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Millennium:	2nd millennium
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Year 1751 (MDCCLI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar. In Britain and its colonies, 1751 only had 282 days due to the Calendar Act of 1750.

Events[edit]

March 25
- For the last time, New Year's Day is legally on March 25 in England and Wales.
- Upon his death, Frederick I of Sweden is succeeded as king by Adolf Frederick.
April 20 – The future King George III of the United Kingdom succeeds his father as heir-apparent to the British throne (later that year, he's named Prince of Wales). His mother Augusta of Saxe-Gotha becomes Dowager Princess of Wales.
May 11 – The Pennsylvania legislature grants a charter to Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond for the establishment in Philadelphia of the first hospital in the Colonies.

July 31 – Fire destroys 1,000 houses in Stockholm.
August 13 – The Academy and College of Philadelphia, predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, opens its doors, with Benjamin Franklin as president.
September 13 – Kalvária Banská Štiavnica in the Kingdom of Hungary is completed.
October 27 – The Hōreki period begins in Japan.
December 3 – Battle of Arnee in India (Second Carnatic War): A British East India Company-led force under Robert Clive defeats and routs a much larger Franco-Indian army under the command of Raza Sahib at Arni.

Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow.
University of Glasgow School of Medicine is founded.
The Encyclopédie is first published.
Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus publishes his Philosophia Botanica, the first textbook of descriptive systematic botanical taxonomy and the first appearance of his binomial nomenclature.
Maria Theresa thaler minted; it becomes an international currency.^[1]
1751–1775 – 13% of appointees to audiencias in the Spanish Empire are Creoles.

January 12 – Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
February 20 – Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
March 16 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
May 24 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, King of Sardinia (d. 1819)
June 4 – John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1838)
June 17 – Joshua Humphreys, American naval architect (d. 1838)
July 11 – Caroline Matilda of Wales (d. 1775)
July 30 – Mozart's sister Maria Anna Mozart Nickname Nannerl was born at midnight. She is a pianist,singer,composer, and violinist... Her brother is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
September 1 – Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor, and singer. (d. 1812)
October 30 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish dramatist and politician (d. 1816)
date unknown – Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (d. 1806)

^ Semple, Clare (2006). A Silver Legend: the story of the Maria Theresa Thaler. Manchester: Barzan Publishing. ISBN 0-9549701-0-1.

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