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Thu Oct 12 2000 at 2:49:35
Born in 1757:
English
poet
William Blake
.
Scottish
engineer
Thomas Telford
.
South Carolina
politician
Charles Pinckney
, delegate to the
US
Constitutional Convention
of
1787
.
Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de
Lafayette
.
Died in 1757:
Italian
composer
Domenico Scarlatti
Bohemian
composer
Johann Stammitz
French
physicist
René Réaumur
British
admiral
John Byng
, shot for
dereliction of duty
because of the
Minorca
incident
the previous year
.
Siraj-ud-daulah
, Nawab of Bengal, at Plassey.
Ottoman
Sultan
Osman Khan II
.
Events of 1757:
French and Indian War
/
Seven Years' War
:
The Marquis de
Montcalm
captures Fort William Henry on Lake George. After the British and Colonial troops surrender the fort, Montcalm's
Indian
allies massacre all but 400 of the 2200 residents.
Virginia
sends an expeditionary force against the
Shawnee
Indians.
A
smallpox
epidemic (possibly helped along by infected blankets graciously donated by British Lord
Jeffrey Amherst
) removes most of the Great Lakes Indian tribes from the war.
William Pitt
becomes
Prime Minister
.
King
Frederick the Great
of
Prussia
loses 15,000 men at the
Battle of Kölin
in
Bohemia
. The
Russian
army could have walked into
Berlin
, but they just stopped and sat down.
Later in the year, Frederick defeats the
Austrian
s at the
Battle of Leuthen
, and Austria loses its last chance of regaining
Silesia
.
A Gloucestershire pharmacist responds to a smallpox outbreak by inoculating a few local lads (including
Edward Jenner
) using a dried smallpox scab.
Pennsylvania
sends
Benjamin Franklin
to
London
to complain about the system of
taxation
.
At the
"Battle" of Plassey
,
Robert Clive
"defeats" the army of the
Nawab
("
Nabob
") of
Bengal
,
Suraj-ud-Daulah
. Clive had apparently bribed the Nawab's brother
Mir Jafar
and half his army to desert. Mir Jafar is installed as ruler of
Bengal
, but this can be properly called the beginning of
British rule in India
.
David Hume
publishes
The Natural History of Religion
.
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Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of Grafton
Samuel Romilly
Charles Pinckney
Clapham's Ferry
William Blake
Erik Acharius
Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth
French and Indian War
Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth
Dogs, do you want to live forever?
Selected Ambient Works II
1752
Smallpox
Motoori Norinaga
Rudjer Boskovic
757
Battle of Plassey
Huddersfield
George Vancouver
1704
Bohemian
John Byng
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