1756

Years:
1753 1754 1755 - 1756 - 1757 1758 1759
Decades:
1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s
Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
1756 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths

1756 was a Leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

Events

March 17 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
April 12 - The French invade Minorca, then under British control.
May 17 - The Seven Years' War formally begins when England declares war on France.
May 20 - Battle of Minorca. The English fleet under John Byng is defeated by the French under Augustin de la Gallisonnière.
May 28 - The British garrison in Minorca surrenders to the French.
August 29 - Frederick the Great invades Saxony, beginning the war on the continent.
October 1 - Battle of Lobositz. Frederick defeats an Austrian army under Marshal Maximilian von Browne.
Frederick II of Prussia forces his country's peasants to grow the unpopular and obscure Potato

February 25 - Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)
April 10 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (b. 1661)
April 18 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677)
July 24 - George Vertue, English engraver and antiquary (b. 1684)
December 8 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English statesman and diplomat
Bernard Accama, Dutch painter (b. 1697)