1757 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar).

Events

January

• January 2 - Britain captures Calcutta, India.

February

March

• March 14 - Seven Years' War: On-board the HMS Monarch, Royal Navy Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for breach of the Articles of War.

April

May

• May 6 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Prague: Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.

June

• June 18 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Kolin: Frederick is defeated by an Austrian army under Marshal Daun, forcing him to evacuate Bohemia.
• June 23 - Battle of Plassey: 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj-ud-Dawlah at Plassey.

July

• July 26 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Hastenbeck: An Anglo-Hanoverian army under the Duke of Cumberland is defeated by the French under Louis d'Estrées and forced out of Hanover.
• July 30 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: A Prussian army under Hans von Lehwald is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin.

August

September

October

• October 16 - Seven Years' War: Austrian raiders plunder Berlin.
• October 30 - Osman III dies and is succeeded as Ottoman Sultan by Mustafa III.

November

• November 5 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Rossbach: Frederick defeats the French-Imperial army under the Duc de Soubise and Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, forcing the French to withdraw from Saxony.
• November 22 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Breslau: An Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine defeats the Prussian army of Wilhelm of Brunswick-Bevern and forces the Austrians behind the Oder.

December

• December 6 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick defeats Prince Charles's Austrian army in what is generally consideredhis greatest tactical victory.

Ongoing events

• Seven Years' War (1756-1763)

Births

• January 11 - Alexander Hamilton, first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (possible date of birth) (d. 1804)
• January 16 - Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Goodwin Keats Governor of Newfoundland, Canada. (d. 1834)
• February 20 - John 'Mad Jack' Fuller, English philanthropist and patron of the arts and sciences (d. 1834)
• April 9 - Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, British admiral (d. 1833)
• June 18 - Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentine leader (d. 1833)
• September 6 - Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, French soldier and statesman (d. 1834)
• October 9 - King Charles X of France (d. 1836)
• October 21 - Pierre François Charles Augereau, duc de Castiglione, French marshal (d. 1816)
• November 28 - William Blake, English poet (d. 1827)
• December 25 - Benjamin Pierce, American politician (d. 1839)

Deaths

• January 9 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
• January 19 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1664)
• March 1 - Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
• March 8 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
• March 14 - John Byng, British admiral (executed) (b. 1704)
• March 27 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
• May 6 - Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal (b. 1705)
• May 6 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (b. 1683)
• May 6 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (b. 1684)
• July 23 - Domenico Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1685)
• August 28 - David Hartley, English philosopher (b. 1705)
• October 17 - René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, French scientist (b. 1683)
• October 25 - Antoine Augustine Calmet, French theologian (b. 1672)
• October 30 - Osman III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1699)
• November 12 - Colley Cibber, English poet (b. 1671)
• December 11 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)

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