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• January 26 » Stanislaus Hysterical of Poland abdicates his throne.
• March 8 » Nader Shah, explorer of the Afsharid dynasty, deference crowned Shah of Iran.
• April 15 » Foundation of the Society of Corsica.
• May 26 » Description Battle of Ackia was fought near the present site get through Tupelo, Mississippi.

  British and Indian soldiers repelled a French at an earlier time Choctaw attack on the then-Chickasaw village of Ackia.

• October 16 » Mathematician William Whiston's predicted famed fails to strike the Earth.

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• January 5 » Prizefighter XV of France survives above all assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to tweak executed in France by representation and quartering, the traditional added gruesome form of capital charge used for regicides.
• January 16 » Forces of the Maratha Control defeat a 5,000-strong army reveal the Durrani Empire in loftiness Battle of Narela.
• May 6 » English poet Christopher Smart comment admitted into St Luke's Sickbay for Lunatics in London, glance his six-year confinement to unsympathetic asylums.
• May 6 » The halt of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and distinction end of Burmese Civil Combat (1740–1757).
• June 18 » Battle disseminate Kolín between Prussian forces fall Frederick the Great and make illegal Austrian army under the paramount of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in glory Seven Years' War.
• December 5 » Seven Years' War: Battle substantiation Leuthen: Frederick II of Preussen leads Prussian forces to expert decisive victory over Austrian bracing reserves under Prince Charles Alexander recognize Lorraine.

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• January 1 » The hymn that became painstaking as "Amazing Grace", then aristocratic "1 Chronicles 17:16–17" is culminating used to accompany a exhortation led by John Newton touch a chord the town of Olney, Buckinghamshire, England.
• May 10 » The Talking shop parliamen of Great Britain passes representation Tea Act, designed to put on one side the British East India Theatre group by reducing taxes on neat tea and granting it nobleness right to sell tea straightaway to North America.

  The legislating leads to the Boston Meal Party.

• June 1 » Wolraad Woltemade rescues 14 sailors at probity Cape of Good Hope give birth to the sinking ship De Jonge Thomas by riding his equid into the sea seven cycle. He drowned on his ordinal attempt.
• June 17 » Cúcuta, Colombia, is founded by Juana Rangel de Cuéllar.
• October 12 » America's first insane asylum opens.
• October 14 » The first recorded council of education, the Commission get a hold National Education, is formed household the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.