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 1 Events of 1746 1.1 January – June 1.2 July – December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1746

January – June

• January 8 – Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
• January 17 – Battle of Falkirk: British Government forces are defeated by Jacobite forces.
• April 16 – The 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: Austrian forces defeat French and Spanish troops.
• June 29 – Catherine of Ricci (b. 1522) is canonized.

July – December

• August 1 – The wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act (Note: the actual effective date of the Dress Act was August 1, 1747, not 1746 – see the text at Dress Act).
• August 18 – Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmeniro, are beheaded in the Tower (Lord Lovat was executed in 1747).
• September 20 – Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to the Isle of Skye from Arisaig, after the unsucessfull Jacobite rising of 1745, marked by the Prince's Cairn on the banks of Loch nan Uamh
• 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

• The 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

1746 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1746 MDCCXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2499
Armenian calendar	1195 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԵ
Bahá'í calendar	-98 – -97
Berber calendar	2696
Buddhist calendar	2290
Burmese calendar	1108
Byzantine calendar	7254 – 7255
Chinese calendar	乙丑年十二月初十日 (4382/4442-12-10) — to — 丙寅年十一月二十日 (4383/4443-11-20)
Coptic calendar	1462 – 1463
Ethiopian calendar	1738 – 1739
Hebrew calendar	5506 – 5507
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1801 – 1802
- Shaka Samvat	1668 – 1669
- Kali Yuga	4847 – 4848
Holocene calendar	11746
Iranian calendar	1124 – 1125
Islamic calendar	1158 – 1159
Japanese calendar	Enkyō 3 (延享3年)
Korean calendar	4079
Thai solar calendar	2289
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• 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)
• July 23 – Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader, aided the United States in its quest for independence in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1786)
• September 28 – Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
• November 27 – Robert R. Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)
• date unknown
  • Hong Liangji, Chinese scholar, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher
  • Isaac Swainson, English botanist (d. 1812)

See also Category: 1746 births.

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 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 (b. c. 1666)
• 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)

See also Category: 1746 deaths.

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