1746

• Polish patriot and American Revolutionary War hero Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
• French aviation pioneer Jacques Alexandre César Charles.
• Italian astronomer Guiseppe Piazzi^M.
• American religious leader Absalom Jones, in slavery.
• French mathematician Gaspard Monge.
• Spanish painter Francisco Goya.
• French botanist and explorer André Michaux.
• Spanish governor of Louisiana Bernardo de Gálvez.
• American statesman Robert R. Livingston.
• American statesman Charles C. Pinckney^M.
• Future Swedish king Gustavus III.

• Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin.
• Scottish poet Robert Blair.
• King Philip V of Spain, whose accession triggered the War of the Spanish Succession.
• Bohemian composer Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer.

• War of the Austrian Succession/King George's War:
• (January 16) A Jacobite army decimates an English army near Falkirk.
• (April 16) The forces of Charles Edward Stewart, aka "Bonnie Prince Charlie", are crushed by the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Culloden.  The Jacobite rebellion is extinguished; Stewart flees to France.
• (October 11) the French and under Marshal Maurice de Saxe defeat the Austrians, British and Hanoverians (led by the Duke of Cumberland) at Roucoux.
• French troops under Joseph François Dupleix take Madras from the British, and keep the British from taking Pondicherry^M.
• The "College of New Jersey" founded in Princeton .
• Ferdinand VI succeeds to the Spanish throne.

1745 - 1746 - 1747

How They Were Made - 18th Century

^MThanks to mauler for his contributions to this writeup.