1756

	1756 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
	Countries: Canada – Great Britain –
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1720s 1730s 1740s – 1750s – 1760s 1770s 1780s
Years:	1753 1754 1755 – 1756 – 1757 1758 1759

Year 1756 (MDCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

[edit] Events of 1756

January 27 – Famous composer and child prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born.
July 31 – Tamil king Dheeran chinnmalaiis a freedom fighter against britishers, born on this date.
March 17 – St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
April 12 – Seven Years' War: The French invade Minorca, then under British control.
May 15 – Seven Years' War: The Seven Years' War formally begins when Great Britain declares war on France.
May 20 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Minorca: The British fleet under John Byng is defeated by the French under Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière.
May 28 – Seven Years' War: The British garrison in Minorca surrenders to the French.
June 25 – The Marine Society is founded in London (the world's oldest seafarers' charity).

July 30 – Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.
August 14 – Seven Years' War- French and Indian War: Fort Oswego falls to the French.
August 29 – Frederick II of Prussia invades Saxony, beginning the war on the continent.
October 1 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Lobositz: Frederick defeats an Austrian army under Marshal Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne.
December – Seven Years' War – French and Indian War: Militias of the Royal Colony of North Carolina build a fort on the province's western frontier to protect it against natives allied with the French. The fort is named Fort Dobbs in honor of North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs, who persuaded the North Carolina legislature to fund the construction a year earlier.

Frederick II of Prussia forces his country's peasants to grow the unpopular and obscure potato.
First chocolate-candy factory begins operations in Germany.
Leopold Mozart publishes his book on his method for learning to play the violin.

See also Category: 1756 births.

See also Category: 1756 deaths.