1750

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).

Events of 1750

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 5 - First known case of harlequin type ichthyosis is reported.
• April - A second fire devastates Istanbul (see January).
• May - Riots break out in Paris, fueled by rumors of police abducting children.

July - December

• July - José I takes over the throne of Portugal from his deceased father, João V. King José Manuel appoints the Marquis of Pombal as his Chief Minister, who then strips the Inquisition of its power.
• August 23 - A small earthquake hits Spalding, Lincolnshire, England.
• September 30 - A small earthquake hits Northampton, England.
• November 16 - Westminster Bridge is officially opened.

Undated

• Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella (considered French fashion).
• "James Gray" reveals her sex to her Royal Marines compatriots.
• John Cleland publishes Fanny Hill, or The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
• 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.
• A third fire late in the year in Istanbul destroys 10,000 more houses (see above: January/April).
• King of Dahomey has income of 250,000 pounds from overseas export of slaves.
• Gallery slavery is abolished in Europe.^[2]
  • World population: 791,000,000
    • Africa: 106,000,000
    • Asia: 502,000,000
    • Europe: 163,000,000
    • Latin-America: 16,000,000
    • Northern America: 2,000,000
    • Oceania: 2,000,000

  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)
  - Imperial Year	Kōki 2410 (皇紀2410年)
  Korean calendar	4083
  Thai solar calendar	2293
  v • d • e

  • January 1 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1801)
  • April - Joanna Southcott, British religious fanatic (d. 1814)
  • April 17 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (d. 1828)
  • May 2 - John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War (d. 1780)
  • May 31 - Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian politician (d. 1822)
  • August 18 - Antonio Salieri, Italian composer (d. 1825)
  • September 26 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (d. 1810)
  • November 7 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
  • December 10 - Tipu Sultan, Sultan of Mysore (d. 1799)
  • December 23 - Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (d. 1827)
  • date unknown - Adwaita, Oldest tortoise (d. 2006) (alleged birth year; awaiting C-14 verification)

  See also Category: 1750 births.

  Deaths

  • January 16 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshal (b. 1667)
  • January 22 - Franz Xaver Josef von Unertl, Bavarian politician (b. 1675)
  • January 23 - Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Italian historian and scholar (b. 1672)
  • January 26 - Albert Schultens, Dutch philologist (b. 1686)
  • February 8 - Aaron Hill, English writer (b. 1685)
  • May 3 - John Willison, Scottish minister and writer (b. 1680)
  • May 28 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
  • June 15 - Marguerite De Launay, Baronne Staal, French writer (b. 1684)
  • July 28 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (b. 1685)
  • July 31 - King John V of Portugal (b. 1689)
  • August 12 - Rachel Ruysch, Dutch painter (b. 1664)
  • September 15 - Charles Theodore Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1690)
  • October 16 - Sylvius Leopold Weiss, German composer and lutenist (b. 1687)
  • December 1 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)

  See also Category: 1750 deaths.

  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. 

  
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