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Year 1751 (MDCCLI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events

• March 25 – For the last time, New Year's Day is legally on March 25 in England and Wales.
• March 25 – Upon his death, Frederick I of Sweden is succeeded as king by Adolf Frederick.
• April 20 – The future King George III of the United Kingdom succeeds his father as heir-apparent to the British throne (later that year, he's named Prince of Wales). His mother Augusta of Saxe-Gotha becomes Dowager Princess of Wales.
• May 11 – The Pennsylvania legislature grants a charter to Benjamin Franklin and Dr. Thomas Bond for the establishment in Philadelphia of the first hospital in the Colonies.
• July 31 – Fire destroys 1,000 houses in Stockholm.
• August 13 – The Academy and College of Philadelphia, predecessor to the private University of Pennsylvania, opens its doors, with Benjamin Franklin as president.
• October 27 – The Hōreki period begins in Japan.

Undated

• Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow.
• The Encyclopédie is first published.
• Glasgow Medical School is founded.
• 1751–1775 – 13% of appointees to audiencias are Creoles.

Births

• January 12 – Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies (d. 1825)
• February 20 – Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
• March 16 – James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
• May 24 – Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, King of Sardinia (d. 1819)
• July 11 – Caroline Matilda of Wales (d. 1775)
• September 1 – Emanuel Schikaneder, German dramatist, actor, and singer. (d. 1812)
• October 30 – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish dramatist and politician (d. 1816)
• date unknown – Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (d. 1806)

See also Category: 1751 births.

Deaths

• January 17 – Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (b. 1671)
• January 20 – John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol, English politician (b. 1665)
• January 25 – Paul Dudley, Attorney-General of Massachusetts (b. 1675)
• February 5 – Henri François d'Aguesseau, Chancellor of France (b. 1668)
• March 25 – King Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
• March 29 – Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist (b. c. 1668)
• March 31 – Frederick, Prince of Wales (b. 1707)
• April 19 – Peter Lacy, Irish-born Russian Field marshal (b. 1678)
• August 30 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist (b. 1661)
• October 22 – Prince William IV of Orange (b. 1711)
• October 26 – Philip Doddridge, English religious leader (b. 1702)
• December 12 – Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (b. 1678)
• December 16 – Leopold II of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian general (b. 1700)
• December 19 – Louise of Great Britain, queen of Frederick V of Denmark (b. 1724)

See also Category: 1751 deaths.

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