What happened in 1746?

Battle of Culloden

Wars & Conflicts

Final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745 and part of a religious civil war in Britain

Carnatic Wars

Wars & Conflicts

18th-century wars between the French and the British

Battle of Rocoux

Wars & Conflicts · Rocourt

Battle during the War of the Austrian Succession, result was French victory

Battle of Piacenza

Wars & Conflicts · Piacenza

1746 battle

Siege of Brussels

Wars & Conflicts · Brussels

1746 siege during the War of the Austrian Succession

First Carnatic War

Wars & Conflicts · Chennai

(1746-1748)

Battle of Rottofreddo

Wars & Conflicts · Rottofreno

Battle of the War of Austrian Succession (1746)

Battle of Falkirk Muir

Wars & Conflicts · Falkirk

1746 last noteworthy Jacobite success during the Jacobite risings

Battle of Madras

Wars & Conflicts · Chennai

1746 battle of the War of the Austrian Succession

Battle at Port-la-Joye

Wars & Conflicts · Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst

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

Battle of Adyar

Wars & Conflicts · Adyar River

1746 battle in India during the First Carnatic War

Raid on Lorient

Wars & Conflicts · Lorient

1746 British attempt to capture the town during the War of the Austrian Succession

Siege of Namur

Wars & Conflicts · Namur

1746 siege in the War of the Austrian Succession

Siege of Genoa

Wars & Conflicts · Genoa

1746 Austrian siege

Siege of Ruthven Barracks

Wars & Conflicts · Ruthven

Siege of 1746

Siege of Inverness

Wars & Conflicts · Inverness

1746 military event in Scotland

Siege of Fort Massachusetts

Wars & Conflicts · North Adams

1746 siege

Siege of Stirling Castle

Wars & Conflicts · Stirling

1746 siege

Siege of Fort William

Wars & Conflicts · Fort William

Siege in Highland, Scotland, UK

Siege of Antibes

Wars & Conflicts · Antibes

1746–1747 siege

Siege of Mons

Wars & Conflicts · Mons

1746 siege during the War of the Austrian Succession

Battle of Littleferry

Wars & Conflicts · Littleferry

Battle in Highland, Scotland, UK

Siege of Blair Castle

Wars & Conflicts · Blair Atholl

1746 battle between Scottish forces loyal to the British-Hanoverian government and Scottish Jacobite forces loyal to the House of Stuart

Siege of Fort Augustus

Wars & Conflicts · Fort Augustus

1746 siege

Siege of Tiracol

Wars & Conflicts · Tiracol

1746 siege

Siege of Alorna

Wars & Conflicts · Pernem taluk

1746 military engagement that took place in India

Chhota Ghallughara

Wars & Conflicts · Gurdaspur district

1746 massacre of Sikhs

Action of 6 July 1746

Wars & Conflicts · Nagapattinam

1746 naval battle

Fort St. Philip

Wars & Conflicts

Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana

Treaty of Kerden

Politics & Government · Kordan

Treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Afsharid Iran

Georg Wilhelm Steller died

People · Tyumen

Explorer and zoologist famous for discovering Steller's Sea Lion

Colin MacLaurin died

People · Edinburgh

Scottish mathematician (1698–1746)

Adam Brand died

People · Lübeck

German author

Ignaz Kögler died

People · Beijing

German missionary

Hermann Friedrich Teichmeyer died

People · Jena

German botanist (1685-1746)

Pietro di Martino died

People · Naples

Italian mathematician and astronomer (1707-1746)

Johann Heinrich von Heucher died

People · Dresden

German botanist and physicist (1677-1746)

Adriana Maas died

People · Amsterdam

Dutch actress

Tadeusz Kościuszko born

People · Mieračoŭščyna

Born in Mieračoŭščyna. Polish, Lithuanian and American military leader (1746–1817).

Gustav III of Sweden born

People · The Royal Court Parish

Born in The Royal Court Parish. King of Sweden from 1771 to 1792 (1746–1792).

Gaspard Monge born

People · Beaune

Born in Beaune. French mathematician, inventor of descriptive geometry and father of differential geometry (1746-1818).

William Jones born

People · London

Born in London. Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India (1746–1794).

Carlo Bonaparte born

People · Ajaccio

Born in Ajaccio. Father of Napoleon Bonaparte (1746-1785).

Stéphanie Félicité Ducrest de Saint-Aubin de Genlis born

People · Issy-l'Évêque

Born in Issy-l'Évêque. French writer (1746–1830).

