1745

Year 1745 (MDCCXLV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1745

January - June

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May 11: Battle of Fontenoy.

• May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch.
• June 4 - Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg.

July - December

• August 19 - Beginning of the '45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan.
• September 12 - Francis I is elected Holy Roman Emperor with the support of his wife, Maria Theresia of Austria. He is the successor of Charles VII Albert of Bavaria, an enemy of Habsburg, who died on January 20 of this year.
• September 14 - Madame de Pompadour is officially presented in the court of Louis XV of France.
• September 21 - British Government forces are defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans.
• December 25 - Treaty of Dresden gives Prussia full possession of Silesia.
• December 28 - For five days, fire destroys buildings in Istanbul.

Ongoing events

• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748).
• The "Forty Five"/Bliadhna Theàrlaich, part of the second Jacobite Rising, mainly in Scotland.

Births

• February 18 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)
• February 20 - Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
• March 4 - Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814)
• April 6 - Thomas Peters, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 1857)
• July 13 - Robert Calder, British naval officer, (d. 1818)
• August 20 - Francis Asbury, American Methodist Bishop (d. 1816)
• September 16 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
• November 23 - John Treadwell, the fourth Governor of Connecticut (d. 1823)
• December 15 - Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (d. 1801)
• date unknown - Danwon, Korean painter (d. 1806)

See also Category: 1745 births.

Deaths

• January 20 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1697)
• March 18 - Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1676)
• May 9 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (born 1663)
• May 22 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (born 1671)
• October 19 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (born 1667)
• November 16 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (born 1665)
• December 8 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (born 1683)
• December 19 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (born 1684)

See also Category: 1745 deaths.af:1745

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