The year 1757 in architecture involved some significant events. Frederiks Hospital, Copenhagen, is opened. Middlesex Hospital, London, is opened. Vorontsov...

Hindu temple architecture and Indo-Islamic architecture, especially Rajput architecture, Mughal architecture, South Indian architecture, and Indo-Saracenic...

1622 – Alix Le Clerc, French Canoness Regular and foundress (born 1576) 1757 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French author, poet, and playwright (born...

English-American rebel leader (died 1676) 1699 – Osman III, Ottoman sultan (died 1757) 1713 – Marie Dumesnil, French actress (died 1803) 1727 – James Wolfe, English...

Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers. 1757 – Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for...

soldier and politician, 1st United States Postmaster General (died 1813) 1757 – Joseph Forlenze, Italian ophthalmologist and surgeon (died 1833) 1763 –...

Scottish throne (died 1766) 1713 – Princess Caroline of Great Britain (died 1757) 1716 – Carl Gustaf Ekeberg, Swedish physician and explorer (died 1784) 1753...

and politician (born 1716) 1816 – Pierre Augereau, French general (born 1757) 1818 – Egwale Seyon, Ethiopian emperor 1841 – Konstantinos Nikolopoulos...

cartographer (died 1818) 1757 – Ercole Consalvi, Italian cardinal (died 1824) 1776 – Thomas Rickman, English architect and architectural antiquary (died 1841)...

from the British Empire, as the Dominion of India. 190 years British rule (1757–1947) in India comes to an end. Jawaharlal Nehru takes office as the first...

Henri Gautier (1676–1757) was a French aristocrat, landowner and public official. Henri Gautier was born in 1676 in Aix-en-Provence. He was a clerk to...

The Pashalik of Scutari (1757–1831), also known as the Bushati Pashalik, was an Albanian pashalik within the Ottoman Empire that was ruled by the Bushati...

bə-ROK, US: /bəˈroʊk/ bə-ROHK, French: [baʁɔk]) is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished...

Maurepas (d. 1781) August 4 Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (d. 1757) Brownlow Cecil, 8th Earl of Exeter, England (d. 1754) August 9 – Karl Wilhelm...

as a Serlian or Palladian window or Serlian motif) is a distinctive architectural element that consists of a central arched window flanked by two smaller...

de Paulmy d'Argenson, French statesman (d. 1757) October 24 – Humphrey Sydenham, British politician (d. 1757) October 26 Sir George Oxenden, 5th Baronet...

Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the late 16th century and gradually spread across Europe. It...

Williams, Frontier Forts Under Fire: The Attacks on Fort William Henry (1757) and Fort Phil Kearny (1866) (McFarland, 2017) p101 William Hartston, The...

laid in 1749 and it took eight years to build. It was completed on 6 March 1757, when it was dedicated for public worship by Rev. Matthias Wirmelskircher...

demarcated the Douro region—Europe's first protected wine region. This led to the 1757 Revolta dos Borrachos ("revolt of the drunkards"), during which company buildings...

Neoclassicism is a movement in architecture, design and the arts which emerged in France in the 1740s and became dominant in France between about 1760...

November 6 – Colley Cibber, English actor-manager and poet laureate (d. 1757) November 15 (bapt.) – Anne Bracegirdle, English actress (d. 1748) January...

50 Franz Ignaz Beck – 6 Symphonies, Op. 3 Michel Corrette – 6 Symphonies en Quatuor sur les Noëls Francesco Geminiani – The Second Collection of Pieces...

of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (5 ed.). Penguin. p. 15. ISBN 0-14-051323-X. Curl, James Stevens (1999). Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and...

general (d. 1769) Christoph Sauer, German-American printer and publisher (d. 1757) February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Russian mathematician (d. 1726) February...

attributed to Jommelli) Jean-Marie Leclair – [3] Ouvertures et [3] sonates en trio, Op. 13 (Paris). Ouverture No. 3 arranged from Ouverture to Scylla et...

1751) June 12 – Pierre Augereau, Marshal of France, duc de Castiglione (b. 1757) July 5 – Dorothea Jordan, Irish-born actress, mistress of King William IV...

Sonatas), Op. 2 (Paris: Le Clerc, Mme Boivin) Armand-Louis Couperin – Sonates en pièces de clavecin avec accompagnement de violon ad libitum, Op. 2 (Paris)...

tactician (d. 1780) March 3 William Lacon Childe, English politician (d. 1757) Charles-Joseph Natoire, French painter in the Rococo manner (d. 1777) March...

Machault was a 32-gun ship of the French Navy, launched in 1757 at Bayonne, France. She was built as a privateer and owned by Joseph Cadet, a general merchant...