Editing 1750 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 5]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Madrid (5 October 1750)|Treaty of Madrid]]: [[Spain]] and [[Great Britain]] sign a treaty temporarily eliminating their hostility over their colonies in North and South America.<ref>Max Savelle, ''Empires to Nations: Expansion in America, 1713-1824'' (University of Minnesota Press, 1974) p. 131.</ref> In addition to both sides dropping their claims for damages against each other, Spain agrees to pay the [[South Sea Company]] £100,000 for damage claims.  
* [[October 14]] &ndash; The [[Louvre Museum]] is created in [[Paris]] four years after art critic Lafond de Saint-Yenne calls on the King to allow the display of the royal art collection to the general public. [[Abel-François Poisson]], the Marquis de Marigny, arranges for the display of 110 of the Crown's paintings at the [[Palais du Luxembourg]].<ref>"The First Transfer at the Louvre in 1750: Andrea del Sarto's ''La Charite''", by Gilberte Emile-Male, in ''Issues in the Conservation of Paintings'' (Getty Publications, 2004) p. 278.</ref>
* [[November 11]] &ndash; A [[Lhasa riot of 1750|riot breaks out]] in [[Lhasa (prefecture-level city)|Lhasa]] after the murder of the regent of [[Tibet]].
* [[November 18]] &ndash; [[Westminster Bridge]] is officially opened in [[London]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The London Encyclopaedia|first=Ben|last=Weinreb|author2=Hibbert, Christopher|publisher=Macmillan|year=1995|isbn=0-333-57688-8|page=976}}</ref>
* [[December 3]] &ndash; What is described later as "The first documented presentation of a [[musical theatre|musical]] in New York"<ref>John Kenrick, ''Musical Theatre: A History'' (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017) p. 36.</ref> takes place one block east of [[Broadway (Manhattan)|Broadway]], at the [[Nassau Street (Manhattan)|Nassau Street]] Theatre, when a resident company of actors stages ''[[The Beggar's Opera]]''. 
* [[December 25]] &ndash; [[Prussia]] and [[Russia]] break off diplomatic relations after the Russians refuse to stop assisting the [[Electorate of Saxony]].<ref>"In a Porcelain Mirror: Reflections of Russia from Peter I to Empress Elizabeth", by Lydia Liackhova, in ''Fragile Diplomacy: Moisson Porcelain for European courts ca. 1710-63'' (Yale University Press, 2007) p. 74.</ref>  Five years later, the two Empires fight the [[Seven Years' War]].
* [[December 29]] &ndash; Two physicians in [[Jamaica]], Dr. John Williams and Dr. Parker Bennet, fight a duel "with swords and pistols" after having had an argument the day before about the treatment of [[bilious fever]].  Both are mortally wounded during the fight.<ref>Fielding H. Garrison, ''An Introduction to the History of Medicine: With Medical Chronology, Suggestions for Study and Bibliographic Data'' (W.B. Saunders Company, 1913) p. 394.</ref>