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| 1751 |
| | | Robert Clive prevails over the French after holding out during the seven-week siege of Arcot in southern India | |
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| 1751 |
| | | Giovanni Battista Tiepolo begins a series of frescoes to decorate the prince bishop's residence in Würzburg | |
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| 1751 |
| | | A great French undertaking by Denis Diderot, his 28-volume Encyclopédie, begins publication | |
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| 1751 |
| | | The Swedish chemist Alex Cronstedt identifies an impurity in copper ore as a separate metallic element, which he names nickel | |
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| 1751 |
| | | By the time of his death the prolific output of Domenico Scarlatti includes 555 sonatas, all but a few for his own instrument, the harpsichord | |
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| 1751 |
| | | English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard | |
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| 1751 |
| | | Richard Owen Cambridge, after whom the house is named, buys Cambridge Park. | |
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| 1751 |
| | | French painter Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin returns to the subject matter that first took his interest, still life | |
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| 1751 |
| | | English gardener Lancelot Brown sets up in business as a freelance 'improver of grounds', and soon acquires the nickname Capablity Brown | |
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| 1752 |
| | | Britain is one of the last nations to adjust to the more accurate Gregorian calendar, causing a suspicious public to fear they have been robbed of eleven days | |
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