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The Qianlong Emperor sends armies into Tibet after the Lhasa riot of 1750 and firmly establishes the Dalai Lama as the ruler of Tibet, with a Qing resident and garrison to preserve Qing presence.

The leader of the rebellion, Lobsang Trashi, and fourteen other rebels are executed.

Further afield, military campaigns against Nepalese and Gurkhas force these peoples to submit and send tribute.

A type of distilled liquor designated by the Russian word vodka had come to Russia in the late fourteenth century.

In 1386, the Genoese ambassadors had brought the first aqua vitae ("the water of life") to Moscow and presented it to Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy.

The liquid obtained by distillation of grape must was thought to be a concentrate and a "spirit" of wine (spiritus vini in Latin), from where came the name of this substance in many European languages (like English spirit, or Russian спирт, spirt).

According to a legend, around 1430, a monk named Isidore from Chudov Monastery inside the Moscow Kremlin made a recipe of the first Russian vodka.

Having a special knowledge and distillation devices, he became the creator of a new, higher quality type of alcoholic beverage.

This "bread wine", as it was initially known, was for a long time produced exclusively in the Grand Duchy of Moscow and in no other principality of Rus' (this situation persisted until the era of industrial production).

Thus, this beverage was closely associated with Moscow.

Until the mid-eighteenth century, the drink had remained relatively low in alcohol content, not exceeding 40% ABV.

Multiple terms for the drink are recorded, sometimes reflecting different levels of quality, alcohol concentration, filtering, and the number of distillations; most commonly, it is referred to as "burning wine", "bread wine", or even in some locations simply "wine".

In some locations, grape wine may have been so expensive that it was a drink only for aristocrats.

Burning wine is usually diluted with water to 24% ABV or less before drinking.

It is mostly sold in taverns and is quite expensive.

At the same time, the word vodka is already in use, but it describei herbal tinctures (similar to absinthe), containing up to 75% ABV, and made for medicinal purposes.

The first written usage of the word vodka in an official Russian document in its modern meaning is dated by the decree of Empress Elizabeth of June 8, 1751, which regulats the ownership of vodka distilleries.

Philosophia Botanica ("Botanical Philosophy", ed. 1, Stockholm & Amsterdam, 1751) is published by the Swedish naturalist and physician Carl Linnaeus , who greatly influences the development of botanical taxonomy and systematics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

It is "the first textbook of descriptive systematic botany and botanical Latin".

It also contains Linnaeus's first published description of his binomial nomenclature.

Philosophia Botanica represents a maturing of Linnaeus's thinking on botany and its theoretical foundations, being an elaboration of ideas first published in his Fundamenta Botanica (1736) and Critica Botanica (1737), and set out in a similar way as a series of stark and uncompromising aphorisms.

The book also establishes a basic botanical terminology.

Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, a Swedish chemist and mineralogist, in 1751 isolates an impure sample of nickel in 1751 from a copper-colored ore containing niccolite (nickel arsenide) by reduction of the green efflorescence that forms on this mineral in moist air.

The Maria Theresa thaler (MTT) is a silver bullion coin that has been used in world trade continuously since they were first minted in 1741, at that time using the then-standard Reichsthaler value of nine thalers to the Vienna mark.

The thaler had been debased in 1750 to ten thalers to the Vienna Mark (a weight approximating half a pound of fine silver).

The new standard is effectively adopted across the German-speaking world when that standard is accepted formally in the Bavarian monetary convention the following year.

It is owing to the date of the Bavarian Monetary convention that many writers erroneously state that the Maria Theresa Thaler was first struck in 1751.

Named after Empress Maria Theresa, who rules Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia from 1740, the word thaler gives rise to daalder and daler, which will become dollar in English.

The Gregorian calendar, as of the start of 1751, is eleven days ahead of the Julian calendar, which will remain in localized use until 1923.

In Britain and its colonies, 1751 has only 282 days due to the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750 (c.23) (also known as Chesterfield's Act after Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield).

An Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, it reforms the calendar of England and British Dominions so that the new legal year begins on 1 January rather than 25 March (Lady Day); and it adopts the Gregorian calendar, as already used in most of western Europe.

Robert Clive leads British troops to capture Arcot in 1751, his success leading to additional victories for the British and their Nizam and Arcot allies.

Cumberland's unpopularity, which had steadily increased since Culloden, has interfered greatly with his success in politics, and when the death of the Prince of Wales brings the latter's son, a minor, next in succession to the throne, the Duke is not able to secure for himself the contingent regency.

As a compromise, the regency is vested in the Dowager Princess of Wales, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, who considers him an enemy, but her powers are curtailed and she is to be advised by a committee of twelve men, headed by Cumberland.

There are frequent references to the Prince of Wales as a patron of cricket and as an occasional player in the years following 1733.

Frederick's death at Cliveden House on March 20, 1751, closely follows that of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond, the game's greatest financial patron at this time.

Accordingly, the number of top-class matches will decline for several years, although economic difficulties and priorities from the wars of the period will certainly inhibit many potential investors.

Frederick's death at the age of forty-four had initially been attributed to a burst lung abscess caused by a blow from a cricket or a real tennis ball, but it is today thought to have been from a pulmonary embolism.

King George II, Frederick's father, disliked the Prince of Wale and had taken little interest in his grandchildren. George, becoming heir apparent to the throne, inheritsone of his father's titles and becomes the Duke of Edinburgh.

Now more interested in his grandson, three weeks later the King creates George Prince of Wales (the title is not automatically acquired).

...Cobequid remains without a fort.

The British had quickly began to build other settlements.

Within eighteen months of establishing Halifax, the British have also taken firm control of the Nova Scotia peninsula by building fortifications in all the major Acadian communities: present-day Windsor (Fort Edward); ...