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Events
March 17 - St. Patrick's Day is celebrated in New York City for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).
May 15 - Seven Years' War: The war begins when England declares war on France.
August 29 - Frederick the Great attacks Saxony
October 1 - Seven Years' War: Prussia and Austrian Empire fought in the Battle of Lobositz.
Frederick II of Prussia forces his country's peasants to grow the unpopular and obscure potato
Ongoing events
French and Indian War (1754-1763)
Births
January 27 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer
February 6 - Aaron Burr, Vice President of the United States (died 1836)
March 3 - William Godwin, English political and miscellaneous writer (died 1836)
May 27 - Maximilian I of Bavaria
June 6 - John Trumbull, painter
June 20 - Joseph Martin Kraus, German-Swedish composer (died 1792)
August 1 - Pierre Louis Prieur, French politician (died 1827)
September 7 - Willem Bilderdijk, author (died 1831)
November 3 - Pierre Laromiguière, French philosopher (died 1837)
Abdullah bin Sabah, second ruler of Kuwait's royal al-Sabah dynasty (died 1814)
Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm, Swedish statesman (died 1813)
Deaths
April 18 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (born 1677)
July 24 - George Vertue, English engraver and antiquary (born 1684)
Bernard Accama, Dutch painter
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