1746

Years:
1743 1744 1745 - 1746 - 1747 1748 1749
Decades:
1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s
Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
1746 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths

Events

January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling
April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Risings
August 18 - Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmeniro beheaded in the Tower (Lord Lovat executed 1747)
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

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)
September 28 - Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
November 27 - Robert R. Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)