WHAT HAPPENED IN 1757.
Look what happened the 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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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)

Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach. (5. November 1757)

Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen – Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine. (5. December 1757)

Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia (31. December 1757)