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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1756. 1756 (MDCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...
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    The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of...
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  • The Rule of 1756 or Rule of the War of 1756 was a policy of the Kingdom of Great Britain, and later the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that...
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  • Princess Hejing of the First Rank (固倫和靜公主; 10 August 1756 – 9 February 1775), was a royal of the Qing dynasty. Princess Hejin was the Qianlong Emperor's...
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    Events from the year 1756 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II Governor General of New France: Michel-Ange Duquesne...
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    between Prussia and Austria (together with its allies) that lasted from 1756 to 1763 and confirmed Prussia's control of the region of Silesia (now in...
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  • was a diplomatic agreement between France and Austria. It was signed in 1756 at the Palace of Versailles in France. There were four treaties signed on...
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    Robert Clive. "The Austrian War of Succession in 1740 and later the war in 1756 automatically led to a conflict in India...and British reverses during the...
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    William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents...
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    particularly depended on their native allies. Two years into the war, in 1756, Great Britain declared war on France, beginning the worldwide Seven Years'...
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    (‹See Tfd›German: Maria Amalia Josefa Anna; 22 October 1701 – 11 December 1756) was Holy Roman empress, queen of Bohemia, and electress of Bavaria among...
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    these buildings had begun to subside within a decade. The London Bridge Act 1756 (29 Geo. 2. c. 40) gave the City Corporation the power to purchase all the...
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  • Henry Arthur Herbert the elder (c. 1756 – 21 June 1821, Westminster) was a major landowner in County Kerry, Ireland, and a member of the Parliament of...
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    being allowed to retain the areas of Cochin they had annexed in 1755 and 1756. As a result of the agreement and because of Travancore's obligation to defend...
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  • The year 1756 in science and technology involved some significant events. Joseph Black describes how carbonates become more alkaline when they lose carbon...
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  • material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Stefan Garczyński" 1690–1756 – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (June 2012) (Learn how and...
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    Victor de Broglie, Prince of Broglie (Charles Louis Victor; 22 September 1756 – 27 June 1794) was a French soldier and politician who would be executed...
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    The Coup of 1756 (Swedish: Kuppen 1756) was an attempted coup d'état planned by Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden to abolish the rule of the Riksdag of the...
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  • the states of Malabar was the result of the Calicut's attack on Palghat in 1756–1757. This comprised the attacks of the Zamorin of Calicut on the Kingdom...
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    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (category 1756 births)
    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. Despite his short life, his...
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    William Smith (22 September 1756 – 31 May 1835) was a leading independent British politician, sitting as Member of Parliament (MP) for more than one constituency...
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  • inscriptions and figures, in bas-relief, are discovered at Bonn in Lower Germany. 1756: The Gallarus Oratory on the Dingle Peninsula of Ireland is first reported...
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    This makes it the oldest church in Wapping. The present remains date to 1756, when the church was rebuilt by Joel Johnson, who had trained as a carpenter...
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    the leadership of the Duke of Newcastle and when he resigned in October 1756, George II eventually asked Devonshire to form an administration. Devonshire...
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    of Rossbach took place on 5 November 1757 during the Third Silesian War (1756–1763, part of the Seven Years' War) near the village of Rossbach (Roßbach)...
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    Louise of Denmark and Norway (19 October 1726 – 8 August 1756) was a Danish and Norwegian princess, the daughter of King Christian VI of Denmark and his...
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    2007. The King's Royal Rifle Corps was raised in the American colonies in 1756 as the 62nd (Royal American) Regiment to defend the colonies against attack...
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    (typically 4 Shillings and 6 pence [4s, 6d]), which was later relaxed when in 1756, an Act of Parliament allowed the turnpike trusts to charge for the carriage...
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    the largest warship in the world at the time of her launch on 18 February 1756. Construction at Woolwich Dockyard had taken ten years. The ship saw immediate...
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