1746
Information about 1746
| Centuries: | 8th century - 9th century - 10th century |
| Decades: | 850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s |
| Years: | 885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891 |
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Events of
January - June
- January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
- January 17 - British Government forces suffer a defeat to Jacobite forces at the Battle of Falkirk.
- April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Rising.
- June - Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language.
- June 16 - Battle of Piacenza
- June 29 - Catherine of Ricci (born 1522) is canonized.
July - December
- August 1 - Wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act.
- August 18 - Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmeniro beheaded in the Tower (Lord Lovat executed 1747).
- October 22 - The College of New Jersey is founded (it becomes Princeton University in 1896).
- October 28 - An earthquake demolishes Lima and Callao, in Peru.
Undated
- Town of Vilkovo (Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine) is founded.
- Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor Gabriel Johnston moves to the province's largest and most prosperous city of New Bern. As a result, New Bern replaces Edenton as the capital of North Carolina (a title it holds until Raleigh is established in 1792).
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1746 MDCCXLVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2499 |
| Armenian calendar | 1195 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԵ |
| Bah' calendar | -98 – -97 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2290 |
| Chinese calendar | 4382/4442-8-7 (乙丑年八月初七日) — to — 4383/4443-6-16(丙寅年六月十六日) |
| Coptic calendar | 1462 – 1463 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1738 – 1739 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5506 – 5507 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1801 – 1802 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1668 – 1669 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4847 – 4848 |
| Holocene calendar | 11746 |
| Iranian calendar | 1124 – 1125 |
| Islamic calendar | 1159 – 1160 |
| Japanese calendar | Enkyō 0 (延享0年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2406 (皇紀2406年) |
| Julian calendar | 1791 |
| Korean calendar | 4079 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2289 |
- January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (died 1827)
- January 24 - King Gustav III of Sweden (died 1792)
- February 4 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish general and nationalist (died 1817)
- February 5 - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American politician and soldier (died 1825)
- March 4 - Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
- March 7 - André Michaux, French botanist (died 1802)
- March 30 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (died 1828)
- July 3 - Henry Grattan, Irish politician (died 1820)
- July 7 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (died 1826)
- July 23 - Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader, aided the United States in its quest for independence in the American Revolutionary War (died 1786).
- September 28 - Sir William Jones, English philologist (died 1794)
- November 27 - Robert R. Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1813)
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- Hong Liangji, Chinese scholar, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher.
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Deaths
- February 28 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (born 1660)
- March 18 - Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (born 1718)
- March 20 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (born 1656)
- May 6 - William Tennent, Scottish-American theologian (born 1673)
- May 22 - Thomas Southerne, Irish playwright (born 1660)
- June 14 - Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (born 1698)
- July 2 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (born 1656)
- July 9 - King Philip V of Spain (born 1683)
- July 28 - John Peter Zenger, American printer (born 1697)
- August 6 - Christian VI, King of Denmark and Norway (born 1699)
- October 2 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty (born c.1666)
- November 14 - Georg Wilhelm Steller, German naturalist (born 1709)
- December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet (born 1665)
- December 8 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (born 1693)
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- Upper Paleolithic
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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000.
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- The Danes invade England (870) and conquer East Anglia.
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- 885 — Vikings lay siege to Paris
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- 899 — Death of Alfred the Great
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-1740- 1741 1742 1743 1744 . 1745 . 1746 . 1747 . 1748 . 1749 . 1750
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In science: 1737 1738 1739 -1740- 1741 1742 1743
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-1746- 1747 . 1748 . 1749 1750 . 1751 . 1752 . 1753 . 1754 . 1755 .
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-1746- 1747 1748 1749 1750 . 1751 . 1752 . 1753 . 1754 . 1755 . 1756
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See also: 1745 in Canada, other events of 1746, 1747 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.
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Events
- Typhoid fever epidemic breaks out among the Micmac of Nova Scotia.
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1746 in Great Britain:
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1744 | 1745 | 1746 | 1747 | 1748 Events from the year 1746 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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1744 | 1745 | 1746 | 1747 | 1748 Events from the year 1746 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Events
- 8 January - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
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Ashanti Confederacy - Opoku Ware I, Asantehene (1720-1750) Bunyoro - Duhaga, Omukama of Bunyoro (1731-c.1782) Dahomey - Tegbesu, King of Dahomey (1732-1774) Ethiopia - Iyasus II, Emperor of Ethiopia (1730-1755) Nkore
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1745 colonial governors - Events of 1746 - 1747 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year
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Portugal
- Angola - Joaquim Jacques de Magalhães, Governor of Angola (1738-1748)
- Macau - Antonio de Mendonca Corte-Real, Governor of Macau (1743-1747)
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