1757 Calendar

January 5, 1757 – Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides.

March 14, 1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.

May 2, 1757 – End of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757)

May 6, 1757 – English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke’s Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.

June 18, 1757 – Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years’ War.

June 23, 1757 – Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.

November 5, 1757 – Seven Years’ War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.

December 5, 1757 – Seven Years’ War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.

January 11, 1757 – Samuel Bentham, English mechanical engineer (d. 1831)

February 6, 1757 – Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Polish scholar and statesman. (d. 1841)

May 30, 1757 – Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, British statesman (d. 1844)

June 22, 1757 – George Vancouver, British explorer (d. 1798)

July 24, 1757 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)

October 9, 1757 – King Charles X of France (d. 1836)

October 21, 1757 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France and duc de Castiglione (d. 1816)

October 26, 1757 – Karl Leonhard Reinhold, Austrian philosopher (d. 1823)

November 1, 1757 – Antonio Canova, Italian artist (d. 1822)

December 25, 1757 – Benjamin Pierce, U.S. politician (d. 1839)