1756 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

Events

• Frederick II of Prussia forces his country's peasants to grow the unpopular and obscure potato

January

• January 27 - ^*Mozart was born in Austria.

February

March

• March 17 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).

April

• April 12 - Seven Years' War: The French invade Minorca, then under British control.

May

• May 17 - Seven Years' War: The Seven Years' War formally begins when England declares war on France.
• May 20 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Minorca: The English fleet under John Byng is defeated by the French under Augustin de la Gallisonnière.
• May 28 - Seven Years' War: The British garrison in Minorca surrenders to the French.

June

• June 25 - Foundation of * The Marine Society in London, the world's oldest seafarers' charity.

July

• July 30 - Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly-built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

August

• August 14 - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Fort Oswego falls to the French.
• August 29 - Frederick the Great invades Saxony, beginning the war on the continent.

September

October

• October 1 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Lobositz: Frederick defeats an Austrian army under Marshal Maximilian von Browne.

November

December

• December - Seven Years' War: French and Indian War: Militias of the Province of North Carolina build a fort on the province's western frontier to protect it against natives allied with the French. The fort is named Fort Dobbs in honor of North Carolina Governor Arthur Dobbs, who persuaded the North Carolina legislature to fund the construction a year earlier.

Ongoing events

• French and Indian War (1754-1763)
• Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

Births

• January 27 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
• February 6 - Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
• March 3 - William Godwin, English writer (d. 1836)
• March 4 - Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
• May 18 - Ignaz Aurelius Fessler, court councillor and minister to Alexander I (d. 1839)
• May 27 - Maximilian I of Bavaria (d. 1825)
• June 6 - John Trumbull, American painter (d. 1843)
• June 20 - Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer (d. 1792)
• August 1 - Pierre Louis Prieur, French politician (d. 1827)
• August 29 - Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845)
• September 7 - Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch author (d. 1831)
• November 3 - Pierre Laromiguière, French philosopher (d. 1837)
• Abdullah bin Sabah, Kuwaiti ruler (d. 1814)
• Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, Swedish statesman (d. 1813)
• Guillaume-Antoine Olivier, French entemologist

Deaths

• February 25 - Eliza Haywood, English actress and writer (b. 1693)
• April 10 - Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (b. 1661)
• April 18 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (b. 1677)
• July 24 - George Vertue, English engraver and antiquary (b. 1684)
• December 8 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington, English statesman and diplomat
• Bernard Accama, Dutch painter (b. 1697)

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