WHAT ALL HAPPENED APRIL TO AUGUST 1757
Find out what all happened April to August 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)

Battle of Plassey – 3,000 British troops under Robert Clive defeat a 50,000 strong Indian army under Siraj Ud Daulah at Plassey. (23. June 1757)

Battle of Kolín between Prussian forces under Frederick the Great and an Austrian army under the command of Field Marshal Count Leopold Joseph von Daun in the Seven Years' War. (18. June 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)