Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  – 1740s –  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1742 1743 1744 – 1745 – 1746 1747 1748

1745 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – Great Britain –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1745 (MDCCXLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1745 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1745

[edit] January–June

• May 11 – War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch.
• June 4 – Frederick the Great destroys the Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg.

[edit] July–December

• July 26 – The first recorded women's cricket match took place near Guildford, England
• August 19 – The '45 Jacobite Rising begins at Glenfinnan.
• September 12 – Francis I is elected Holy Roman Emperor with the support of his wife, Maria Theresia of Austria. He is the successor of Charles VII Albert of Bavaria, an enemy of Habsburg, who died on January 20 of this year.
• September 14 – Madame de Pompadour is officially presented in the court of Louis XV of France.
• September 21 – Battle of Prestonpans: British Government forces are defeated.
• 4 December – The Jacobite Army reaches Derby; two days later it begins retreat.
• 19 December The Jacobite army led by Bonnie Prince Charlie; on retreat from Derby, was defeated by the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Clifton Moor near Penrith, Cumberland. This was the last land battle ever to take place on English soil.

December 25 – The Treaty of Dresden gives Prussia full possession of Silesia.

• December 28 – For 5 days, fire destroys buildings in Istanbul.

[edit] Ongoing events

• War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748).
• The "Forty Five"/Bliadhna Theàrlaich, part of the second Jacobite Rising, mainly in Scotland.

[edit] Births

1745 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1745 MDCCXLV
Ab urbe condita	2498
Armenian calendar	1194 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԴ
Bahá'í calendar	-99 – -98
Berber calendar	2695
Buddhist calendar	2289
Burmese calendar	1107
Byzantine calendar	7253 – 7254
Chinese calendar	甲子年十一月廿九日 (4381/4441-11-29) — to — 乙丑年十二月初九日 (4382/4442-12-9)
Coptic calendar	1461 – 1462
Ethiopian calendar	1737 – 1738
Hebrew calendar	5505 – 5506
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1800 – 1801
- Shaka Samvat	1667 – 1668
- Kali Yuga	4846 – 4847
Holocene calendar	11745
Iranian calendar	1123 – 1124
Islamic calendar	1157 – 1158
Japanese calendar	Enkyō 2 (延享2年)
Korean calendar	4078
Thai solar calendar	2288
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• February 18 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)
• February 20 – Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
• March 4 – Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814)
• March 4 – Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
• March 10 – John Gunby, Maryland soldier in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1807)
• April 6 – Thomas Peters, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 1857)
• July 13 – Robert Calder, British naval officer, (d. 1818)
• August 20 – Francis Asbury, American Methodist Bishop (d. 1816)
• September 16 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
• November 23 – John Treadwell, the fourth Governor of Connecticut (d. 1823)
• December 15 – Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (d. 1801)
• date unknown – Danwon, Korean painter (d. 1806)

[edit] Deaths

• January 20 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1697)
• March 18 – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
• May 9 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
• May 22 – François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
• October 19 – Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (b. 1667)
• November 16 – James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)
• December 8 – Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683)
• December 19 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)