1756

Events 
 Mme Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont revises Beauty and the Beast.

 Births 
 January 27 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791)
 February 6 – Aaron Burr, American politician, 3rd Vice President of the United States (d. 1836)
 March 3 – William Godwin, English journalist (d. 1836)
 May – John Macadam, Scottish engineer, invented Tarmac for the roads (d. 1836)

 Deaths