History
1745
General
Population: 797 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Jonathan Swift, James Thomson (tragedy), Samuel Johnson (about Macbeth), Philip Doddridge (religion)
Art includes Hogarth "Self Portrait", Oudry "Still Life with Pheasants", Tiepolo "Antony and Cleopatra" frescoes,
Music includes The quadrille becomes a fashionable dance in France
- Science: Charles Bonnet writes about insects
- Technology: Ewald Jurgen von Kleist invents capacitor "Leyden Jar"
- Deaths: Author Jonathan Swift, Satirist John Arbuthnot, Architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Artist Nicolas Lancret, Emperor Charles VII of Bavaria
Americas
- Canada: British forces and New England settlers capture French fortress of Louisbourg in Canada
Asia
- India: Famine
- Japan: End of rule by shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune - Ishege becomes Shogun with corruption
Europe
- General: French under Marechal de Saxe defeat English at Fontenoy – take Austrian Netherlands
Alliance among Austria Saxony Britain and Netherlands against Prussia
- France: Battle of Fontenoy – French defeat British forces in War of Austrian Succession
- German States: Prussian victory at Hohenfriedberg
Peace of Dresden – Prussia recognizes Pragmatic Sanction but retains Silesia from Austria
Johann Stamitz becomes Kapellmeister in Mannheim
Claim to Austrian throne withdrawn
- Great Britain: Second Jacobite rising in Britain led by Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stuart the "young pretender") – fails to restore Stuart dynasty to British throne
Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay Island in Scotland, defeate English at Prestonpans but is forced to retreat - "Forty-Five" Jacobite uprising
George II of England becomes last British king to fight in battle (at Dettingen)
England subsidizes Austria with troops then withdraws
Scottish national song "The Campbells are Coming" published
Middlesex Hospital in London founded
Earliest Oddfellows lodge in England
- Holy Roman Empire: Death of Charles VII of Bavaria the emperor – Francis II husband of Maria Theresa elected HRE Francis I to 1765 and first of the Lorraine-Tuscany line
Gerard ban Swieton the founder of Viennese School of Medicine becomes court physician to Maria Theresa
Battles of Hohenfriedberg and Soor – Austrians defeated
Silesia region ceded to Frederick II of Prussia
East
- Connecticut: New Royal charter for Yale College