This article is about the year 1746.
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 by topic: | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1746 MDCCXLVI |
Ab urbe condita | 2499 |
Armenian calendar | 1195 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԵ |
Assyrian calendar | 6496 |
Bahá'í calendar | −98 – −97 |
Bengali calendar | 1153 |
Berber calendar | 2696 |
British Regnal year | 19 Geo. 2 – 20 Geo. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 2290 |
Burmese calendar | 1108 |
Byzantine calendar | 7254–7255 |
Chinese calendar | 乙丑年 (Wood Ox) 4442 or 4382 — to — 丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4443 or 4383 |
Coptic calendar | 1462–1463 |
Discordian calendar | 2912 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1738–1739 |
Hebrew calendar | 5506–5507 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1802–1803 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1668–1669 |
- Kali Yuga | 4847–4848 |
Holocene calendar | 11746 |
Igbo calendar | 746–747 |
Iranian calendar | 1124–1125 |
Islamic calendar | 1158–1159 |
Japanese calendar | Enkyō 3 (延享3年) |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4079 |
Minguo calendar | 166 before ROC 民前166年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2289 |
Year 1746 (MDCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 8 – Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
- January 17 – Battle of Falkirk Muir: British Government forces are defeated by Jacobite forces.
- April 16 – The Battle of Culloden, the final pitched battle fought on British soil, brings an end to the Jacobite rising of 1745.
- 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.
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).
- August 18 – Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerinoch, 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.
Date unknown
- 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).
- Publication of Charles Batteux's Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of "les beaux arts": "the fine arts".
Births
- 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)
- April 4 – John Andrews, American clergyman, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, considered "America's first scholar" (d. 1813)
- July 3 – Henry Grattan, Irish politician (d. 1820)
- July 16 – 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)
- October 7 – William Billings, American composer (d. 1800)
- 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)
Deaths
- February 28 – Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
- March 18 – Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia, 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)
Unknown date
- Anton Josef Kirchweger, German writer.