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Year 1746 (MDCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1746

January - June

• January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
• January 17 - British Government forces suffer a defeat to Jacobite forces at the Battle of Falkirk.
• April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Rising.
• June - Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language.
• June 16 - Battle of Piacenza
• June 29 - Catherine of Ricci (born 1522) is canoized.

July - December

• August 1 - Wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act. Note that the actual effective date of the Dress Act was August 1, 1747, not 1746. See the text at Dress_Act
• August 18 - Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmeniro beheaded in the Tower (Lord Lovat was executed in 1747).
• 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.

Undated

• Town of Vilkovo (Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine) is founded.
• Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor Gabriel Johnston moves to the province's largest and most prosperous city of New Bern. As a result, New Bern replaces Edenton as the capital of North Carolina (a title it holds until Raleigh is established in 1792).

Births

• January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (died 1827)
• January 24 - King Gustav III of Sweden (died 1792)
• February 4 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish general and nationalist (died 1817)
• February 5 - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American politician and soldier (died 1825)
• March 4 - Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
• March 7 - André Michaux, French botanist (died 1802)
• March 30 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (died 1828)
• July 3 - Henry Grattan, Irish politician (died 1820)
• July 7 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (died 1826)
• July 23 - Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader, aided the United States in its quest for independence in the American Revolutionary War (died 1786).
• September 28 - Sir William Jones, English philologist (died 1794)
• November 27 - Robert R. Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1813)
• date unknown
  • Hong Liangji, Chinese scholar, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher.
  • Isaac Swainson, English botanist (died 1812)

See also Category: 1746 births.

Deaths

• February 28 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (born 1660)
• March 18 - Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (born 1718)
• March 20 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (born 1656)
• May 6 - William Tennent, Scottish-American theologian (born 1673)
• May 22 - Thomas Southerne, Irish playwright (born 1660)
• June 14 - Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (born 1698)
• July 2 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (born 1656)
• July 9 - King Philip V of Spain (born 1683)
• July 28 - John Peter Zenger, American printer (born 1697)
• August 6 - Christian VI, King of Denmark and Norway (born 1699)
• October 2 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty (born c.1666)
• November 14 - Georg Wilhelm Steller, German naturalist (born 1709)
• December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet (born 1665)
• December 8 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (born 1693)

See also Category: 1746 deaths.