WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO MAY 1757
Find out what all happened January to May 1757

Capture of Chandannagar fort by British forces. (23. March 1757)

Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War. (14. March 1757)

English poet Christopher Smart is admitted into St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London, beginning his six-year confinement to mental asylums. (6. May 1757)

Louis XV of France survives an assassination attempt by Robert-François Damiens, the last person to be executed in France by drawing and quartering, the traditional and gruesome form of capital punishment used for regicides. (5. January 1757)

The end of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and the end of Burmese Civil War (1740–1757). (6. May 1757)

Battle of Prague – A Prussian army fights an Austrian army in Prague during the Seven Years' War. (6. May 1757)

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