1748

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Years:	1745 1746 1747 – 1748 – 1749 1750 1751

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1748 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1748 MDCCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2501
Armenian calendar	1197 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6498
Bengali calendar	1155
Berber calendar	2698
British Regnal year	21 Geo. 2 – 22 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2292
Burmese calendar	1110
Byzantine calendar	7256–7257
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4444 or 4384 — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4445 or 4385
Coptic calendar	1464–1465
Discordian calendar	2914
Ethiopian calendar	1740–1741
Hebrew calendar	5508–5509
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1804–1805
- Shaka Samvat	1670–1671
- Kali Yuga	4849–4850
Holocene calendar	11748
Igbo calendar	748–749
Iranian calendar	1126–1127
Islamic calendar	1160–1162
Japanese calendar	Enkyō 5 / Kan'en 1 (寛延元年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4081
Minguo calendar	164 before ROC 民前164年
Thai solar calendar	2290–2291

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Year 1748 (MDCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

January 12 – Ahmad Shah Durrani captures Lahore.^[1]
March 11 – In battle near Manupur (15 km northwest of Sirhind), Mughal forces under Prince Ahmad Shah Bahadur are victorious against Ahmad Shah Durrani.
March 28 – A fire in the City of London causes over a million pounds worth of damage.
April – Maastricht is conquered by Maurice de Saxe.
April 24 – War of the Austrian Succession: A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the war.

July–December

August – The Camberwell Beauty butterfly is named after specimens found at Camberwell in London.
September 24 – Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Greater Khorasan.
October 18 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war. Great Britain obtains Madras, in India, from France, in exchange for the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada.

Date unknown

Leonhard Euler publishes Introductio in analysin infinitorum, an introduction to pure analytical mathematics, in Berlin.
Montesquieu publishes De l'esprit des lois.
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock publishes the first three cantos of his epic poem Der Messias in hexameters (anonymously) in Bremer Beiträge (Leipzig).
Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.
The building of Sveaborg begins near Helsinki.
The ruins of Pompeii are rediscovered.
Louis XV of France authorizes a 5% income tax on every individual regardless of social status; the Parlement of Paris protests.

Births

January 19 – Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (d. 1814)
February 2 – Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Order of the Illuminati (d. 1811)
February 9 – Luther Martin, American politician (d. 1826)
February 15 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer (d. 1832)
February 22 – Timothy Dexter, American businessman (d. 1806)
February 27 – Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist (d. 1820)
March 5
- William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829)
- Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
March 8 – Prince William V of Orange (d. 1806)
March 10 – John Playfair, Scottish scientist (d. 1819)
April 12 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
April 27
- Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (d. 1815)
- Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (d. 1833)
May 3 – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist (d. 1836)
May 7 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (d. 1793)
May 10 – Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (d. 1831)
May 28 – Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (d. 1825)
June 8 – William Few, American politician (d. 1828)
June 30 – Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1845)
August 8 – Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (d. 1804)
August 30 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
October 7 – King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (d. 1818)
October 13 – Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian (d. 1821)
October 19 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
November 11 – King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
November 13 – William Chalmers, Swedish merchant (d. 1811)
December 9 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
December 14 – William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (d. 1811)
date unknown
- James Sayers, English caricaturist (d. 1823)
- Timur Shah, Afghan king (d. 1793)
- Thomas Holloway, English portrait painter and engraver (d. 1827
- Stylianos Vlasopoulos, Greek judge and writer (d. 1822)

Deaths

January 1 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
January 16 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
February 18 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
March 14 – George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
March 23 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)
April 12 – William Kent, English architect (b. c. 1685)
May 12 – Thomas Lowndes, British astronomer (b. 1692)
August 27 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
September 6 – Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
September 10 – Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress (b. 1663)
September 12 – Anne Bracegirdle, English actress (b. c. 1671)
September 21 – John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
November 25 – Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (b. 1674)
December 2 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)

References

↑ "Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasions". Retrieved 2011-11-02.