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| 1749 |
| | | Henry Fielding introduces a character of lasting appeal in the lusty but good-hearted Tom Jones | |
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| 1749 |
| | | Shortly before his death (in 1750) J.S. Bach completes his Mass in B Minor, worked on over many years | |
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| c. 1750 |
| | | Naval engagements are now fought in lines of battle, with only the most heavily armed vessels rated as 'ships of the line' | |
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| 1750 |
| | | Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London | |
|  | Strawberry Hill admission ticket
Richmond upon Thames Local Studies Collection
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| 1750-97 |
| | | Horace Walpole forms a 'Committee of Taste' with friends John Chute and Richard Bentley, and creates his 'little Gothic castle' over the next 50 years, giving rise to the style 'Strawberry Hill Gothic'. | |
|  | Walpole and Strawberry Hill, lithograph
Richmond Local Studies
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| 1750 |
| | | A bridge is opened at Westminster | |
|  | Westminster Bridge, by Farington, 1789
Guildhall Library
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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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