiac River Campaign, Gulf of St. Lawrence Campaign ( 1758 ), St. John River Campaign, and Battle of Restigouche.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

The Wide Streets Commission was established in 1757 at the request of Dublin Corporation to govern architectural standards on the layout of streets, bridges and buildings.

English deism, however, was already in decline before Hume's works on religion ( 1757, 1779 ) were published.

Another common representation of the Dhrystone benchmark is the DMIPS ( Dhrystone MIPS ) obtained when the Dhrystone score is divided by 1757 ( the number of Dhrystones per second obtained on the VAX 11 / 780, nominally a 1 MIPS machine ).

A mezzotint of Martha Washington, based on a 1757 portrait by John Wollaston ( painter ) | Wollaston

However, armed forces under Robert Clive later recaptured Calcutta and then pressed on to capture the French settlement of Chandannagar in 1757.

This led to the Battle of Plassey on June 23, 1757, in which the Bengal Army of the East India Company, led by Robert Clive, defeated the French-supported Nawab's forces.

During the Seven Years ' War the Battle of Hastenbeck was fought on July 26, 1757, near the city.

In 1757 he was elected to represent Charles County in the lower house of the Maryland General Assembly, where he served over the next twelve years, sitting on many important committees.

A 1757 miniature ( illuminated manuscript ) | miniature of Emir Ahmad Shah Durrani, in which the Koh-i-Noor diamond is seen hanging on the front of his Crown ( headgear ) | crown, above his forehead.

Richard married first on December 5, 1757, Anne Aylett ( 1738 – 1768 ), daughter of William Aylett and Elizabeth Eskridge ( 1719 ).

In April 1757 Pitt was dismissed from office on account of his opposition to the continental policy and the circumstances surrounding the court-martial and execution of Admiral John Byng.

He conspired with a number of figures to persuade the Hanoverians to revoke the Convention and re-enter the war on Britain's side, which they did in late 1757.

Pitt's particular genius was to finance an army on the continent to drain French men and resources so that Britain might concentrate on what he held to be the vital spheres: Canada and the West Indies ; whilst Clive successfully defeated Siraj Ud Daulah, ( the last independent Nawab of Bengal ) at Plassey ( 1757 ), securing India.

The Continental campaign was carried on by Cumberland, defeated at Hastenbeck and forced to surrender at Convention of Klosterzeven ( 1757 ) and thereafter by Ferdinand of Brunswick, later victor at Minden ; Britain's Continental campaign had two major strands, firstly subsidising allies, particularly Frederick the Great, and second, financing an army to divert French resources from the colonial war and to also defend Hanover ( which was the territory of the Kings of England at this time )

Year 1757 ( MDCCLVII ) was a common year starting on Saturday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Other than the campaigns to expel the Acadians ( ranging around the Bay of Fundy, on the Petitcodiac and St. John rivers, and Île Saint-Jean ), the only clashes of any size were at Petitcodiac in 1755 and at Bloody Creek near Annapolis Royal in 1757.