Explore 154 historical events from 1750–1759.
Humphry Repton was the last great designer of the classic phase of the English landscape garden, often regarded as the successor to Capability Brown. His style is thought of as the…
Humphry Repton, English gardener and author (died 1818)
Ludwig August Lebrun was a German oboist and composer.
Ludwig August Lebrun, German oboe player and composer (died 1790)
John Brooks was an American medical doctor, military officer, and politician from Massachusetts. He served as the 11th Governor of Massachusetts from 1816 to 1823, and was one of t…
John Brooks, American soldier and politician, 11th Governor of Massachusetts (died 1825)
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach was a German medical doctor, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparat…
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German physician, physiologist, and anthropologist (died 1840): 94
Timothy Dwight was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian, and author. He was the eighth president of Yale College (1795–1817).
Timothy Dwight IV, American minister, theologian, and academic (died 1817)
Albrecht Daniel Thaer was a German agronomist and a supporter of the humus theory for plant nutrition.
Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist and author (died 1828)
Louis Legendre was a French politician of the Revolution period.
Louis Legendre, French butcher and politician (died 1797)
Joseph Marie Charles dit Jacquard was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom, which in turn played an import…
Joseph Marie Jacquard, French merchant, invented the Jacquard loom (died 1834)
Frances Burney, also known as Fanny Burney and later Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. In 1786–1790 she held the post of "Keeper of the Robes" to Ch…
Frances Burney, English novelist and playwright (died 1840)
David Humphreys was an American Revolutionary War colonel and aide de camp to George Washington, a secretary and intelligence agent for Benjamin Franklin in Paris, American ministe…
David Humphreys (soldier), American Revolutionary War colonel, politician, foreign minister and entrepreneur.
St. George Tucker was a Bermudian-born American lawyer, military officer and professor who taught law at the College of William & Mary. He strengthened the requirements for a law d…
St. George Tucker, United States federal judge (died 1827)
Samuel Smith was an American Senator and Representative from Maryland, a mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, and a general in the Maryland militia. He was the older brother of cabinet se…
Samuel Smith, American general and politician (died 1839)
Samuel Ogle was the 16th, 18th and 20th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1731 to 1732, 1733 to 1742, and 1746/1747 to 1752.
Samuel Ogle, English-American captain and politician, 5th Governor of Restored Proprietary Government (born 1692)
William Bradford was an early American colonial printer and publisher in British America. Bradford is best known for establishing the first printing press in the Middle Colonies of…
William Bradford, English-American printer (born 1663)
Joseph Butler was an English Anglican bishop, theologian, apologist, and philosopher, born in Wantage in the English county of Berkshire. His principal works are the Fifteen Sermon…
Joseph Butler, English bishop and philosopher (born 1692)
Giulio Alberoni was an Italian cardinal and statesman in the service of Philip V of Spain.
Giulio Alberoni, Spanish cardinal (born 1664)
Johann Christoph Pepusch, also known as John Christopher Pepusch and Dr Pepusch, was a German-born Baroque composer who spent most of his working life in England.
Johann Christoph Pepusch, German-English composer and theorist (born 1667)
Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Peter Warren, KB was a Royal Navy officer and politician who represented Westminster in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1747 to 1752. Warren …
Peter Warren, Irish admiral and politician (born 1703)
Pope Benedict XIV, born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 17 August 1740 to his death on 3 May 1758.
Pope Benedict XIV suppresses the Patriarchate of Aquileia and establishes from its territory the Archdiocese of Udine…
Judith Sargent Stevens Murray was an early American advocate for women's rights, an essay writer, playwright, poet, and letter writer. She was one of the first American proponents …
Judith Sargent Murray, American poet and playwright (died 1820)
Stephen Badlam was an American artisan and military officer. Raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Badlam was orphaned as a young child following the death of his father, a tavern-k…
Stephen Badlam, American artisan and military officer (died 1815)
Maria Anna Walburga Ignatia "Marianne" Mozart, also known by her nickname Nannerl, was a distinguished musician from Salzburg. In her childhood, she developed into an outstanding k…
Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (died 1829)
Nicolas François de Neufchâteau was a French statesman, poet, and agricultural scientist.
François de Neufchâteau, French academic and politician, French Minister of the Interior (died 1828)
Major John André was a British Army officer who served as the head of Britain's intelligence operations during the American War for Independence. In September 1780, André negotiate…
John André, English soldier and spy (died 1780)