1756

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1720s  1730s  1740s  – 1750s –  1760s  1770s  1780s
Years:	1753 1754 1755 – 1756 – 1757 1758 1759

Events

• Mme Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont revises Beauty and the Beast.

Births

• January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
• February 6 – Aaron Burr, American politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
• March 3 – William Godwin, English journalist (d. 1836)
• May – John Macadam, Scottish engineer, invented Tarmac for the roads (d. 1836)