1746

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Years: 1743 1744 1745 - 1746 - 1747 1748 1749

Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Template:C18YearInTopic

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• Catharine de Ricci (born 1522) canonized.
• Town of Vilkovo (Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine) is founded.
• 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).

January

• January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling

February

March

April

• April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Risings

May

June

July

August

• August 1 - Wearing of the kilt 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)

September

October

• 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

November

December

Births

• January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
• January 24 - King Gustav III of Sweden (d. 1792)
• February 4 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish general and nationalist (d. 1817)
• February 5 - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American politician and soldier (d. 1825)
• March 7 - André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
• March 30 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
• July 3 - Henry Grattan, Irish politician (d. 1820)
• July 7 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)
• September 28 - Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
• November 27 - Robert R. Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)

Deaths

• February 28 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
• March 18 - Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)
• March 20 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)
• May 22 - Thomas Southerne, Irish playwright (b. 1660)
• June 14 - Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698)
• July 2 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
• July 9 - King Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
• July 28 - John Peter Zenger, American printer (b. 1697)
• August 6 - Christian VI, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1699)
• October 2 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
• November 14 - Georg Wilhelm Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
• December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet (b. 1665)
• December 8 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (b. 1693)af:1746

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