1756

1756 (MDCCLVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1756th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 756th year of the 2nd millennium, the 56th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1756, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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)

1756 Media

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  May 17: The Seven Years' War begins.

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  July 30: Empress Elizabeth of Russia opens the newly built Catherine Palace.

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  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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  Portrait of Eliza Haywood (1693-1756), English writer.