What happened in 1746?
65 recorded events in 1746, including 26 in wars & conflicts, 21 in people and 9 in architecture & engineering.
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Wars & Conflicts 26
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Battle of Culloden
Final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain
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Carnatic Wars
18th-century wars between the French and the British
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Battle of Rocoux
Battle during the War of the Austrian Succession, result was French victory
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Battle of Piacenza
1746 battle
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Siege of Brussels
1746 siege during the War of the Austrian Succession
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First Carnatic War
(1746-1748)
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Battle of Rottofreddo
Battle of the War of Austrian Succession (1746)
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Battle of Falkirk Muir
1746 last noteworthy Jacobite success during the Jacobite risings
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Battle of Madras
1746 battle of the War of the Austrian Succession
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Battle at Port-la-Joye
Battle in King George's War that took place with British against Canadian troops and Mi'kmaq militia on the banks of present-day Hillsborough River, Prince Edward Island in the summer of 1746
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Battle of Adyar
1746 battle in India during the First Carnatic War
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Raid on Lorient
1746 British attempt to capture the town during the War of the Austrian Succession
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Siege of Namur
1746 siege in the War of the Austrian Succession
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Siege of Genoa
1746 Austrian siege
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Siege of Ruthven Barracks
Siege of 1746
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Siege of Inverness
1746 military event in Scotland
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Siege of Fort Massachusetts
1746 siege
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Siege of Stirling Castle
1746 siege
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Siege of Fort William
Siege in Highland, Scotland, UK
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Siege of Antibes
1746–1747 siege
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Siege of Mons
1746 siege during the War of the Austrian Succession
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Battle of Littleferry
Battle in Highland, Scotland, UK
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Siege of Blair Castle
1746 battle between Scottish forces loyal to the British-Hanoverian government and Scottish Jacobite forces loyal to the House of Stuart
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Siege of Fort Augustus
1746 siege
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Siege of Tiracol
1746 siege
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Siege of Alorna
1746 military engagement that took place in India
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Politics & Government 1
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Treaty of Kerden
Treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Afsharid Iran
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People 21
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Georg Wilhelm Steller died
Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion
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Colin MacLaurin died
Scottish mathematician (1698–1746)
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Adam Brand died
German author
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Ignaz Kögler died
German missionary
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Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer died
German botanist (1685-1746)
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Pietro di Martino died
Italian mathematician and astronomer (1707-1746)
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Johann Heinrich von Heucher died
German botanist and physicist (1677-1746)
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Adriana Maas died
Dutch actress
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Tadeusz Kościuszko born
Born in Mieračoŭščyna. Polish, Lithuanian and American military leader (1746–1817).
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Gustav III of Sweden born
Born in The Royal Court Parish. King of Sweden from 1771 to 1792 (1746–1792).
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Gaspard Monge born
Born in Beaune. French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818).
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William Jones born
Born in London. Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746–1794).
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Carlo Bonaparte born
Born in Ajaccio. Father of Napoleon Bonaparte (1746-1785).
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Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin de Genlis born
Born in Issy-l'Évêque. French writer (1746–1830).
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Timur Shah Durrani born
Born in Mashhad. Emir of Afghanistan (1746 , 1793).
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Maurice Benyovszky born
Born in Q846444. Hungarian traveller and writer.
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Tiradentes born
Born in Fazenda do Pombal. Political activist for Brazilian independence (1746–1792).
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Bernardo de Gálvez born
Born in Macharaviaya. Spanish colonial administrator (1746-1786).
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Joachim Heinrich Campe born
Born in Deensen. German writer and academic.
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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney born
Born in Charleston. American politician (1746-1825).
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Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen born
Born in Ingelfingen. German general (1746–1818).
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Religion & Belief Systems 6
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Senones Abbey
Abbey located in Vosges, in France
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New Temple gallery in Sarajevo
New Temple gallery in Sarajevo (Religion & Belief Systems).
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Cathedral of San Vito al Tagliamento
Church building in San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy
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Castle Synagogue in Nowy Sącz
Castle Synagogue in Nowy Sącz (Religion & Belief Systems).
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Ansbach Synagogue
Former synagogue, now Jewish museum in Ansbach, Germany
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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Myślniew
Church building in Myślniew, Poland
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Disasters & Pandemics 1
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1746 Lima - Callao earthquake
Earthquake and tsunami in Peru
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Social Movements & Revolutions 1
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Jacobite rising of 1745
Attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart
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Architecture & Engineering 9
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Asam Church
Filial Roman Catholic church in Munich, Germany
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Sapieha Palace, Warsaw
Palace
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Saint Anne Cathedral, Debrecen
Church building in Debrecen, Hungary
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Uspenska church, Zrenjanin
Church building in Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Church of Saint Nicholas in Vinnytsya
Church building in Vinnytsia, Ukraine
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Thiene Cathedral
Church building in Thiene, Italy
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Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men
Roman catholic church
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St Martin's Church, Allerton Mauleverer
Church in Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK
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Fulneck Moravian Church
Church in Leeds, UK
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