History
1757
General
Population: 840 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include JJ Bodmer (poetry), John Dyer (poetry), Gellert (German), John Home (tragedy), Denis Diderot, Richard Price (morals),
Art includes Gainsborough "The Artist's Daughter with a Cat", Greuze "La Paresseuse Italienne"
- Deaths: Author Bernard de Fontenelle, Actor Colley Cibber, Scientist Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, Composer Domenico Scarlatti, Composer Johann Stamitz,
Assassin JF Damiens, Artist Daniel Gran, Violinist Niccolo Pasquali
Africa
- Morocco: End of 30 years of anarchy as Sidi Mohammed begins rule
Americas
- Chile: Earthquake and tsunami kill 5000
Asia
- Burma: End of second Pegu kingdom – Burma unites under Konbaung dynasty
- India: Robert Clive defeats Siraj ud daula, Nawab of Bengal at Battle of Plassey and retakes Calcutta
British defeat the French in India at Plassey
Bengal province in India secured for Britain
Europe
- General: Seven Years' War continues
Battle of Rossbach where Frederick the Great defeats French and Austrians
Austria gains French, Swedish, Prussian and Russian support
French vs William II at Silesia at Battle of Leuthen
Russia joins alliance with France and Austria
- France: J.F. Damiens attempts to assassinates Louis XV and is executed
Parlement of Toulouse publically burns books of Hermann Busembaum
Soufflot creates St. Genevieve in Paris – later the Pantheon
Defeat of French army at Rossbach
- German States: Frederick the Great defeats Austrians at Prauge and is defeated by them at Kolin – defeats them again at Rossbach and Leuthen
- Great Britain: William Pitt becomes Prime Minister
Middle East
- General: End of Dzungar empire in Near East
General
- Headlines: French and Indian War (Seven Years' War) continues
- Military: Battle of Fort William Henry sees 70 to 180 British and colonists killed by French and Natives
East
- Pennsylvania: First public concert in Philadelphia