5th January » Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be Capital punishment named executed in France by Hanged, drawn and quartered e.g drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital puni
14th March » Admiral John Byng Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch 1747 6 for breach of the Articles of War.
23rd March » Capture of Chandannagar fort by United Kingdom e.g British forces.
6th May » The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
23rd June » Battle of Plassey: Three thousand Kingdom of Great Britain or British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey.
31st December » Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Russian Prussia known as Königsberg into Russia.
Famous Birthdays in 1757
11th January » Samuel Bentham, English engineer (d. 1831)
16th January » Richard Goodwin Keats, English admiral (d. 1834)
19th January » Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (d. 1831)
3rd February » Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (d. 1833)
6th February » Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Belarus-Polish poet, playwright, and politician (d. 1841)
19th April » Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth, English admiral and politician (d. 1833)
22nd April » Alessandro Rolla, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1841)
30th May » Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1844)
5th June » Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist and philosopher (d. 1808)
7th June » Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (d. 1806)
8th June » Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (d. 1824)
18th June » Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French pianist and composer (d. 1831)
18th June » Gervasio Antonio de Posadas, Argentinian lawyer and politician (d. 1833)
22nd June » George Vancouver, English lieutenant and explorer (d. 1798)
20th July » Garsevan Chavchavadze, Georgian politician and diplomat (d. 1811)
24th July » Vladimir Borovikovsky, Russian painter (d. 1825)
9th August » Thomas Telford, Scottish architect and engineer, designed the Menai Suspension Bridge (d. 1834)
23rd August » Marie Magdalene Charlotte Ackermann, German actress (d. 1775)
6th September » Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, French general (d. 1834)