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| 1751 |
| | | The Swedish chemist Alex Cronstedt identifies an impurity in copper ore as a separate metallic element, which he names nickel | |
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| 1751 |
| | | English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard | |
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| 1751 |
| | | French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin returns to the subject matter that first took his interest, still life | |
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| 1751 |
| | | English gardener Lancelot Brown sets up in business as a freelance 'improver of grounds', and soon acquires the nickname Capablity Brown | |
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| 1752 |
| | | Britain is one of the last nations to adjust to the more accurate Gregorian calendar, causing a suspicious public to fear they have been robbed of eleven days | |
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| 1752 |
| | | English obstetrician William Smellie introduces scientific midwifery as a result of his researches into childbirth | |
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| 1752 |
| | | The French seize or evict every English-speaking trader in the region of the upper Ohio | |
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| 1752 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin flies a kite into a thunder cloud to demonstrate the nature of electricity | |
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| 1752 |
| | | French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard wins the cherished Prix de Rome at the age of 20 | |
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| 1753 |
| | | George Washington undertakes a difficult and ineffectual journey to persuade the French to withdraw from the Ohio valley | |
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| 1754 |
| | | In Freedom of Will American evangelist Jonathan Edwards makes an uncompromising defence of orthodox against liberal Calvinism | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin's chopped-up snake, urging union of the colonies with the caption 'Join or Die', is the first American political cartoon | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Quaker minister John Woolman publishes the first part of Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes, an essay denouncing slavery | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Scottish chemist Joseph Black identifies the existence of a gas, carbon dioxide, which he calls 'fixed air' | |
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| 1754 |
| | | George Washington kills ten French troops at Fort Duquesne, in the first violent clash of the French and Indian war | |
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| 1754 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin proposes to the Albany Congress that the colonies should unite to form a colonial government | |
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| 1754 |
| | | The British colonies negotiate with the Iroquois at the Albany Congress, in the face of the French threat in the Ohio valley | |
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| c. 1754 |
| | | Francesco Guardi, previously a painter of figures, begins to specialize in view of Venice, his native city | |
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| 1755 |
| | | A British force under Edward Braddock lands in America to provide support against the French in the Ohio valley | |
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| 1755 |
| | | Samuel Johnson publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English Language | |
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| 1755 |
| | | The first Conestoga wagons are acquired by George Washington for an expedition through the Alleghenies | |
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| 1755 |
| | | Johann Joachim Winckelmann publishes a book on Greek painting and sculpture which introduces a new strand of neoclassicism | |
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| 1755 |
| | | The army led by Edward Braddock and George Washington is ambushed at Fort Duquesne and Braddock is killed | |
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| 1756 |
| | | 122 people die after being locked overnight in a small room in Calcutta, in an incident that becomes known as the Black Hole of Calcutta | |
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| 1756 |
| | | The French in America, under the marquis of Montcalm, begin two highly successful years of campaigning against the British | |
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| 1756 |
| | | In what becomes known as the Diplomatic Revolution, two of Europe's long-standing rivals - France and Austria - sign a treaty of alliance | |
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| 1756 |
| | | Frederick the Great again precipitates a European conflict, marching without warning into Saxony and launching the Seven Years' War | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Admiral John Byng is shot on the deck of a ship in Portsmouth harbour for 'neglect of duty' in failing to relieve Minorca | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Robert Clive defeats the nawab of Bengal at the battle of Plassey, and places his own man on the throne | |
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