- 1746
Year 1746 (MDCCXLVI) was a
common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian calendar (or acommon year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of PAGENAME
January - June
*January 8 -Bonnie Prince Charlie occupiesStirling .
*January 17 - Battle of Falkirk: British Government forces are defeated by Jacobite forces.
*April 16 - TheBattle of Culloden brings an end to theJacobite 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.July - December
*August 1 - The wearing of thekilt is banned inScotland by theDress Act (Note: the actual effective date of theDress Act wasAugust 1 ,1747 , not 1746 - see the text atDress 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 in1747 ).
*September 20 -Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to theIsle of Skye fromArisaig , after the unsucessfullJacobite rising of1745 , marked by thePrince's Cairn on the banks ofLoch nan Uamh
*October 22 - The College ofNew Jersey is founded (it becomesPrinceton University in1896 ).
*October 28 - An earthquake demolishes Lima andCallao , inPeru .Undated
* The town of
Vilkovo (Odes'ka oblast' ,Ukraine ) is founded.
*Royal Colony of North Carolina GovernorGabriel 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 in1792 ).Births
*January 12 -Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi , Swiss pedagogue (d.1827 )
*January 24 - KingGustav 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 4 -Kazimierz Pułaski , American Revolutionary War general (d.1779 )
*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 theUnited States in its quest for independence in theAmerican 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 ."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 - KingPhilip 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 - LadyGrizel Baillie , Scottish poet (b.1665 )
*December 8 -Charles Radclyffe , British politician (b.1693 ): "See also ."
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