1746

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Year '1746' ('MDCCXLVI') was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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

★ 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)

★ ''date unknown''

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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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