1750s  

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Ancient Rome (1757) by Giovanni Paolo Panini

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The 1750s decade ran from January 1, 1750, to December 31, 1759.

Art and culture

• 1755 Lisbon earthquake

Literature

Fiction

• Candide (1759) by Voltaire

Non-fiction

• L'Encyclopédie (1751) by Denis Diderot and Jean d’Alembert
• First volume of Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte is published in 1755
• A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) by Edmund Burke
• Heaven and Hell (1758) by Emanuel Swedenborg

Visual art

• Ancient Rome (1757) by Giovanni Paolo Panini
• Painting of Marie-Louise O'Murphy (c. 1751) by François Boucher

Music

Architecture

Births

Deaths

Politics and wars

Wars

• The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was fought between two rival alliances: the first consisting of the Kingdom of Great Britain, Hanover, and Austria; the second consisting of Austria, France, Imperial Russia, Saxony, and Sweden.

• French and Indian War (1754–1763)
• The Battle of Plassey (1757) in Bengal resulted in the beginning of British rule in India and the end of Indian independence.
• The Indian Wars http://www.newtotalitarians.com/index_files/TheIndianWars.htm

Technology

• Scientific navigation was developed.

People

World leaders

• Louis XV King of France (king from 1715 to 1774)
• Maria Theresa of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary
• Frederick II of Prussia, King of Prussia
• Mughal Empire

1. Ahmad Shah Bahadur 1748–1754
2. Alamgir II 1754–1759
3. Shah Jahan III 1759–1761

• Balaji Baji Rao (Peshwa of the Maratha Empire)
• Hyder Ali (Mysore)
• George II King of Great Britain (king from 1727 to 1760)
• Ferdinand VI King of Spain (king from 1746 to 1759)
• Karim Khan, the first Shah of the Zand dynasty of Persia