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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1756
Events from the year
1756 in
Great Britain .
Incumbents
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire
Events
16 January –
Treaty of Westminster signed between Britain and
Prussia guaranteeing the neutrality of
Hanover , the German province controlled by King
George II .
[2]
12 April –
Siege of Fort St Philip begins when the French under
Armand de Vignerot du Plessis , Duke of Richelieu, land near Port
Mahón on
Menorca and besiege the British garrison here in a prelude to the Seven Years' War.
17 May –
Seven Years' War formally begins when Britain declares war on
France .
[2]
20 May – Seven Years' War:
Battle of Minorca : The British fleet under
John Byng is defeated by the French under
Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière .
20 June – a
garrison of the
British Army in
India is imprisoned in the
Black Hole of Calcutta .
[2]
25 June – foundation of
The Marine Society in London, the world's oldest seafarers' charity.
[3]
29 June –
Seven Years' War :
Siege of Fort St Philip at Port
Mahón ends when the British garrison in
Menorca surrenders to the French under the Duke of Richelieu after two months' siege.
6 October –
hurricane hits Britain causing large losses of corn and other crops.
[4]
16 November –
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne , resigns as
Prime Minister after British failure in the
Battle of Minorca . He is succeeded by the
Pitt–Devonshire ministry formed by
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire , and
William Pitt .
[5]
4 December – Pitt becomes
Secretary of State for the Southern Department .
[5]
Undated – completion of
William Edwards '
Old Bridge, Pontypridd . With a 140 ft (43 m) span it becomes (by 10 ft) the longest single-span bridge in Great Britain, remaining so for 40 years.
[6]
[7]
Publications
Births
Unknown date –
Peter William Baker , politician (died 1815)
3 March –
William Godwin , writer (died
1836 )
4 March –
Henry Raeburn , Scottish painter (died
1823 )
[8]
April –
William Gifford , satirist, critic, editor, poet, and controversialist(died
1826 )
13 June –
Edmund Lodge , writer (died
1839 )
21 September –
John Loudon McAdam , highway engineer (died
1836 )
7 October –
Jemmy Wood , banker and miser (died
1836 )
13 November –
Edward Rushton ,
abolitionist and pioneer of education for the blind (died
1814 )
18 November –
Thomas Burgess , Bishop, author and philosopher (died
1837 )
22 November –
Gilbert Wakefield , scholar (died
1801 )
Deaths
See also
References
^ Bryant, Christopher (2014).
Parliament: The Biography . Doubleday.
ISBN
978-0-85752-224-5 .
^
a
b
c Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p.
318 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^
"History of the Marine Society" . Archived from
the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-09-03 .
^ Urban, Sylvanus, ed. (1756), The Gentleman's Magazine , D. Henry & R. Cave, p. 462
^
a
b
c Everett, Jason M., ed. (2006). "1756". The People's Chronology . Thomson Gale.
^ Ruddock, Ted (2008).
"The Theory of Arches and Pontypridd" . Arch Bridges and their Builders 1735–1835 . Cambridge University Press.
ISBN
978-0-521-09021-6 . Retrieved 2009-01-19 .
^ Skempton, A. W.; Chrimes, Mike (2002).
A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500 to 1830 . Thomas Telford. pp. 217–18.
ISBN
0-7277-2939-X .
^
"Sir Henry Raeburn (1756-1823)" . National Records of Scotland . 31 May 2013. Retrieved 24 June 2022 .