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Events
- Catharine de Ricci (born 1522) canonized.
- Town of Vilkovo (Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine) is founded.
- 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).
January
- January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling
- January 17 - British Government forces suffer a defeat to Jacobite forces at the Battle of Falkirk
February
March
April
- April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Risings
May
June
July
August
- August 1 - Wearing of the kilt banned in Scotland by the Dress Act
- August 18 - Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmeniro beheaded in the Tower (Lord Lovat executed 1747)
September
October
- 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
November
December
Births
- January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
- January 24 - King Gustav III of Sweden (d. 1792)
- February 4 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish general and nationalist (d. 1817)
- February 5 - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American politician and soldier (d. 1825)
- March 7 - André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
- March 30 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
- July 3 - Henry Grattan, Irish politician (d. 1820)
- July 7 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)
- September 28 - Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
- November 27 - Robert R. Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)
Deaths
- February 28 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
- March 18 - Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)
- March 20 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)
- May 6 - William Tennent, Scottish-American theologian (b. 1673)
- May 22 - Thomas Southerne, Irish playwright (b. 1660)
- June 14 - Colin Maclaurin, Scottish mathematician (b. 1698)
- July 2 - Thomas Baker, English antiquarian (b. 1656)
- July 9 - King Philip V of Spain (b. 1683)
- July 28 - John Peter Zenger, American printer (b. 1697)
- August 6 - Christian VI, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1699)
- October 2 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
- November 14 - Georg Wilhelm Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
- December 6 - Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet (b. 1665)
- December 8 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician (b. 1693)
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