1748
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s |
| Years: | 1745 1746 1747 - 1748 - 1749 1750 1751 |
| 1748 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science |
| Countries: Canada - Great Britain - |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1748 (MDCCXXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1748
[edit] January – June
- March 28 – A fire in the City of London causes over a million pounds worth of damage.
- April – Maastricht is conquered by Maurice de Saxe.
- April 24 – War of the Austrian Succession: A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the war.
[edit] July – December
- August - the Camberwell Beauty butterfly is named after specimens found at Camberwell in London.
- September 24 – Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Greater Khorasan.
- October 18 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war.
[edit] Undated
- Great Britain obtains Madras, in India, from France, in exchange of the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada.
- Leonhard Euler publishes Introductio in analysin infinitorum.
- Montesquieu publishes De l'Esprit des lois.
- Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.
- The building of Sveaborg begins near Helsinki.
- Henry Fielding organizes the forerunner of the Bow Street Runners (8 men at first).
- Ahmad Shah Bahadur captures Lahore.
- The ruins of Pompeii are discovered.
- Louis XV of France authorizes a 5% income tax on every individual regardless of social status; the Parlement of Paris protests.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1748 MDCCXLVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2501 |
| Armenian calendar | 1197 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԷ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -96 – -95 |
| Berber calendar | 2698 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2292 |
| Burmese calendar | 1110 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7256 – 7257 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁卯年十二月初一日 (4384/4444-12-1) — to —
戊辰年十一月十二日(4385/4445-11-12) |
| Coptic calendar | 1464 – 1465 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1740 – 1741 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5508 – 5509 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1803 – 1804 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1670 – 1671 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4849 – 4850 |
| Holocene calendar | 11748 |
| Iranian calendar | 1126 – 1127 |
| Islamic calendar | 1160 – 1162 |
| Japanese calendar | Enkyō 5Kan'en 1 (寛延元年) |
| Korean calendar | 4081 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2291 |
- January 1 – Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (d. 1794)
- January 19 – Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (d. 1814)
- February 2 – Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Order of the Illuminati (d. 1811)
- February 9 – Luther Martin, American politician (d. 1826)
- February 15 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer (d. 1832)
- February 22 – Timothy Dexter, American businessman (d. 1806)
- February 27 – Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist (d. 1820)
- March 5 – William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829)
- March 5 – Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
- March 8 – Prince William V of Orange (d. 1806)
- March 10 – John Playfair, Scottish scientist (d. 1819)
- April 12 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
- April 27 – Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (d. 1815)
- April 27 – Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (d. 1833)
- May 3 – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist (d. 1836)
- May 7 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (d. 1793)
- May 10 – Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (d. 1831)
- May 28 – Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (d. 1825)
- June 8 – William Few, American politician (d. 1828)
- June 30 – Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1845)
- August 8 – Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (d. 1804)
- August 30 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
- October 7 – King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (d. 1818)
- October 13 – Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian (d. 1821)
- October 19 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
- November 11 – King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
- November 13 – William Chalmers, Swedish merchant (d. 1811)
- December 9 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
- December 14 – William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (d. 1811)
- date unknown
- James Sayers, English caricaturist (d. 1823)
- Timur Shah, Afghan king (d. 1793)
- Thomas Holloway, English portrait painter and engraver (d. 1827)
[edit] Deaths
- January 1 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
- January 16 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
- February 18 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
- March 14 – George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
- March 23 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)
- April 12 – William Kent, English architect (b. c. 1685)
- May 12 – Thomas Lowndes, British astronomer (b. 1692)
- August 27 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
- September 6 – Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
- September 10 – Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress (b. 1663)
- September 12 – Anne Bracegirdle, English actress (b. c. 1671)
- September 21 – John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
- November 25 – Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (b. 1674)
- December 2 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)
