Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  – 1740s –  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1743 1744 1745 – 1746 – 1747 1748 1749

1746 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 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

[edit] Events of 1746

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 unsuccessful 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.

[edit] 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).

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.