1756

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1756 (MDCCLVI) was a leap year beginning on Thursday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January 16: Westminster Treaty.
February 15: An earthquake of 6.4 shakes the German city of Düren.
January 27: birth of the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
March 17: The Crown and Thistle Tavern (New York) are celebrated for the first time on St. Patrick's Day.
April 12: In the framework of the Seven Years War, the French invade Menorca, then under British control.
1 May: at the Palace of Versailles, France and Austria sign the first Treaty of Versailles.
May 17: In the framework of the Seven Years War, war begins formally when England declares war on France.
May 20: In the framework of the Seven Years War, Battle of Menorca is delivered: The British fleet under the command of John Byng is defeated by the French under the command of Augustin de la Gallisonnière.
May 28: In the framework of the Seven Years War, the British garrison in Menorca surrenders to the French.
June 25: The Marine Society was founded in London, the oldest marine navigator charity in the world.

The Empress Isabel on the terrace of the newly built Palacio de Catalina (1905), painting by Eugene Lanceray, now at the Tretyakov Gallery.

July 30: Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents Catherine's newly built Palace to Queen Elizabeth I of Russia and its courtiers.
August 14: In the framework of the Seven Years War, Fort Oswego falls to the French.
17 August: in Padua, Italy, a tornado (possibly an F3).
August 29: Federico II the Great invades Saxony, beginning the war on the continent.
October 1st: In the framework of the Seven Years War the battle of Lobositz is waged: Federico II the Great defeats an Austrian fleet under the Marshal Ulises Maximiliano von Browne.
17 October: the Saxony Army surrenders.
December: In the framework of the Seven Years War, militias from North Carolina province build a fort on the western border of the province to protect themselves against native allies with the French. The fort is called Fort Dobbs in honor of the governor of North Carolina, Arthur Dobbs, who persuaded the legislature of his province to begin construction a year earlier.

Federico II the Great Force to the peasants of Prussia to sow the unpopular and dark potato.
In Central Asia, the Chinese exterminate the Zungaria and conquer the valley of the Ili River.
France occupies the Seychelles Islands.
It is founded La Higuerita, a fishing port of importance in the southwest of Spain, currently Isla Cristina, on the occasion of the coastal devastation suffered by the earthquake of Lisbon of 1755.

The French porcelain factory moves to Sèvres.
Frances Abington creates theatrical company Drury Lane.
Tobias Smollett becomes editor of Literary Review.
Gilbert White becomes a coadjutor of Selborne (Hampshire).
Thomas Amory: Life of John Buncle.
Edmund Burke: A Vindication of Natural Society: A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind.
Johann Matthias Gesner: Primæ lineæ isagoges in eruditionem universalem.
Solomon Gessner: Idilios.
Emanuel Swedenborg: Celestial arks

- Baldassare Galuppi: Idomeneo
- Pierre van Maldere: Le Déguisement pastorale
- Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre
- Antonio Sacchini: Fra Donato

Birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Principal level: Born in 1756

January 27: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian musician and composer (f. 1791).
17 February: Juan Pablo Forner, a Spanish writer (f. 1799).
March 3: William Godwin, English politician and writer (f. 1836)
March 24: Franziska Lebrun, German singer and composer (f. 1791).
March 30: Juan Antonio Llorente, secretary general and historian of the Inquisition (f. 1823).
August 29: Jan Śniadecki, mathematician, astronomer and Polish philosopher (f. 1830).
September 1: Miguel José Sanz, Venezuelan jurist and procer (f. 1814).
September 22: William Smith, British politician and abolitionist (f. 1835).

Principal level: Death in 1756

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