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Year '''1750''' ('''[[Roman numerals|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]]
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"Calendar for year 1750 (Russia)" (full Julian calendar),
Steffen Thorsen, Time and Date AS, 2007, webpage:
[http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/index.html?year=1750&country=20 Julian1750].
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of the 11-day slower [[Julian calendar]]).
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== Events of 1750 ==
===January - June===
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* 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 - A second fire devastates Istanbul (see January). A third fire later in the year will destroys a further 10,000 homes.
* [[May]] - Riots break out in Paris, fueled by rumors of police abducting children.
===July - December===
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*July - [[Joseph I of Portugal|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.
*[[July 9]] - Traveller [[Jonas Hanway]] leaves St Petersburg to return home via Germany and the Netherlands. Later the same year, Hanway reputedly becomes the first Englishman to use an [[umbrella]] (a French fashion).
* [[August 23]] - A small earthquake hits [[Spalding, Lincolnshire]], England.
* [[September 30]] - A small earthquake hits [[Northampton]], England.
* [[November 16]] - [[Westminster Bridge]] is officially opened.
[[Image:Parasol wuhan.jpg|thumb|150px|right| [[London]]: [[Umbrella]] used]]
===Undated===
* "[[Hannah Snell|James Gray]]" reveals her sex to her [[Royal Marines]] compatriots.
*[[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.
*King of [[Dahomey]] has income of 250,000 pounds from overseas export of slaves.
*[[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]] produces c. 2% of the entire world's output of industrial goods.
* Galley slavery is abolished in Europe.<ref name="Clear">{{cite book |author=Clear, Todd R., Cole, George F., Resig, Michael D.|year=2006 |title=American Corrections Seventh Edition |publisher=Thompson}}</ref>
* [[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
**[[Manchester]]: 20,000.
==Births==
{{Year in other calendars|japanese=[[Kanen|Kan'en]] 2 – 3}}
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* [[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]], [[Prussia]]n 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)
==Deaths==
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* [[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]])
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