Major Events
- Jan 16 Britain & Prussia sign Treaty of Westminster to respect each other's European territories
- Mar 17 St. Patrick's Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern
- Apr 14 Governor Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia indians
- May 1 France and Austria sign alliance
- May 7 Burmese King Alaungphaya sends his Golden Letter on rolled gold to King George II of Great Britain detailing trade proposals [1]
- May 17 Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
- May 18 Great Britain declares war on France at the start of the Seven Years' War
- Jun 4 Quakers leave assembly of Pennsylvania
- Jun 20 Black Hole of Calcutta: 146 British soldiers, Anglo-Indian soldiers and Indian civilians are imprisoned in a small dungeon in Calcutta, India where most die from suffocation and heat exhaustion
- Jun 20 Siraj ud-Daulah Nawab of Bengal takes Calcutta from the British
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Did You Know?
Black Hole of Calcutta: 146 British soldiers, Anglo-Indian soldiers and Indian civilians are imprisoned in a small dungeon in Calcutta, India where most die from suffocation and heat exhaustion
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Fun Fact About 1756
Giacomo Casanova escapes from "The Leads" prison in Venice by climbing onto the roof
Who Died in 1756
- Feb 25 Eliza Haywood, English actress and novelist (Love in Excess; or, The Fatal Enquiry), dies at 63
- Mar 13 Johann Melchior Conradi, German composer, dies at 81
- Mar 23 Georg Gottfried Wagner, German composer, dies at 57
- Apr 10 Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer, and Maestro di Cappella (San Petronio, 1696-1756), dies at 94
- Apr 15 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, German composer, dies at 29
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Famous Weddings in 1756
- May 20 Prime Minister of Great Britain Frederick North (24) weds heiress Anne Speke
- Aug 14 Frontiersman Daniel Boone (21) weds Rebecca Bryan (17) in Yadkin River, North Carolina
Frederick the Great
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