What is 1757?
{{Year nav|1757}} {{Year in various calendars|1757}} {{Year article header|1757}} == Events == * [[January 2]] – The [[United Kingdom]] captures [[Calcutta]], India. * [[March 14]] – On board the [[HMS Monarch|HMS ''Monarch'']], [[Royal Navy]] Admiral [[John Byng]] is executed by [[firing squad]] for breach of the [[Articles of War]]. * [[May 6]] – [[Battle of Prague]] – [[Frederick the Great]] defeats an Austrian army and begins to besiege the city. * [[June 18]] – [[Battle of Kolin]] – Frederick is defeated by an Austrian army under [[Leopold von Daun|Marshal Daun]], forcing him to evacuate Bohemia. * [[June 23]] – [[Battle of Plassey]] – 3000 [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] troops under [[Robert Clive]] defeat a 50,000 strong [[India]]n army under [[Siraj-ud-Dawlah]] at [[Plassey]]. * [[July 26]] – [[Battle of Hastenbeck]] – An Anglo-Hanoverian army under the [[Prince William, Duke of Cumberland|Duke of Cumberland]] is defeated by the French under [[Louis d'Estrées]] and forced out of Hanover. * [[July 30]] – [[Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf]] – A Prussian army under [[Hans von Lehwald]] is defeated by the Russian army of Marshal [[Stepan Apraksin]]. * [[October 16]] – Austrian raiders plunder [[Berlin]]. * [[October 30]] – [[Osman III]] dies and is succeeded as [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Sultan]] by [[Mustafa III]]. * [[November 5]] – [[Battle of Rossbach]]. Frederick defeats the French-Imperial army under the [[Charles, duc de Soubise|Duc de Soubise]] and [[Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen]], forcing the French to withdraw from Saxony. * [[November 22]] – [[Battle of Breslau (1757)|Battle of Breslau]] – An Austrian army under [[Prince Charles of Lorraine]] defeats the Prussian army of [[Wilhelm of Brunswick-Bevern]] and forces the Austrians behind the [[Oder River|Oder]]. * [[December 6]] – [[Battle of Leuthen]] – Frederick defeats Prince Charles's Austrian army. == Deaths == [[Category:1757| ]]