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

1756 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1756 MDCCLVI
Ab urbe condita	2509
Armenian calendar	1205 ԹՎ ՌՄԵ
Assyrian calendar	6506
Balinese saka calendar	1677–1678
Bengali calendar	1163
Berber calendar	2706
British Regnal year	29 Geo. 2 – 30 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2300
Burmese calendar	1118
Byzantine calendar	7264–7265
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4452 or 4392     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4453 or 4393
Coptic calendar	1472–1473
Discordian calendar	2922
Ethiopian calendar	1748–1749
Hebrew calendar	5516–5517
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1812–1813
- Shaka Samvat	1677–1678
- Kali Yuga	4856–4857
Holocene calendar	11756
Igbo calendar	756–757
Iranian calendar	1134–1135
Islamic calendar	1169–1170
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 6 (宝暦６年)
Javanese calendar	1681–1682
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4089
Minguo calendar	156 before ROC 民前156年
Nanakshahi calendar	288
Thai solar calendar	2298–2299
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Wood-Boar) 1882 or 1501 or 729     — to — མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 1883 or 1502 or 730

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)

Deaths