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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years: 1747 1748 1749 1750 1751 - 1752 - 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757
Events
- February 11 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, is opened.
- September 14 - The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar, making it necessary to skip eleven days (September 2 being followed directly by September 14 this year)
- Adam Smith at the University of Glasgow transfers to professor of moral philosophy
- English Scientist Lord John Davies first observes what is later recognised as respiratory collapse
Year in topic
Births
- January 1 - Betsy Ross, American entrepreneur (died 1836)
- January 31 - Gouverneur Morris, American diplomat and politician (died 1815)
- February 25 - John Graves Simcoe, first Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada (died 1806)
- May 11 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (died 1840)
- June 13 - Fanny Burney, English novelist and diarist (died 1840)
- July 7 - Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor (died 1834)
- September 18 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (died 1833)
- November 20 - Thomas Chatterton, English poet (died 1770)
- John Nash, English architect (died 1835)
- Humphry Repton, English garden designer (died 1818)
- Philip Freneau, American poet (died 1832)
Deaths
- June 16 - Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (born 1664)
- June 16 - Joseph Butler, English priest and theologian (born 1692)
- Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician (born 1704)
- Jacopo Amigoni, Italian painter (born 1675)
- Michael Festing, English violinist and composer (born 1680)
- Jean Francois de Troy, French painter (born 1679)
- Johann Christoph Pepusch, German composer (born 1667)
- Francis Blomefield, English topographer (born 1705)
Monarchs/Presidents
- China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
- France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
- Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
- Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
- Russia - Elizabeth Empress of Russia (reigned from 1741 to January 5, 1762)
- Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)
- Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)
