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Contents

1 Events

1.1 January
1.2 February
1.3 March
1.4 April
1.5 May
1.6 June
1.7 July
1.8 August
1.9 September
1.10 October
1.11 November
1.12 December

2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

Kandahar taken from Nadir Shah by Ahmad Shah Durrani, and becomes the first capital of the newly-independent Afghanistan
Thomas Herring appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy
Samuel Johnson begins work on A Dictionary of the English Language
War of the Austrian Succession: Spanish troops invade and occupy the coastal towns of Beaufort and Brunswick in North Carolina during what becomes known as the Spanish Alarm. They are later driven out by the local militia.

January

January 31 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital

February

March

April

April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain

August

September

October

October 25 - War of the Austrian Succession: Second battle of Cape Finisterre.

November

November 9 – Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform
November 22 – Prince William IV of Orange becomes stadtholder of all the provinces of the United Provinces

December

December 16 – Canter of Coltbrigg – 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites of Charles Edward Stuart

Ongoing events

War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

Births

January 15 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
January 19 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (d. 1826)
January 26 - Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster (d. 1825)
May 5 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
July 6 - John Paul Jones, American naval captain (d. 1792)
October 8 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)
December 12 - Anna Seward, English writer (d. 1809)
François Tourte, French musical instrument maker (d. 1835)
Francis Salvador, American patriot (d. 1776)
Thomas Coke, first American Methodist Bishop (d. 1814)
Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (d. 1795)

Deaths

January 16 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
March 16 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
March 23 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
April 2 - Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684)
April 7 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676)
April 9 - Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief
May 9 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
May 28 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
May 31 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
June - Nadir Shah, Persian leader (b. 1688)
June 19 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
July 9 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670)
October 10 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury
November 17 - Alain-René Le Sage, French writer (b. 1668)
December 2 - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)

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