1746
Events January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Risings 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 Catharine de Ricci (born 1522) canonized.
Births January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (died 1827) January 24 - King Gustav III of Sweden (died 1792) February 4 - Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish general and nationalist (died 1817) February 5 - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Federalist politician and soldier (died 1825) March 7 - André Michaux, French botanist (died 1802) March 30 - Francisco Goya, painter (died 1828) July 3 - Henry Grattan, Irish politician (died 1820) September 28 - Sir William Jones, discoverer of the Indo-European languages family (died 1794) November 27 - Robert R. Livingston, American public official and diplomat (died 1813)
Deaths May 22 - Thomas Southerne, Irish playwright (born 1660) June 14 - Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (born 1698) July 9 - Philip V of Spain (born 1683) July 28 - John Peter Zenger, American printer (born 1697) August 6 - Christian VI of Denmark (born 1699) November 14 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (born 1709) December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet (born 1665)
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