You mean 1757. 1758 Swedish biologist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) published in Stockholm the first volume (Animalia) of the 10th edition of Systema Naturae, the starting point of modern zoological nomenclature, introducing binomial nomenclature for animals to his established system of Linnaean ta...

1751 Britain adopts the Gregorian Calendar 1752 Messier 83 (M83), the "Southern Pinwheel Galaxy" and the first to be catalogued outside the "Local Group" of galaxies nearest to Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way, is discovered by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. Lacaille, who observes M83 dur...

1749 One of the greatest poets is born, Goethe.

1744 The Second Silesian war starts.

1742 The first Silesian War ended with the peace of Breslau; Prussia took Silesia from Austria (and here in Diplomacy, we know how bad this is!)

1737 AD An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.3 (one of the strongest in recorded history) occurred off the shore of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tsunamis up to 60 metres high follow in the Pacific Ocean.

1731 John Bevis observes the Crab Nebula for the first time.

1727 Johann Sebastian Bach's St Matthew Passion premieres at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig.

To those who object to history references.
Would it be better to write:

Article 1727 of the Greek Civil Code determines who can be witnesses to the making of a will.

1718 The Treaty of Passarowitz, ending the Austro-Turkish War, is signed.

I remember this. I hadn't realised that so many years had passed.

1716 Ottoman Forces failed to capture Corfu in Greece during the war with Venice.

1714 AD On March 7th, the Treaty of Rastatt was signed between Austria and France, concluding the War of the Spanish Succession between them. On April 11 France signed five separate treaties— with Great Britain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Prussia and Savoy— to end hostilities in the War of the Spani...

1702 AD On October 12, Sir George Rooke fails in his initial attempt to take Cadiz (he will succeed 11 days later) but captures a Spanish treasure fleet and destroys French and Spanish warships.

1697 AD In the battle of Zenta, Prince Eugene of Savoy crushed the Ottoman army of Mustafa II and effectively ended Turkish hopes of recovering lost ground in Hungary.

1694 AD, Vesuvius erupts from 5 to 13 of April, and ash reaches as far as Sicily. In September, an earthquake hit the same area, causing more casualties.

1686 The allied European armies liberated Budapest from the Ottoman army, forcing the Turks out of Hungary in the following years. The demise of the Ottoman Empire starts here.

1666 The Great Fire of London begins as a blaze in a bakery owned by Thomas Farriner on Pudding Lane, near London Bridge. Over a period of four days, the fire destroyed more than 13,000 buildings (including Old St Paul's Cathedral), leaving only six people dead and at least 80,000 destitute and home...

1663 Ottoman empire goes to war with the Holy Roman empire. The Turks take the fortress at Érsekújvár, but with 2,000 men under his command, the Viceroy of Croatia defeats a much larger force of 8,000 Ottoman soldiers in the Battle at Jurjeve Stijene, near the modern town of Otočac. The Croatians lo...

Kepler-1658 b is a gas giant exoplanet that orbits an F-type star. Its mass is 5.88 Jupiter's, it takes 3.8 days to complete one orbit of its star, ... And given that Jupiter is about 1300 times the size of Earth, this planet is really massive. 1659 AD The British first settled on Saint Helena isla...

1654 The Treaty of Westminster ended the First Anglo-Dutch War.

1652 With Cromwell's abolition of the monarchy, the union of England and Scotland under the Stuart dynasty was no more, so the English passed a law commanding the union. In exchange, Scots would have 30 representatives in the English parliament. Yet, as Charles Stuart had escaped, Cromwell's victory...