1746

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1743 1744 1745 - 1746 - 1747 1748 1749\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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1746 in literature
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

\n* January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling\n* April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Rebellions\n* October 22 - The College of New Jersey is founded (it becomes Princeton University in 1896)\n* October 28 - An earthquake demolishes Lima and Callao, in Peru\n* Catharine de Ricci (born 1522) canonized. \n

Births

\n* January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (died 1827)\n* January 24 - King Gustav III of Sweden (died 1792)\n* February 4 - Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish general and nationalist (died 1817)\n* February 5 - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American Federalist politician and soldier (died 1825)\n* March 7 - André Michaux, French botanist (died 1802)\n* March 30 - Francisco Goya, painter (died 1828)\n* July 3 - Henry Grattan, Irish politician (died 1820)\n* September 28 - Sir William Jones, discoverer of the Indo-European languages family (died 1794)\n* November 27 - Robert R. Livingston, American public official and diplomat (died 1813)

Deaths

\n* May 22 - Thomas Southerne, Irish playwright (born 1660)\n* June 14 - Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (born 1698)\n* July 9 - Philip V of Spain (born 1683)\n* July 28 - John Peter Zenger, American printer (born 1697)\n* August 6 - Christian VI of Denmark (born 1699)\n* November 14 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (born 1709)\n* December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet (born 1665) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n