Editing 1757 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
[[File:Prussian infantry advance at Leuthen.jpg|thumb|300px|[[December 5]]:  King Frederick of Prussia defeats the Austrian army in the [[Battle of Leuthen]].]]
* [[October 4]] &ndash; Bearing British flags, two French [[privateer]]s sail up the [[Gambia River]] and attempt to capture the British fort on [[Kunta Kinteh Island|James Island]], but their ruse is discovered the next day before they can stage their attack. The two ships are captured by the Royal Navy after retreating <ref>J. M. Gray, ''A History of the Gambia'' (Cambridge University Press, 2015) p227</ref>
* [[October 14]] &ndash; Of the 478 people arrested, and 442 (including 50 women and young boys) convicted, for their roles in the [[Porto]] riot in February, 13 men and one woman are hanged; afterwards, their bodies are then quartered and the severed limbs are publicly displayed on spikes. Another 49 men and 10 women are exiled to Portuguese colonies in Africa and India, and the other convicts are either flogged, imprisoned or pressed into service rowing [[galley]] ships.<ref name=Aguilera/>
* [[October 16]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: Hungarian raiders [[1757 raid on Berlin|plunder Berlin]], [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]].
* [[October 24]] (10 Safar 1171 A.H.) &ndash; [[1757 Hajj caravan raid]]: [[Bedouin]] warriors of the [[Bani Sakher]] confederacy conduct a massive assault against a caravan of thousands of Muslim travelers who are on their way back to [[Damascus]] after the [[Hajj]], the pilgrimage to [[Mecca]]. The attack, made at Hallat Ammar after the group has been resupplied at [[Tabuk, Saudi Arabia|Tabuk]], leads to the annihilation of 20,000 of the pilgrims. Those who are not killed outright die later in the desert from thirst and starvation.<ref name=Peters> F. E. Peters, ''The Hajj: The Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca and the Holy Places'' (Princeton University Press, 1996) pp161-162 </ref> According to one Arabic source, the largest attack takes place on October 24.
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Osman III]] dies, and is succeeded as [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[Sultan]] by [[Mustafa III]].
* [[October 31]] &ndash; News of the [[1757 Hajj caravan raid|massacre of Muslim pilgrims]] first reaches [[Damascus]]; the Ottoman officials who had been in charge of protecting the pilgrimage are executed by beheading.<ref name=Peters/>
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Rossbach]] &ndash; Frederick defeats the French-Imperial army under the Duc de Soubise and [[Prince Joseph of Saxe-Hildburghausen]], forcing the French to withdraw from [[Saxony]].
* [[November 10]] &ndash; [[Abdallah of Morocco|King Abdallah IV]] of [[Morocco]] dies and is succeeded by his son, who takes the throne as King [[Mohammed ben Abdallah|Mohammed III]] and reigns until 1790.
* [[November 22]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Breslau (1757)|Battle of Breslau]] &ndash; An Austrian army under [[Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine]] defeats the Prussian army of Wilhelm of Brunswick-Bevern, and forces the Prussians behind the [[Oder]].
* [[December 5]] &ndash; [[Seven Years' War]]: [[Battle of Leuthen]] &ndash; Frederick defeats Prince Charles's Austrian army, in what is generally considered the Prussian king's greatest tactical victory.
* [[December 6]] &ndash; In Buddhist tradition, [[Jigme Lingpa]] discovers the [[Longchen Nyingthig]] [[terma (religion)|terma]] through a meditative vision, which brings him to [[Boudhanath]]. The Longchen Nyingtig is a popular cycle of teachings in the [[Nyingma]] school of [[Tibetan Buddhism]].
* [[December 14]] &ndash; [[Battle of Khresili]]: King [[Solomon I of Imereti]] defeats the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] army and an allied faction of nobles, in what becomes western [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]].
* [[December 24]] &ndash; The [[Pratt-Yorke opinion]] distinguishes British overseas territories acquired by conquest from those acquired by private treaty: while [[the Crown]] of Great Britain enjoys sovereignty over both, only the property of the former is vested in the Crown.
* [[December 30]] &ndash; [[James Abercrombie (British Army general)|James Abercrombie]] replaces [[James Mure-Campbell, 5th Earl of Loudoun]] as supreme commander in the [[British America]]n colonies.<ref>Troy Bickham, ''Savages Within the Empire: Representations of American Indians in Eighteenth-Century Britain'' (Clarendon Press, 2005) p124</ref>  Abercrombie is replaced himself, after failing to take the fort at [[Ticonderoga, New York|Ticonderoga]].