1751

This article is about the year 1751.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1720s  1730s  1740s  – 1750s –  1760s  1770s  1780s
Years:	1748 1749 1750 – 1751 – 1752 1753 1754

1751 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1751 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1751 MDCCLI
Ab urbe condita	2504
Armenian calendar	1200 ԹՎ ՌՄ
Assyrian calendar	6501
Bengali calendar	1158
Berber calendar	2701
British Regnal year	24 Geo. 2 – 25 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2295
Burmese calendar	1113
Byzantine calendar	7259–7260
Chinese calendar	庚午年 (Metal Horse) 4447 or 4387     — to — 辛未年 (Metal Goat) 4448 or 4388
Coptic calendar	1467–1468
Discordian calendar	2917
Ethiopian calendar	1743–1744
Hebrew calendar	5511–5512
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1807–1808
- Shaka Samvat	1673–1674
- Kali Yuga	4852–4853
Holocene calendar	11751
Igbo calendar	751–752
Iranian calendar	1129–1130
Islamic calendar	1164–1165
Japanese calendar	Kan'en 4 / Hōreki 1 (宝暦元年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4084
Minguo calendar	161 before ROC 民前161年
Thai solar calendar	2293–2294

1751 (MDCCLI) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1751st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 751st year of the 2nd millennium, the 51st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1750s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1751 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929. In Britain and its colonies, 1751 only had 282 days due to the Calendar Act of 1750.

Events

January–June

• March 25
  • For the last time, New Year's Day is legally on March 25 in England and Wales.
  • Upon his death, Frederick I of Sweden is succeeded as king by Adolf Frederick.
• March 31 – Frederick, Prince of Wales dies in London and is succeeded by his son, the future George III of the United Kingdom, as heir-apparent to the British throne and 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 28 – Kingdom of Kartli defeats a large army of Tabriz Khanate under Erekle II in the Battle of Kirkhbulakh
• July 31 – Fire destroys 1,000 houses in Stockholm.
• August 13 – The Academy and College of Philadelphia, predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, opens its doors, with Benjamin Franklin as president.
• September 13 – Kalvária Banská Štiavnica in the Kingdom of Hungary is completed.
• October 27 – The Hōreki period begins in Japan.
• December 3 – Battle of Arnee in India (Second Carnatic War): A British East India Company-led force under Robert Clive defeats and routs a much larger Franco-Indian army under the command of Raza Sahib at Arni.

Date unknown

• In the University of Glasgow
  • Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic.
  • The Medical School is founded.
• The Encyclopédie is first published.
• Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus publishes his Philosophia Botanica, the first textbook of descriptive systematic botanical taxonomy and the first appearance of his binomial nomenclature.
• Maria Theresa thaler minted; it becomes an international currency.
• 1751–1775 – 13% of appointees to audiencias in the Spanish Empire are Creoles.

Births

• January 12 – Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
• February 20 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (d. 1826)
• March 16 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
• May 24 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, King of Sardinia (d. 1819)
• June 4 – John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1838)
• June 17 – Joshua Humphreys, American naval architect (d. 1838)
• July 11 – Caroline Matilda, British princess, queen consort of Denmark (d. 1775)
• July 30 (midnight) – Maria Anna Mozart ("Nannerl"), Austrian pianist, singer, composer and violinist, sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• September 1 – Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor and singer (d. 1812)
• October 30 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish dramatist and politician (d. 1816)
• date unknown
  • Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis of Puységur, French mesmerist (d. 1825)
  • Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (d. 1806)
  • Elisabetta Caminèr Turra, Venetian writer (d. 1796)

Deaths

• January 17 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
• January 20 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
• January 25 – Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)
• February 5 – Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
• March 25 – King Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
• March 29 – Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist (b. c. 1668)
• March 31 – Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1707)
• April 19 – Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
• June 20 – Adriaan Valckenier, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741 (b. 1695)
• August 30 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist (b. 1661)
• October 22 – Prince William IV of Orange (b. 1711)
• October 26 – Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
• December 12 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
• December 16 – Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)
• December 19 – Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)