What happened 1751 AD

In 1751 Washington made his only trip abroad when he accompanied Lawrence (older half-brother) to Barbados, hoping the climate would cure his brother's tuberculosis. Washington contracted smallpox during that trip, which immunized him but left his face slightly scarred.

Dutch painter and cartoonist Henry Kobell was born in the Netherlands.

The King of Sardinia, Charles Emanuel IV, was born in 1751.