1746

align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1743 1744 1745 - 1746 - 1747 1748 1749

align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s

align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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.

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 - Andr 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)

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