Important Historical Events of the year 1757, Year 1757 in History

List of 1757 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1757

What happened in the year 1757?

Date	Event
January 5, 1757	Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, who becomes the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering (the traditional form of capital punishment used for regicides).
January 16, 1757	Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
March 14, 1757	Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
May 6, 1757	Battle of Prague: A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War.
May 6, 1757	The end of Konbaung–Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757).
May 6, 1757	English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums.
June 18, 1757	Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War.
June 23, 1757	Battle of Plassey: Three thousand British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000-strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
August 30, 1757	Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf: Russian force under Field Marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin beats a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War.
November 5, 1757	Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
December 5, 1757	Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
December 31, 1757	Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.