History
1756
General
Population: 838 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Robert and James Dodsley Theatrical Records, William Mason Odes, Voltaire, Edmund Burke,
Thomas Birch History of the Royal Society of London, Alban Butler (the saints), Arthur Collins (peerage of England), Mirabeau
Art includes Reynolds "Admiral Holbourne and His Son", George Stubbs (horse anatomy)
Piranesi's engravings of ancient Roman ruins published
Music includes Leopold Mozart
- Food: Mayonnaise invented
Americas
- General: French drive Britain from Great Lakes - Seven Years' War enters America as French and Indian War
Asia
- India: 146 British soldiers imprisoned and 120 die in "Black Hole of Calcutta" – imprisoned by Nawab Siraj-ud Daulah
Robert Clive sets out from Calcutta against Nawab of Bengal and relieves English fugitives at Fulta
Europe
- General: Seven Years' War begins with Prussia and Britain vs France, Austria and Russia
Anglo-Prussian Treaty of Westminster
Battle of Lobosik Bohemia – Saxon army capitulates to Frederick the Great at Pirna
War between Prussia and Austria again - Austria gains allies of Mme Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV, and Empress Elizabeth I of Russia due to William II of Prussia's insulting poetry
Treaty of Westminster between Britain and Prussia
Treaty of Versailles between France and Austria
- France: Porcelain factory founded at Sevres
Frederick I invades Saxony
France is offered Netherlands as reward for helping Austria
- German States: First chocolate factory in Germany
- Great Britain: End prime minister Duke of Newcastle and begin service of Duke of Devonshire William Pitt
John Smeaton builds tower on Eddystone Lighthouse
Cotton velvets first made at Bolton Lancashire
- Italian States: Casanova escapes from Piombi in Venice
- Russia: Russian Royal Court Theater founded at St. Petersburg
General
- Headlines: French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) begins with French, Austrians, and Russians against British and Germans
- Language: American dialect first recognized
- Military: French General Montcalm captures major British forts
Battle on Canadian border
East
- General: Stagecoach service between new York and Philadelphia – 3 days
- Pennsylvania: Six leading Quakers resign from Pennsylvania assembly