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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s Years: 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 - 1761 - 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766 Events January 16 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French Births May 3 -*August von Kotzebue - German Dramatist. November 4 - Bertrand Andrieu - French engraver of medals. December 1 - Marie Tussaud[?] - French Waxwork modeller Christian Hendrik Persoon - Mycologist. Henry Shrapnel - British Army officer and inventor. Deaths Tokugawa Ieshige[?] - Shogun. April 4 - Theodore Gardelle - Swiss enameller April 7 - Thomas Bayes - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, noted for Bayes' theorem
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s - 1760s - 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
Years: 1756 1757 1758 1759 1760 - 1761 - 1762 1763 1764 1765 1766
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