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Years: 1744 1745 1746 - 1747 - 1748 1749 1750

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 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

• Kandahar taken from Nadir Shah by Ahmad Shah Durrani, and becomes the first capital of the newly-independent Afghanistan
• Thomas Herring appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
• James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy
• Samuel Johnson begins work on A Dictionary of the English Language
• War of the Austrian Succession: Spanish troops invade and occupy the coastal towns of Beaufort and Brunswick in North Carolina during what becomes known as the Spanish Alarm. They are later driven out by the local militia.

January

• January 31 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital

February

March

April

• April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain

May

• May 14 - War of the Austrian Succession: First battle of Cape Finisterre

June

• June 9 - Emperor Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Sakuramachi

July

• July 2 - Battle of Lawfeld

August

September

October

• October 25 - War of the Austrian Succession: Second battle of Cape Finisterre.

November

• November 9 – Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform
• November 22 – Prince William IV of Orange becomes stadtholder of all the provinces of the United Provinces

December

• December 16 – Canter of Coltbrigg – 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites of Charles Edward Stuart

Ongoing events

• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

Births

• January 15 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
• January 19 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (d. 1826)
• January 26 - Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster (d. 1825)
• May 5 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
• July 6 - John Paul Jones, American naval captain (d. 1792)
• October 8 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)
• December 12 - Anna Seward, English writer (d. 1809)
• François Tourte, French musical instrument maker (d. 1835)
• Francis Salvador, American patriot (d. 1776)
• Thomas Coke, first American Methodist Bishop (d. 1814)

Deaths

• January 16 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
• March 16 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
• March 23 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
• April 2 - Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684)
• April 7 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676)
• April 9 - Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief
• May 9 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
• May 28 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
• May 31 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
• June - Nadir Shah, Persian leader (b. 1688)
• June 19 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
• July 9 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670)
• October 10 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury
• November 17 - Alain-René Le Sage, French writer (b. 1668)
• December 2 - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)af:1747

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