1746

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s – 1740s – 1750s 1760s 1770s
Years:	1743 1744 1745 – 1746 – 1747 1748 1749

1746 by topic:
Arts and Sciences
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries
Canada – Great Britain –
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors – State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
Works

Events

January 8 – Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
January 17 – Battle of Falkirk: British Government forces are defeated by Jacobite forces.
April 16 – The Battle of Culloden, the final pitched battle fought on British soil, 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: Austrian forces defeat French and Spanish troops.
June 29 – Catherine of Ricci (b. 1522) is canonized.

August 1 – The wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act (Note: 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, are beheaded in the Tower (Lord Lovat was executed in 1747).
September 20 – Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to the Isle of Skye from Arisaig, after the unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1745, marked by the Prince's Cairn on the banks of Loch nan Uamh
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.

The 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).
Publication of Charles Batteux's Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of "les beaux arts": "the fine arts".

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)
April 4 – John Andrews, American clergyman, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, considered "America's first scholar" (d. 1813)
July 3 – Henry Grattan, Irish politician (d. 1820)
July 7 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)
July 23 – Bernardo de Gálvez, Spanish military leader, aided the United States in its quest for independence in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1786)
September 28 – Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
October 7 – William Billings, American composer (d. 1800)
November 27 – Robert R. Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)
date unknown
- Hong Liangji, Chinese scholar, statesman, political theorist, and philosopher
- Isaac Swainson, English botanist (d. 1812)