(1) Colonists in the 1750s couldn't have imagined that 40 years later, they would be living in a nation, independent of empire.

(2) Many years later, in the 1750s, their American Indian descendants greeted French and British traders.

(3) Some of his finest works were in the 1750s and 1760s, when the Baroque style was be replaced by simpler styles but popular at the time and afterwards. Sentencedict.com

(4) In the late 1750s, the Qing Dynasty emperor had a water-fountain clock built at the Old Summer Palace in Beijing.

(5) Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s.

(6) Breton Island; French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns.

(7) French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descendants are know as Cajuns.

(8) Resistance from the French and the Indians slowed the movement westward, yet by the 1750s northern American colonists had occupied most of New England.

(9) Scottish chemist Joseph Black discovered and isolated this potent greenhouse gas in the 1750s.

(10) French settlers who called the area Acadia were exiled to Louisiana by the British in the 1750s and their descends are know as Cajuns.

(11) Washington began his pattern of resignations from public office when still a youthful commander of the Virginia militia in the early 1750s.

(12) This is the idea of Carl Linneas who in the 1750s came up with the classification system we still use today for plants and animals.