1757

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[edit] Events of 1757

May 6 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Prague: Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.

June 18 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Kolin: Frederick is defeated by an Austrian army under Marshal Daun, forcing him to evacuate Bohemia.
June 23 - Battle of Plassey: 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.

July 26 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Hastenbeck: An Anglo-Hanoverian army under the Duke of Cumberland is defeated by the French under Louis d'Estrées and forced out of Hanover.
July 30 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: A Prussian army under Hans von Lehwald is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin.
French and Indian War: A French army under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm forces the English to surrender Fort William Henry. The French army's Indian allies slaughter the survivors, not understanding what the terms of the surrender were.
October 16 - Seven Years' War: Austrian raiders plunder Berlin.
October 30 - Osman III dies and is succeeded as Ottoman Sultan by Mustafa III.
November 5 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Rossbach: Frederick defeats the French-Imperial army under the Duc de Soubise and Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, forcing the French to withdraw from Saxony.
November 22 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Breslau: An Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine defeats the Prussian army of Wilhelm of Brunswick-Bevern and forces the Austrians behind the Oder.
December 6 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick defeats Prince Charles's Austrian army in what is generally considered the Prussian king's greatest tactical victory.

See also Category: 1757 births.

January 9 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (born 1657)
January 19 - Thomas Ruddiman, Scottish classical scholar (born 1664)
March 1 - Edward Moore, English writer (born 1712)
March 8 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (born 1701)
March 12 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (born 1696)
March 14 - John Byng, British admiral (executed) (born 1704)
March 27 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (born 1717)
May 6 - Maximilian Ulysses Reichsgraf von Browne, Austrian field marshal (born 1705)
May 6 - Charles FitzRoy, 2nd Duke of Grafton, British politician (born 1683)
May 6 - Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin, Prussian field marshal (born 1684)

See also Category: 1757 deaths.