1746
*
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*
January 17 -
British Government forces suffer a defeat to Jacobite forces at the
Battle of FalkirkFebruary
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
PeruNovember
December
*
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)
*
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 6 -
William Tennent, Scottish-American theologian (b.
1673)
*
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)
