1757

Events in 1757 4

• 1757 Battle of Plassey East India Company gains control of Bengal At Plassey in 1757, Robert Clive's East India Company forces defeated the Nawab of Bengal — partly through bribery and betrayal — winning control of the richest province in India. The victory marked the beginning of British political dominance over the subcontinent.
• 1757 – 1836 Charles X of France (1757-1836) Died 6 November 1836, aged 79 Former King of France whose reactionary policies provoked the July Revolution of 1830, forcing his abdication. He died in exile in Gorizia in the Austrian Empire.
• 1757 – 1834 Marquis de Lafayette (1757-1834) Died 20 May 1834, aged 76 Lafayette was a French aristocrat who fought as a general in the American Revolutionary War and later became a leading figure in the French Revolution. He helped draft an early version of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and repeatedly returned to public life during France's political upheavals. He died in Paris and was buried under soil brought from Bunker Hill.
• 1757 – 1827 William Blake Romanticism · England William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker whose visionary, spiritually intense work was largely unrecognised in his lifetime but is now considered foundational to Romanticism.