1757

1757 (MDCCLVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1757th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 757th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1757, 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:	1754 1755 1756 – 1757 – 1758 1759 1760

1757 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1757 MDCCLVII
Ab urbe condita	2510
Armenian calendar	1206 ԹՎ ՌՄԶ
Assyrian calendar	6507
Balinese saka calendar	1678–1679
Bengali calendar	1164
Berber calendar	2707
British Regnal year	30 Geo. 2 – 31 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2301
Burmese calendar	1119
Byzantine calendar	7265–7266
Chinese calendar	丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4453 or 4393     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4454 or 4394
Coptic calendar	1473–1474
Discordian calendar	2923
Ethiopian calendar	1749–1750
Hebrew calendar	5517–5518
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1813–1814
- Shaka Samvat	1678–1679
- Kali Yuga	4857–4858
Holocene calendar	11757
Igbo calendar	757–758
Iranian calendar	1135–1136
Islamic calendar	1170–1171
Japanese calendar	Hōreki 7 (宝暦７年)
Javanese calendar	1682–1683
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4090
Minguo calendar	155 before ROC 民前155年
Nanakshahi calendar	289
Thai solar calendar	2299–2300
Tibetan calendar	མེ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Rat) 1883 or 1502 or 730     — to — མེ་མོ་གླང་ལོ་ (female Fire-Ox) 1884 or 1503 or 731

Events

• January 2 – The United Kingdom captures Calcutta, India.
• March 14 – On board the HMS Monarch, Royal Navy Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for breach of the Articles of War.
• May 6 – Battle of Prague – Frederick the Great defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city.
• June 18 – Battle of Kolin – Frederick is defeated by an Austrian army under Marshal Daun, forcing him to evacuate Bohemia.
• June 23 – Battle of Plassey – 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj-ud-Dawlah at Plassey.
• July 26 – Battle of Hastenbeck – An Anglo-Hanoverian army under the Duke of Cumberland is defeated by the French under Louis d'Estrées and forced out of Hanover.
• July 30 – Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf – A Prussian army under Hans von Lehwald is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal Stepan Apraksin.
• October 16 – Austrian raiders plunder Berlin.
• October 30 – Osman III dies and is succeeded as Ottoman Sultan by Mustafa III.
• November 5 – Battle of Rossbach. Frederick defeats the French-Imperial army under the Duc de Soubise and Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen, forcing the French to withdraw from Saxony.
• November 22 – Battle of Breslau – An Austrian army under Prince Charles of Lorraine defeats the Prussian army of Wilhelm of Brunswick-Bevern and forces the Austrians behind the Oder.
• December 6 – Battle of Leuthen – Frederick defeats Prince Charles's Austrian army.

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