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A French official travels down the Ohio valley, placing markers to claim it for France
Henry Fielding introduces a character of lasting appeal in the lusty but good-hearted Tom Jones
Shortly before his death (in 1750) J.S. Bach completes his Mass in B Minor, worked on over many years
Naval engagements are now fought in lines of battle, with only the most heavily armed vessels rated as 'ships of the line'
Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London
Horace Walpole forms a 'Committee of Taste' with friends John Chute and Richard Bentley, and creates his 'little Gothic castle' over the next 50 years, giving rise to the style 'Strawberry Hill Gothic'.
A bridge is opened at Westminster
Robert Clive prevails over the French after holding out during the seven-week siege of Arcot in southern India
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo begins a series of frescoes to decorate the prince bishop's residence in Würzburg
A great French undertaking by Denis Diderot, his 28-volume Encyclopédie, begins publication
The Swedish chemist Alex Cronstedt identifies an impurity in copper ore as a separate metallic element, which he names nickel
English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard
Richard Owen Cambridge, after whom the house is named, buys Cambridge Park.
French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin returns to the subject matter that first took his interest, still life
English gardener Lancelot Brown sets up in business as a freelance 'improver of grounds', and soon acquires the nickname Capablity Brown
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
English obstetrician William Smellie introduces scientific midwifery as a result of his researches into childbirth
The French seize or evict every English-speaking trader in the region of the upper Ohio
Benjamin Franklin flies a kite into a thunder cloud to demonstrate the nature of electricity
French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard wins the cherished Prix de Rome at the age of 20
George Washington undertakes a difficult and ineffectual journey to persuade the French to withdraw from the Ohio valley
Walpole adds the library and refectory or great parlour to Strawberry Hill.
The first, highly decorative, Hampton Court Bridge with seven steep sided arches opens and replaces the ferry and the ford used in the drier season
In Freedom of Will American evangelist Jonathan Edwards makes an uncompromising defence of orthodox against liberal Calvinism
David Garrick, famous Shakespearian actor, leases and then buys what was known as Hampton House, now Garrick's Villa, as a country retreat and place to entertain friends
