1751

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Year '1751' ('MDCCLI') was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1751

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1751

January - June

★ March 25 - For the last time, New Year's Day is legally on March 25 in England and Wales.

★ March 25 - Upon his death, Frederick I of Sweden is succeeded as king by Adolf Frederick.

★ April 20 - The future King George III of the United Kingdom succeeds his father as Prince of Wales. His mother Augusta of Saxe-Gotha becomes Dowager Princess of Wales.

★ May 11 - The Pennsylvania legislature grants a charter to Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond for the establishment in Philadelphia of the first hospital in the Colonies.

July - December

★ October 27 - Beginning of Hōreki period in Japan.

Undated

★ Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow.

★ First publication of Encyclopédie.

★ The Academy and College of Philadelphia, the predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, is founded.

★ Fire destroys 1,000 houses in Stockholm.

★ Glasgow Medical School is founded.

Births

★ January 12 - Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (died 1825)

★ February 20 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (died 1826)

★ March 16 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States (died 1836)

★ May 2 - John André, English soldier (died 1780)

★ May 24 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, King of Sardinia (died 1819)

★ July 11 - Caroline Matilda of Wales (died 1775)

★ October 30 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish dramatist and politician (died 1816)

★ ''date unknown'' - Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (died 1806)
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Deaths

★ January 17 - Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (born 1671)

★ January 20 - John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (born 1665)

★ January 25 - Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (born 1675)

★ February 9 - Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (born 1668)

★ March 25 - King Frederick I of Sweden (born 1676)

★ March 29 - Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist (born c.1668)

★ March 31 - Frederick, Prince of Wales (born 1707)

★ April 19 - Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (born 1678)

★ August 30 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist (born 1661)

★ October 22 - Prince William IV of Orange (born 1711)

★ October 26 - Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (born 1702)

★ December 12 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (born 1678)

★ December 16 - Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (born 1700)

★ December 19 - Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (born 1724)
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