1750 35809 225568698 2008-07-14T10:25:45Z VolkovBot 3035831 robot Adding: [[vo:1750]] {{year nav|{{PAGENAME}}}} {{C18YearInTopicX}} <!-- [[Image: |thumb|140px|right| .]] --> 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]] <ref> "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]. </ref> of the 11-day slower [[Julian calendar]]). <!-- 11-day span=Mon-Fri,Tue-Sat,Wed-Sun,Thu-Mon,Fr-Tu,Sa-We,Sun-Thu --> == Events of 1750 == ===January - June=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. Do not link months. --> * 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=== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> *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 &ndash; 3}} <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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== <!-- Link all dates, even if repeated, for date-format preferences. --> * [[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. 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