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| 1755 |
| | | Samuel Johnson publishes his magisterial Dictionary of the English Language | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Admiral John Byng is shot on the deck of a ship in Portsmouth harbour for 'neglect of duty' in failing to relieve Minorca | |
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| 1757 |
| | | Robert Adam returns to Britain after two years in Rome with a repertoire of classical themes which he mingles to form a new British neoclassicism | |
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| 1757 |
| | | William Pitt the Elder becomes secretary of state and transforms the British war effort against France in America | |
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| 1757 |
| | | English painter Joseph Wright sets up a studio in his home town, Derby | |
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| c. 1758 |
| | | Joshua Reynolds, by now the most fashionable portrait painter in London, copes with as many as 150 sitters in a year | |
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| 1758 |
| | | A comet returns exactly at the time predicted by English astronomer Edmond Halley, and is subsequently known by his name | |
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| 1758 |
| | | James Woodforde, an English country parson with a love of food and wine, begins a detailed diary of everyday life | |
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| 1758 |
| | | Liverpool-born artist George Stubbs sets up in London as a painter, above all, of people and horses | |
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| c. 1759 |
| | | Portrait-painter Thomas Gainsborough moves from Suffolk to set up a studio in fashionable Bath | |
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