Hechos Importantes

e * Robert Davidson born in Elkton, Maryland (1750) * Carlisle, Pennsylvania laid out as a county seat (May) | 1751 | * The first American hospital, the Pennsylvania Hospital, founded (May 11). Opened Feb 11, 1752 * Johann Sebastian Bach died (July 28, 1750) * William Cowper born (Nov. 15) * Second Carnatic War, an undeclared war between the British East India Company and theFrench Compagnie des Indes continued * Population of Europe around 140 million |
* | 1752 | * Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar  - Sep.  3 to 13 were omitted  (Sep. 14) * Year also standardized to end Dec 31 (previously Mar. 24), this made 1752 a very short year in UK. |
* | 1753 | * The first steam engine imported into the Colonies, to New Jersey (Sep. 25) *French troops from Canada seized the Ohio Valley * British Museum granted royal charter |
* Columbia chartered as King's College (Jan. 4) * John McKnight born in Carlisle (Oct. 1) * General Braddock's summer defeat brought the hasty construction of Fort Lowther at Carlisle | 1754 | * First bloodshed in that war at Uniontown, Pennsylvania (May 28) * Fighting that developedinto the French & Indian war began, British and Americans combating French, Canadians and Native Americans (May) * First battle in the war at Fort Necessity, Pennsylvania (July 3) |
* First law instruction in the U.S. began at King's College | 1755 | * Alexander Hamilton born (Jan. 11) * John Marshall born (Sep. 24) * Lisbon Earthquake killed 30,000 (Nov. 1) * SamuelJohnson began his Dictionary * Richard Shucksburgh wrote verses to "Yankee Doodle" |
* | 1756 | * Mozart born in Salzburg, Austria (Jan. 27) * Aaron Burr born in Newark, NJ (Feb. 6) * The governor of Pennsylvania offered a bounty of 130 Spanish dollars for "the scalp of every male Indian enemy above the age of twelve years produced as evidence of their being killed." * Britaindeclared war on France (May 16) * "The Black Hole of Calcutta" (June 20) * Frederick the Great led Prussia into Saxony, opening the Seven Years War (Aug. 27) |
* | 1757 | * First public concert held in Philadelphia in the Assembly Rooms on Lodge Alley (Jan. 25) * The British East India Company gained control of Bengal after Robert Clive won the Battle of Plassey (June 23) *Russia joined the treaty of  Versailles which Austria and France had signed the year before; a Russian army attacked East Prussia (Aug.) * The Marquis de Lafayette born (Sep. 6) |
* | 1758 | * The French fortress of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia fell to the American and British attackers after a seven week siege (Summer); Fort Duquesne fell later and the tide in America turned to the British* First state Indian reservation founded in New Jersey (August 29) |
* Thomas Cooper born in London | 1759 | * British Museum opened to public (Jan. 15) * Robert Burns born (Jan. 25) * Halley's Comet returned, as predicted (Mar.) * The Duke of Bridgewater began to build a seven and a half mile long canal between his mines and Manchester, thus lowering the cost of his coal anddemonstrating to the rest of Britain the importance of canals; completed in 1761 * Battle of Quebec ended French Canada (Sep. 13) * Friedrich von Schiller born (Nov. 10) |
* Benjamin Rush graduated from Princeton | 1760 | * Philip Embury, first Methodist clergyman in the United States, arrived in New York (Aug. 11) * First Jewish prayer books were  printed in the Americancolonies (Oct. 23) * Russians occupied and burned Berlin (Oct.) * George III of Great Britain crowned (Oct.) * Josiah Wedgewood opened his pottery business |
* | 1761 | *  First life insurance policy in the colonies was issued, in Philadelphia (May 22) * First knighthood conferred in America, on Jeffery Amherst, Staten Island (Oct. 25) * Empress Elizabeth of Russia died, Peter...