In the year 1755, Moscow University is founded (Jan 23), France dispatches 3,600 troops to protect its Canadian colonies in Quebec from a British invasion, unaware that Britain’s warships had sailed toward Canada a few days before (May 3), France completes the construction of Fort Duquesne, later renamed Fort Pitt by the British, and three years later giving name to the city of Pittsburgh (May 24), the British clothes manufacturer Wolsey is established - and all these fine people were born:
1755-xxxx Johan Friedrich Hackman* German-Finnish merchant/founder of Hackman & Co. - Bremen (1807/c.52)
1755-0111 Alexander Hamilton* statesman/one of the Founding Fathers of the United States - Charlestown, British Leeward Islands (1804/49) alternative birth year 1757
1755-0128 Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring* German anatomist/ anthropologist/paleontologist - Thorn, Royal Prussia, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland (1830/75)
1755-0218 Nicolas-Didier Boguet* landscape painter - Chantilly, Kingdom of France (1839/84)
1755-0410 Samuel Hahnemann* founder of homeopathy - Meissen, Electorate of Saxony (1843/88)
1755-0416 Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun* portrait painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1842/86)
1755-0605 Nathan Hale* teacher/soldier/ spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War - Coventry, Connecticut Colony, British America (1776/21)
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1755-0620 Maria Erkintytär Mustalampi* (b Erkkilä) mother of Susanna Mikontytär Mustalampi - Jalasjärvi, Sweden-Finland (c.1821/61-70)
1755-0705 Sarah Siddons* actress - Brecon, Wales (1831/75)
1755-0913 Oliver Evans* engineer/inventor/ businessman - Newport, Delaware County (1819/63)
1755-1002 Hannah Adams* author - Medfield, Massachusetts (1831/76)
1755-1101 Henriette von Crayen* German noblewoman/salonist/had love affairs with several famous people - Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1832/76)
1755-1102 Marie Antoinette* Queen Consort of France - Hofburg Palace, Vienna, Austria (1793/37)
1755-1203 Gilbert Stuart* portrait painter - Saunderstown, Rhode Island Colony (1828/72)
1755-1219 Richard Arkwright Jr.* mills owner/banker/investor - Bolton, England (1843/87)
Updated 12.4.2023-2
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