1757

	1757 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:	1754 1755 1756 – 1757 – 1758 1759 1760

[edit] Events of 1757

January 2 – Britain captures Calcutta (part of the fighting in the Seven Years War).
January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Louis XV of France.
March 14 – Seven Years' War: On-board the HMS Monarch, Royal Navy Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for breach of the Articles of War.
May 6 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Prague: Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.
June 18 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Kolin: Frederick is defeated by an Austrian army under Marshal Daun, forcing him to evacuate Bohemia.
June 23 – Battle of Plassey: 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.

July 26 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Hastenbeck: An Anglo-Hanoverian army under the Duke of Cumberland is defeated by the French under Louis d'Estrées and forced out of Hanover.
July 30 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: A Prussian army under Hans von Lehwald is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin.
August 3 – August 9 – French and Indian War: A French army under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm forces the English to surrender Fort William Henry. The French army's Indian allies slaughter the survivors for unclear reasons.
October 16 – Seven Years' War: Hungarian raiders plunder Berlin.
October 30 – Osman III dies and is succeeded as Ottoman Sultan by Mustafa III.
November 5 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Rossbach: Frederick defeats the French-Imperial army under the Duc de Soubise and Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, forcing the French to withdraw from Saxony.
November 22 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Breslau: An Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine defeats the Prussian army of Wilhelm of Brunswick-Bevern and forces the Austrians behind the Oder.
December 6 – Seven Years' War – Battle of Leuthen: Frederick defeats Prince Charles's Austrian army in what is generally considered the Prussian king's greatest tactical victory.

See also Category: 1757 births.

January 9 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
January 19 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1664)
March 1 – Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
March 8 – Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
March 12 – Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1696)
March 14 – John Byng, British admiral (executed) (b. 1704)
March 27 – Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
May 6 – Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
May 6 – Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683)
May 6 – Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
July 23 – Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
August 28 – David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
October 17 – René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
October 25 – Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (b. 1672)
October 30 – Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1699)
November 12 – Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
December 11 – Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)

See also Category: 1757 deaths.