1748
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Template:C18YearInTopicX Year 1748 (MDCCXXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1748
January - June
- March 28 - A fire in the City of London causes over a million pounds worth of damage.
- April - Maastricht is conquered by Maurice de Saxe.
- April 24 - War of the Austrian Succession: A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the war.
July - December
- September 24 - Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Greater Khorasan.
- October 18 - War of the Austrian Succession: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war.
Undated
- Great Britain obtains Madras, in India, from France, in exchange of the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada.
- Leonhard Euler publishes Introductio in analysin infinitorum.
- Montesquieu publishes De l'Esprit des lois.
- Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.
- The building of Sveaborg begins near Helsinki.
- Henry Fielding organizes the forerunner of the Bow Street Runners (8 men at first).
- Ahmad Shah Bahadur captures Lahore.
- The ruins of Pompeii are discovered.
- Louis XV of France authorizes a 5% income tax on every individual regardless of social status; the Parlement of Paris protests.
Births
Gregorian calendar | 1748 MDCCXLVIII |
Ab urbe condita | 2501 |
Armenian calendar | 1197 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԷ |
Assyrian calendar | 6498 |
Balinese saka calendar | 1669–1670 |
Bengali calendar | 1155 |
Berber calendar | 2698 |
British Regnal year | 21 Geo. 2 – 22 Geo. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 2292 |
Burmese calendar | 1110 |
Byzantine calendar | 7256–7257 |
Chinese calendar | 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4445 or 4238 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4446 or 4239 |
Coptic calendar | 1464–1465 |
Discordian calendar | 2914 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1740–1741 |
Hebrew calendar | 5508–5509 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1804–1805 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1669–1670 |
- Kali Yuga | 4848–4849 |
Holocene calendar | 11748 |
Igbo calendar | 748–749 |
Iranian calendar | 1126–1127 |
Islamic calendar | 1160–1162 |
Japanese calendar | Enkyō 5 / Kan'en 1 (寛延元年) |
Javanese calendar | 1672–1673 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4081 |
Minguo calendar | 164 before ROC 民前164年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 280 |
Thai solar calendar | 2290–2291 |
Tibetan calendar | 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1874 or 1493 or 721 — to — 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1875 or 1494 or 722 |
- January 1 - Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (d. 1794)
- January 19 - Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (d. 1814)
- February 2 - Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Order of the Illuminati (d. 1811)
- February 9 - Luther Martin, American politician (d. 1826)
- February 15 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer (d. 1832)
- February 22 - Timothy Dexter, American businessman (d. 1806)
- February 27 - Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist (d. 1820)
- March 5 - William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829)
- March 5 - Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
- March 8 - Prince William V of Orange (d. 1806)
- March 10 - John Playfair, Scottish scientist (d. 1819)
- April 12 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
- April 27 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (d. 1815)
- April 27 - Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (d. 1833)
- May 3 - Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist (d. 1836)
- May 7 - Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (d. 1793)
- May 10 - Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (d. 1831)
- May 28 - Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (d. 1825)
- June 8 - William Few, American politician (d. 1828)
- June 30 - Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1845)
- August 8 - Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (d. 1804)
- August 30 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
- October 7 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (d. 1818)
- October 13 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian (d. 1821)
- October 19 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
- November 11 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
- November 13 - William Chalmers, Swedish merchant (d. 1811)
- December 9 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
- December 14 - William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (d. 1811)
- date unknown - James Sayers, English caricaturist (d. 1823)
- Timur Shah, Afghan king (d. 1793)
- See also Category: 1748 births.
Deaths
- January 1 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
- January 16 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
- February 18 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
- March 14 - George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
- March 23 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)
- April 12 - William Kent, English architect (b. c. 1685)
- May 12 - Thomas Lowndes, British astronomer (b. 1692)
- August 27 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
- September 6 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
- September 10 - Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress (b. 1663)
- September 12 - Anne Bracegirdle, English actress (b. c. 1671)
- September 21 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
- November 25 - Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (b. 1674)
- December 2 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)
- See also Category: 1748 deaths.