Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
Years: 1749 1750 1751 1752 1753 - 1754 - 1755 1756 1757 1758 1759
Events Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mahmud I (1730-1754) to Osman III (1754-1757) Beginning of the French and Indian War in North America. Births February 2 - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, politician (+ 1838) March 17 - Madame Roland (Manon Jeanne Phlipon) (+ 1793) June 4 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, German Scientific Editor, Astronomer August 23 - King Louis XVI of France October 1 - Emperor Paul I of Russia ? - William Murdoch, inventor Deaths Monarchs/Presidents China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796) France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774) Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760) Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786) Russia - Elizabeth Empress of Russia (reigned from 1741 to January 5, 1762) Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland) Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)\n
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