1748

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Year '1748' ('MDCCXLVIII') was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of

January - June

★ March 28 - a fire in the City of London causes over a million pounds worth of damage.

★ April - Maastricht is conquered by Maurice de Saxe.

★ April 24 - War of Austrian Succession: A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the war (treaty signed October 18).

July - December

★ September 24 - Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Khorasan.

★ October 18 - War of Austrian Succession: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war.

Undated

★ Great Britain obtains Madras, in India, from France, in exchange of the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada.

★ Leonhard Euler publishes ''Introductio in analysin infinitorum''.

★ Montesquieu publishes ''De l'Esprit des lois''.

★ Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.

★ The building of Sveaborg begins near Helsinki.

★ Henry Fielding organizes the forerunner of the Bow Street Runners: eight men at first.

★ Ahmad Shah Bahadur captures Lahore.

★ The ruins of Pompeii are discovered.

Births

★ January 1 - Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (died 1794)

★ January 19 - Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (died 1814)

★ February 2 - Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Order of the Illuminati (died 1811)

★ February 9 - Luther Martin, American politician (died 1826)

★ February 15 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer (died 1832)

★ February 22 - Timothy Dexter, American businessman (died 1806)

★ February 27 - Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist (died 1820)

★ March 5 - William Shield, English violinist and composer (died 1829)

★ March 5 - Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (died 1810)

★ March 8 - Prince William V of Orange (died 1806)

★ March 10 - John Playfair, Scottish scientist (died 1819)

★ April 12 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (died 1836)

★ April 27 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (died 1815)

★ April 27 - Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (died 1833)

★ May 3 - Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist (died 1836)

★ May 7 - Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (died 1793)

★ May 10 - Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (died 1831)

★ May 28 - Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (died 1825)

★ June 8 - William Few, American politician (died 1828)

★ June 30 - Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (died 1845)

★ August 8 - Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (died 1804)

★ August 30 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (died 1825)

★ October 7 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (died 1818)

★ October 13 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian (died 1821)

★ October 14 - Alexianne and Kyrianne Stryker, Makain thieves (This is Jane's addition XD)

★ October 19 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (died 1782)

★ November 11 - King Charles IV of Spain (died 1819)

★ November 13 - William Chalmers, Swedish merchant (died 1811)

★ December 9 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (died 1822)

★ December 14 - William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (died 1811)

★ ''date unknown'' - James Sayers, English caricaturist (died 1823)
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Deaths

★ January 1 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born 1667)

★ January 16 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (born 1684)

★ February 18 - Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (born 1677)

★ March 14 - George Wade, British military leader (born 1673)

★ March 23 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (born 1684)

★ April 12 - William Kent, English architect (born c.1685)

★ May 12 - Thomas Lowndes, British astronomer (born 1692)

★ August 27 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (born 1700)

★ September 6 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (born 1669)

★ September 12 - Anne Bracegirdle, English actress (born c.1671)

★ September 21 - John Balguy, English philosopher (born 1686)

★ November 25 - Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (born 1674)

★ December 2 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (born 1662)

★ December 19 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (born 1672)
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