1750

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Decades: 1720s  1730s  1740s  - 1750s -  1760s  1770s  1780s
Years: 1747 1748 1749 - 1750 - 1751 1752 1753
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Year 1750 (MDCCL) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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[edit] Events of 1750

[edit] January - June

  • January - A fire in Istanbul destroys 10,000 houses.
  • March 2 - A small earthquake hits London, England.
  • April 4 - A small earthquake hits Warrington, England.
  • April - A second fire devastates Istanbul (see January). A third fire later in the year will destroys a further 10,000 homes.
  • May - Riots break out in Paris, fueled by rumors of police abducting children.

[edit] July - December

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  • "James Gray" reveals her sex to her Royal Marines compatriots.
  • Ahmad Shah Bahadur's army, retreating from Persia, is said to have lost 18,000 men near what is present-day Herat, Afghanistan from cold in a single night.
  • King of Dahomey has income of 250,000 pounds from overseas export of slaves.
  • Galley slavery is abolished in Europe.[2]

[edit] Births

1750 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1750
MDCCL
Ab urbe condita 2503
Armenian calendar 1199
ԹՎ ՌՃՂԹ
Bahá'í calendar -94 – -93
Berber calendar 2700
Buddhist calendar 2294
Burmese calendar 1112
Chinese calendar 4386/4446-11-23
(己巳年十一月廿三日)
— to —
4387/4447-12-3
(庚午年十二月初三日)
Coptic calendar 1466 – 1467
Ethiopian calendar 1742 – 1743
Hebrew calendar 5510 – 5511
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1805 – 1806
 - Shaka Samvat 1672 – 1673
 - Kali Yuga 4851 – 4852
Holocene calendar 11750
Iranian calendar 1128 – 1129
Islamic calendar 1163 – 1164
Japanese calendar Kan'en 3
(寛延3年)
Korean calendar 4083
Thai solar calendar 2293
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[edit] Deaths

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Calendar for year 1750 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar), Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage: Julian1750.
  2. ^ Clear, Todd R., Cole, George F., Resig, Michael D. (2006). American Corrections Seventh Edition. Thompson.