Timur Shah Durrani born

People · Mashhad

Born in Mashhad. Emir of Afghanistan (1746 , 1793).

Maurice Benyovszky born

People

Born. Hungarian traveller and writer.

Tiradentes born

People · Fazenda do Pombal

Born in Fazenda do Pombal. Political activist for Brazilian independence (1746–1792).

Bernardo de Gálvez born

People · Macharaviaya

Born in Macharaviaya. Spanish colonial administrator (1746-1786).

Joachim Heinrich Campe born

People · Deensen

Born in Deensen. German writer and academic.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney born

People · Charleston

Born in Charleston. American politician (1746-1825).

Frederick Louis, Prince of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen born

People · Ingelfingen

Born in Ingelfingen. German general (1746–1818).

Philip V of Spain died

People · Madrid

Died in Madrid. King of Spain from 1700 to 1746 (1683–1746).

Christian VI of Denmark died

People · Hirschholm Palace

Died in Hirschholm Palace. King of Denmark and Norway.

Sophia Magdalena of Denmark born

People · Christiansborg Palace

Born in Christiansborg Palace. Queen consort of Sweden (1746-1813).

Princeton University

Science & Technology · Princeton

Private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Expedition to Riyadh

Exploration & Discovery · Riyadh

Ottoman expedition against the Igawawen

Exploration & Discovery · Ouacifs

Senones Abbey

Religion & Belief Systems

Abbey located in Vosges, in France

New Temple gallery in Sarajevo

Religion & Belief Systems

Cathedral of San Vito al Tagliamento

Religion & Belief Systems

Church building in San Vito al Tagliamento, Italy

Castle Synagogue in Nowy Sącz

Religion & Belief Systems

Ansbach Synagogue

Religion & Belief Systems

Former synagogue, now Jewish museum in Ansbach, Germany

Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Myślniew

Religion & Belief Systems

Church building in Myślniew, Poland

Parish church Müllrose

Religion & Belief Systems · Müllrose

Church building in Brandenburg state, Germany

Welsh Tract Baptist Church

Religion & Belief Systems

Church building in Delaware, United States of America

Shili Shuixian Temple

Religion & Belief Systems

Shuixian Temple at Shili Village of Penghu Taiwan, main serves the God of Water

Rectory (Apfeltrang)

Religion & Belief Systems · Apfeltrang

Building in Apfeltrang

Sant’Anna Church

Religion & Belief Systems · Rasa

Church building in Rasa in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland

Wegekreuz Winzerstraße 47

Religion & Belief Systems

Rectory

Religion & Belief Systems

Church residential building in Reichenbach im Kandertal in the canton of Bern, Switzerland

Rectory in Ferenbalm

Religion & Belief Systems

Church residence and part of an architectural ensemble in Ferrenbalm in the canton of Bern, Switzerland

Catholic Rectory

Religion & Belief Systems

Church residential building in Güttingen in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland

Catholic Rectory

Religion & Belief Systems · Hörhausen

Church residential building in Hörhausen in the canton of Thurgau, Switzerland

1746 Lima - Callao earthquake

Disasters & Pandemics

Earthquake and tsunami in Peru

Jacobite rising of 1745

Social Movements & Revolutions · Scotland

Attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for the exiled House of Stuart

Asam Church

Architecture & Engineering · Munich Altstadt

Filial Roman Catholic church in Munich, Germany

Sapieha Palace, Warsaw

Architecture & Engineering

Palace

Saint Anne Cathedral, Debrecen

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Debrecen, Hungary

Uspenska church, Zrenjanin

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Zrenjanin, Serbia

Church of Saint Nicholas in Vinnytsya

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Vinnytsia, Ukraine

Thiene Cathedral

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Thiene, Italy

Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men

Architecture & Engineering

Roman catholic church

St Martin's Church, Allerton Mauleverer

Architecture & Engineering · Allerton Mauleverer

Church in Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK

Fulneck Moravian Church

Architecture & Engineering

Church in Leeds, UK

Fonte Grande of Morro de São Paulo

Architecture & Engineering

Fountain and historical good listed by the Bahia Artistic and Cultural Heritage Institute, Cairu, Brazil

Neptuns Triumph

Architecture & Engineering · Lustgarten

Fountain in Potsdam

Exaltation of the Cross church, Podil

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Kyiv, Ukraine

Armenian Church of the Assumption of Mary in Presnya

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Moscow, Russia

Assumption Church

Architecture & Engineering

Church building in Torzhok, Russia

Sulzberg chapel

Architecture & Engineering · Sulperg

Chapel in Wettingen in the canton of Aargau, Switzerland