1745 in Canada
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Events from the year 1745 in Canada.
[edit] Events
- Louisbourg surrenders to English after six-week siege (June 17).
- English forces take Louisbourg and make new conquests from the French in the West Indies.
- Massachusetts Governor William Shirley takes the French Fortress Louisbourg.
- Battle of Culloden.
- 16 June 1745 - After a six-week siege, the French fort of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island falls to the British colonial forces from New England . This intensifies hostilities in what is known as king george's war, an extension of the European War of the Austrian Succession
[edit] Births
- Samuel Hearne, explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist (d.1792)
[edit] Deaths
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