1746
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| 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 |
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).
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[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
| 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 |
- 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.