1746

This article is about the year 1746.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1746 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1746 MDCCXLVI
Ab urbe condita	2499
Armenian calendar	1195 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԵ
Assyrian calendar	6496
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)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4079
Minguo calendar	166 before ROC 民前166年
Thai solar calendar	2288–2289

1746 (MDCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday (dominical letter E) of the Julian calendar, the 1746th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 746th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 18th century, and the 7th year of the 1740s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1746 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

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

• Eva Ekeblad reports discovery of how to make flour and alcohol from potatoes to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
• 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

Francisco Goya

• 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.