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1751| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1743–1760 | North America [town planning] | Paving city streets in the North American colonies becomes common, making the colonial streets drier and smoother than those in Britain. | | 1750–1777 | Portugal [law and government] | Sebastião José de Carvalho e Mello, the Marquis of Pombal, virtual ruler of Portugal during the reign of José I, carries out a series of extensive reforms aimed at breaking the power of the nobility and revitalizing Portugal's finances, industry, agriculture, and education system. | | 1751 | England [literature and language] | The English poet Thomas Gray publishes An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, his best-known poem. | | 1751 | Scotland [literature and language] | The Scottish writer Tobias George Smollett publishes The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. | | 1751 | Scotland [thought and scholarship] | Scottish philosopher David Hume publishes Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, a reworking of part of his Treatise of Human Nature. A revised version appears in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, which is published in 1758. He also publishes Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, another reworking of part of the Treatise of Human Nature. | | 5 April 1751 | Sweden [political events] | King Frederick II of Sweden dies and is succeeded by Adolphus Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, his brother-in-law. | | 31 August 1751 | UK, India, Mogul Empire, France [wars] | The English soldier and colonial administrator Robert Clive takes the Indian town of Arcot, capital of the Carnatic, defeating the territorial ambitions (on behalf of France) of the French governor general Joseph, Marquis de Dupleix. | | 4 November 1751 | Ireland, UK [births and deaths] | Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish-born British playwright, orator, and Whig politician, baptized in Dublin, Ireland (–1816). |
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‘Coronation’ Mass
Acante et Céphise
Agricola, Johann Friedrich
Ahmad Shah Durrani
André, John
Bache, Theophylact
Bampton, John
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Boscawen, Edward
Campagnoli, Bartolomeo
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Du Mage, Pierre
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Encyclopédie
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| If you ever read this tale, you will likely ask yourself more questions than I should care to answer: as for instance how the Appin murder has come to fall in the year 1751, how the Torran rocks have crept so near to Earraid, or why the printed trial is silent as to all that touches David Balfour. , was, at the time of the great shock of the 20th, violently shaken, so that the trees beat against each other, and a volcano burst forth under water close to the shore: these facts are remarkable because this island, during the earthquake of 1751, was then also affected more violently than other places at an equal distance from Concepcion, and this seems to show some subterranean connection between these two points. |