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October 11 :Battle of Rocoux 1746 (MDCCXLVI ) was acommon year starting on Saturday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Wednesday of theJulian calendar , the 1746th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 46th year of the18th century , and the 7th year of the1740s decade. As of the start of 1746, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 8 – The Young PretenderCharles Edward Stuart occupiesStirling ,Scotland .January 17 –Battle of Falkirk Muir :British Government forces are defeated by Jacobite forces.[ 1] February 1 –Jagat Singh II , the ruler of theMewar Kingdom , inaugurates hisLake Palace on the island of Jag Niwas inLake Pichola , in what is now the state ofRajasthan in northwest India.[ 2] February 19 –Prince William, Duke of Cumberland , issues a proclamation offering an amnesty to participants in theJacobite rebellion , directing them that they can avoid punishment if they turn their weapons in to their local Presbyterian church.[ 3] February 22 –Brussels , at the time part of theAustrian Netherlands , surrenders toFrance 's MarshalMaurice de Saxe .[ 4] March 10 –Zakariya Khan Bahadur , theMughal Empire 's viceroy administeringLahore (in what is now Pakistan), orders the massacre of the city'sSikh people .[ 5] July 3 – Father Joachim Royo, the last of the five Spanish Catholic missionaries toFuzhou inChina , is captured by Chinese authorities, after having spent three decades defying orders to not evangelize.[ 8] July 9 – KingPhilip V of Spain dies, after a reign of more than 45 years. His oldest living son succeeds him, asKing Ferdinand VI .August 1 – The wearing of thekilt is banned inScotland by theDress Act , which comes into force one year later, on August 1, 1747.August 18 – Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords,Earl of Kilmarnock andLord Balmerinoch , are beheaded in theTower of London (Lord Lovat is executed in1747 ).September 20 –Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to theIsle of Skye fromArisaig , after the unsuccessfulJacobite rising of 1745 , marked by thePrince's Cairn on the banks ofLoch nan Uamh .October 11 –War of the Austrian Succession –Battle of Rocoux : TheFrench army defeats the alliedAustrian ,British ,Hanoveran andDutch army inRocourt .October 22 – TheCollege of New Jersey is founded in Princetown, New Jersey. In 1896, it is renamed Princeton University.October 28 – Anearthquake demolishesLima andCallao , inPeru .November 4 –Anwaruddin Khan , the Nawab of theArcot State in South India, is driven back by the Captain Louis Paradis of the French Army after he and 10,000 soldiers attempt to drive the French back out ofMadras .[ 9] December 5 – Rallied by a teenage boy, Giovanni Battista Perasso (nicknamedBalilla "), the citizens of theRepublic of Genoa rise up against the Austrian occupying troops and the collaborator Military Governor, the GenoeseMarquis of Botta d'Adorno . By December 11, the Austrian soldiers are driven from the Italian city-state, but return a few months later.[ 10]
Tadeusz Kościuszko Francisco Goya March 30 –Francisco Goya , Spanish painter (d.1828 )April 4 –John Andrews , American clergyman, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania (d.1813 )May 9 –Gaspard Monge , Frenchmathematician andgeometer (d.1818 )June 3 –James Hook , English composer (d.1827 )July 3 –Henry Grattan , Irish politician (d.1820 )July 16 –Giuseppe Piazzi , Italian astronomer (d.1826 )July 23 –Bernardo de Gálvez , Spanish military leader, aids theUnited States in its quest for independence in theAmerican Revolutionary War (d.1786 )July 30 –Louise du Pierry , French astronomer (d.1807 )September 28 –Sir William Jones , English philologist (d.1794 )October 7 –William Billings , American composer (d.1800 )November 27 –Robert R. Livingston , American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d.1813 )December 29 –Saverio Cassar , Gozitan priest and rebel leader (d.1805 )date unknown February 4 –Robert Blair , Scottish poet and cleric (b.1699 )February 8 –Anton Josef Kirchweger , German writerFebruary 26 –Thomas Watson, 3rd Earl of Rockingham , British politician (b.1715 )February 28 –Hermann von der Hardt , German historian (b.1660 )March 18 –Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia , regent of Russia (b.1718 )March 20 –Nicolas de Largillière , French painter (b.1656 )April 29 –William Flower, 1st Baron Castle Durrow , Irish politician (b.1685 )May 6 –William Tennent , Scottish-American theologian (b.1673 )May 13 –James Drummond, 3rd Duke of Perth , British noble (b.1713 )May 22 –Thomas Southerne , Irish playwright (b.1660 )June 14 –Colin Maclaurin , Scottish mathematician (b.1698 )July 2 –Thomas Baker , English antiquarian (b.1656 )Philip V of Spain July 9 – KingPhilip V of Spain (b.1683 )July 28 –John Peter Zenger , American printer, whose court case advanced freedom of the press in the American colonies (b.1697 )July 30 –Francesco Trevisani , Italian painter (b.1656 )August 6 –Christian VI , King of Denmark and Norway (b.1699 )August 8 –Francis Hutcheson , Irish philosopher (b.1694 )September 25 –St George Gore-St George , Irish politician (b.1722 )October 2 –Josiah Burchett , English Secretary of the Admiralty (b. c.1666 )November 14 –Georg Steller , German naturalist (b.1709 )December 6 –Lady Grizel Baillie , Scottish poet (b.1665 )December 8 –Charles Radclyffe , British politician and rebel, by beheading after being convicted of treason against the Crown (b.1693 )^ Historic Environment Scotland ."Battle of Falkirk II (BTL9)" . RetrievedJune 18, 2020 .^ Cheryl Bentley,A Guide to the Palace Hotels of India (Hunter Publishing, 2011) ^ Geoffrey Plank,Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) pp61-62 ^ George Edmundson,A History of Holland (Ozymandias Press, 2018) ^ Harish Jain,The Making of Punjab (Unistar Books, 2003) p193 ^ Historic Environment Scotland ."Battle of Culloden (BTL6)" . RetrievedJune 18, 2020 .^ Richard Davey,The Tower of London (E. P. Dutton, 1910) pp333-334 ^ Anthony E. Clark,China's Saints: Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing (1644–1911) (Lexington Books, 2011) p73 ^ Sir William W. Hunter,The History of Nations: India (John D. Morris, 1906) p179 ^ "Eighteenth Century", inWarfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015 , ed. by Micheal Clodfelter (McFarland, 2017) p77 
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