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Events in 1757 2
1757Battle of PlasseyEast India Company gains control of BengalAt Plassey in 1757, Robert Clive's East India Company forces defeated the Nawab of Bengal — partly through bribery and betrayal — winning control of the richest province in India. The victory marked the beginning of British political dominance over the subcontinent.
1757 – 1827William BlakeRomanticism · EnglandWilliam Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker whose visionary, spiritually intense work was largely unrecognised in his lifetime but is now considered foundational to Romanticism.