Events 1746

1 events

1.1 january–june
1.2 july–december
1.3 date unknown

events
january–june

january 8 – young pretender charles edward stuart occupies stirling.
january 17 – battle of falkirk muir: british government forces defeated jacobite forces.
april 16 – battle of culloden in scotland, final pitched battle fought on british soil, brings end jacobite rising of 1745.
june 16 – battle of piacenza: austrian forces defeat french , spanish troops.
june 18 – samuel johnson contracted write dictionary of english language.
june 29 – catherine of ricci (b. 1522) canonized.

july–december

august 1 – wearing of kilt banned in scotland dress act (note: actual effective date of dress act august 1, 1747, not 1746).
august 18 – 2 of 4 rebellious scottish lords, earl of kilmarnock , lord balmerinoch, beheaded in tower of london (lord lovat executed in 1747).
september 20 – bonnie prince charlie flees isle of skye arisaig, after unsuccessful jacobite rising of 1745, marked prince s cairn on banks of loch nan uamh.
october 11 – war of austrian succession – battle of rocoux: french army defeat allied austrian, british, hanoveran , dutch army in rocourt.
october 22 – college of new jersey founded (it becomes princeton university in 1896).
october 28 – earthquake demolishes lima , callao, in peru.

date unknown

eva ekeblad reports discovery, of how make flour , alcohol potatoes, royal swedish academy of sciences.
the town of vilkovo (odes ka oblast , ukraine) founded.
royal colony of north carolina governor gabriel johnston moves province s largest , prosperous city of new bern. result, new bern replaces edenton capital of north carolina (a title holds until raleigh established in 1792).
charles batteux s les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe published in paris, putting forward first time idea of les beaux arts : fine arts .