1746

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Events of 1746

January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
January 17 - British Government forces suffer a defeat to Jacobite forces at the Battle of Falkirk.
April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Rising.
June - Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language.
June 16 - Battle of Piacenza
June 29 - Catherine of Ricci (born 1522) is canonized.

August 1 - Wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act. Note that the actual effective date of the Dress Act was August 1, 1747, not 1746. See the text at Dress_Act
August 18 - Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmeniro beheaded in the Tower (Lord Lovat was executed in 1747).
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.

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).

January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (died 1827)
January 24 - King Gustav III of Sweden (died 1792)
February 4 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish general and nationalist (died 1817)
February 5 - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American politician and soldier (died 1825)
March 4 - Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
March 7 - André Michaux, French botanist (died 1802)
March 30 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (died 1828)
July 3 - Henry Grattan, Irish politician (died 1820)
July 7 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (died 1826)
July 23 - Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader, aided the United States in its quest for independence in the American Revolutionary War (died 1786).
September 28 - Sir William Jones, English philologist (died 1794)
November 27 - Robert R. Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1813)
date unknown
- Hong Liangji, Chinese scholar, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher.
- Isaac Swainson, English botanist (died 1812)

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