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1757 (MDCCLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1757th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 757th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 18th … See more
January–March
• January 2 – Seven Years' War: The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India.
• January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful … See more• January 11 – Alexander Hamilton, first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (most cited date of birth) (d. 1804)
• January 16 – Richard Goodwin Keats, British admiral, Governor of Newfoundland (d. 1834)
• February 3 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist (d. See more• January 9 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist, man of letters (b. 1657)
• January 19 – Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1664)
• February 5 – Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton, English diplomat (b. 1678 See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license - People also ask