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).

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 heir-apparent to the British throne (later that year, he's named 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

  • July 31 - Fire destroys 1,000 houses in Stockholm.
  • August 13 - The Academy and College of Philadelphia, predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, opened its doors, with Benjamin Franklin as president.
  • 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.
  • Glasgow Medical School is founded.

Births

1751 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1751
MDCCLI
Ab urbe condita 2504
Armenian calendar 1200
ԹՎ ՌՄ
Bahá'í calendar -93 – -92
Berber calendar 2701
Buddhist calendar 2295
Burmese calendar 1113
Chinese calendar 4387/4447-12-4
( 庚午年十二月初四日)
— to —
4388/4448-11-14
( 辛未年十一月十四日)
Coptic calendar 1467 – 1468
Ethiopian calendar 1743 – 1744
Hebrew calendar 5511 – 5512
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1806 – 1807
 - Shaka Samvat 1673 – 1674
 - Kali Yuga 4852 – 4853
Holocene calendar 11751
Iranian calendar 1129 – 1130
Islamic calendar 1164 – 1165
Japanese calendar Kan'en 4 Hōreki 1
(宝暦元年)
Korean calendar 4084
Thai solar calendar 2294
  • 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 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)

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 5 - 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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