27 March:SAMUEL STEVENS = English composer and organist = [died:1837]
22 April:ALESSANDRO ROLLA = Italian violinist, composer and music teacher = [died: 1841]
18 June:IGNAZ PLEYEL = Austrian-born French composer and piano-maker = [died: 1831]
Timeline of Events
2 January: Robert Clive captures Calcutta in India.
14 March: Seven Years' War: Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War.
6 April: William Pitt the Elder resigns from the government after Prince William, Duke of Cumberland refuses to command the British forces in Germany in the Seven Years' War.
April–July: Caretaker Ministry takes power led by William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire following the resignation of Pitt.
6 May: Poet Christopher Smart is confined to St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London.
June: Pitt recalled to government in a coalition with Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
23 June: Battle of Plassey: 3000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj ud-Daulah at Plassey.
2 July: The Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne forms a new government.
26 July: Seven Years' War: Battle of Hastenbeck: An Anglo-Hanoverian army under the Duke of Cumberland is defeated by the French under Louis d'Estrées and forced out of Hanover.
3-9 August: French and Indian War: At the Battle of Fort William Henry a French army under Louis-Joseph de Montcalm forces the British to surrender Fort William Henry. The French army's Indian allies slaughter the survivors, not understanding what the terms of the surrender were.
24 December: The Pratt-Yorke opinion distinguishes overseas territories acquired by conquest from those acquired by private treaty. While the Crown of Great Britain enjoyed sovereignty over both, only the property of the former was vested in the Crown.
Undated:
Matthew Hutton enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.
Baskerville typeface designed by John Baskerville in Birmingham.
Classical Music
JOHANN FRIEDRICH FASCH
Serenata Fwv B: 4 \ Beglückter Tag (written for the birthday of Catherine the Great)
LEOPOLD MOZART
Concerto for Trombone in G major
Opera
FLORIAN LEOPOLD GASSMANN
Merope
PIETRO ALESSANDRO GUGLIELMI
Lo solachianello imbroglione
NICCOLÒ JOMMELLI
Temistocle
GIUSEPPE SCARLATTI
La clemenza di Tito
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Last edited: 27th May 2023