1748 in Great Britain

Events from the year 1748 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

28 March - A fire in the City of London causes over a million pounds worth of damage.^[1]
August - Admiral Edward Boscawen commands a Royal Navy siege of Pondicherry.^[2]
18 October - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession, by which Madras in India is restored to British rule in exchange for the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada with France.^[3]

Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.
Henry Fielding organises the forerunner of the Bow Street Runners, with eight men at first.^[2]
John Fothergill's pamphlet Account of the Sore Throat attended with Ulcers contains the first description of diphtheria.^[2]

14 March - George Wade, military leader (born 1673, Ireland)
12 April - William Kent, architect, landscape architect and furniture designer (born c. 1685)
12 May - Thomas Lowndes, astronomer (born 1692)
27 August - James Thomson, poet (born 1700)
6 September - Edmund Gibson, jurist (born 1669)
12 September - Anne Bracegirdle, actress (born c.1671)
21 September - John Balguy, philosopher (born 1686)
October - Donald Cameron of Lochiel (born 1700)
25 November - Isaac Watts, hymn writer (born 1674)
2 December - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, politician (born 1662)

^ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher (995). The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan. p. 287. ISBN 0-333-57688-8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "1748." The People's Chronology. Ed. Jason M. Everett. Thomson Gale, 2006.
^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 312–313. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.