1756

events

politics

• the king in Prussia, Friedrich II. arranges the cultivation of potato in Pommern and Schlesien .
• To 16. Prussia and a Britisher the convention close January of Westminster, a defensive contract to the protection of Hanover.
• To 18. February is shaken the region around Düren by an earthquake of the strength 8.
• Reversal of the alliances: At the 1. Maythe contract is decided by Versailles (alliance of France with Austria and Russia).
• To 15. The Frenchmen the British away Oswego at the Ontariosee conquer August.
• To 29. August march 70,000 Prussian soldiers into the cure principality Saxonia and occupied to 10. September Dresden. Beginning of the 7-jährigen of war (third Schlesi war).
• To 13. October receives Friedrich II. during its course from Lobositz to Saxonia the message over emerging the Austrian relief army.
• To 14. October takes place the outbreak of the SaxonianTroops over the Elbe in Saxonian Switzerland. The Saxonian Commander-in-Chief Friedrich August count Rutowski negotiates about the surrender conditions.
• Between that 17. and 19. Octobers are pressed in Pirna Saxonian battalions into the Prussian army. From 18.500 Saxonian soldiersten new regiments are set up.
• In November the Prussian army is distributed on the winter accomodation and Friedrich II. Brühl stays to Dresden in the palace.

science

culture

born

• 3. January: JeromePétion de Villeneuve, Anführer during the French revolution († 1794)
• 14. January: Joseph Marius of Babo, German writer († 1822)
• 21. January: Claude Chauveau Lagarde, French lawyer († 1841)
• 22. January: Vincenzo Righini, composer († 1812)
• 27. January: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer († 1791)
• 29. January: Henry Lee, US-American Kavallerieoffizier, major general and politician († 1818)
• 5. February: Mathias of Flurl,Founder of the Bavarian mineralogy and geology († 1823)
• 6. February: Aaron Burr, US-American politician and US vice-president († 1836)
• 9. February: Karel Blažej Kopřiva, Czech composer († 1785)
• 26. February: Christian Frederik Hansen, Architect († 1845)
• 27. February: Johann Jakob Cella, German lawyer († 1820)
• 3. March: William Godwin, English writer († 1836)
• 22. March: Caspar Zeller, entrepreneur († 1823)
• 1. April: Paul Wolfgang Merkel, first delegates of Nuremberg in the Bavarian federal state parliament († 1820)
• 22. April: Francisco Javier Castaños, Spanish duke and general († 1852)
• 23. April: Jean Nicolas Billaud Varenne, French revolutionary († 1819)
• 1. May: NIC louse wolf of serrate-ore-shrank, from Swiss farmer and sound one († 1832)
• 6. May: André Masséna, marshal of France, duke of Rivoli and prince of Essling († 1817)
• 27. May: Maximilian I.Joseph, king of Bavaria († 1825)
• 6. June: John Trumbull, US-American artist († 1843)
• 20. June: Joseph Martin Kraus, German composer and Kapellmeister († 1792)
• 2. July: Christian Gottfried of grains,German publisher, friend Schillers († 1831)
• 14. July: Thomas Rowlandson, British painter and caricaturist († 1827)
• 1. August: Pierre Louis Prieur, French politician († 1827)
• 12. August: François de Beauharnais, Adeliger(† 1823)
• 12. August: William Tilghman, US-American lawyer and politician († 1827)
• 14. August: Olof Åhlström, Swedish composer († 1835)
• 29. August: Heinrich of barking guard, Austria. Field gentleman and statesman († 1845)
• 2. September: Carl Englerth, owner of mine and mayor († 1814)
• 15. September: Karl Philipp Moritz, writer of the early romance († 1793)
• 21. September: John McAdam, invented an ingeniously simple road surfacing († 1836)
• 22. September: Claude Victor de Broglie, French politician and general († 1794)
• 26. October: Dmitri Sergejewitsch Dochturow, Russian general of the napoleonischen wars († 1816)
• 23. November: Christian Jacob car-hurry, writers, reconnaissance aircraft and journalist(† 1839)
• 30. November: Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni, German scientist († 1827)
• 8. December: Maximilian Franz of Austria, ore duke of Austria and archbishop of Cologne († 1801)
• 10. December: Friedrich Franz I.(Mecklenburg), Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin († 1837)
• 26. December: Bernard Germain Étienne de La Ville sur Illon La Cépède, French natural scientist and first large chancellor of the medal of the Ehrenlegion († 1825)

died

• 18. January: Franz George ofBeautiful fount, cure prince archbishop, prince bishop, Fürstpropst (* 1682)
• 10. April: Giacomo Antonio Perti, Italian composer (* 1661)
• 16. April: Jacques Cassini, French astronomer and geographer (* 1677)
• 18. August: Earthling new master, GermanMore closely and theologian (* 1671)
• 11. September: Johann Nikolaus Frobes, was a mathematician, physicist and philosopher (* 1701)
• 26. October: Johann Theodor Roemhildt, German baroque composer (* 1684)
• 11. December: Theodor of newhope,German adventurer and the first and only king of Korsika (* 1694)
• 16. December: Balthasar king, German organ farmer (* 1684)
• 27. December: Peter Karl Christoph of Keith, was the body PAGE of the Crown Prince Friedrich (of thelater king Friedrich the large one of Prussia) (* 1711)