History
1746
General
Population: 802 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Gellert, Denis Diderot (philosophy), Jonathan Edwards (religion), Lucy Terry Bars Fight – first African American poem
Art includes Bouchier "The Milliners", Joshua Reynolds "The Eliot Family", Antonio Canaletto goes to England,
Music includes Handel
- Deaths: Philosopher Francis Hutcheson, Poet Robert Blair, Christian VI of Denmark, Philip V of Spain
Africa
- East Africa: Mazrui dynasty in Mombasa E Africa becomes independent from Oman
Americas
Asia
Europe
- General: Alliance between Russia and Austria against Prussia
French victory at Baucoux – Austria loses the Netherlands
- Denmark: Death of Christian VI - succeeded by Frederick V
- France: Jean-Etienne Guettard draws first geological map of France
- Great Britain: Charles Edward Stuart the "Young Pretender" wins victory at Falkirk but he and Jacobites defeated at Culloden – with the help of Flora MacDonald escapes to France
William Pitt made paymaster general to the British forces
Scots crushed in battle
Wearing of tartans prohibited
- Spain: Philip V of Spain dies – succeeded by Ferdinand VI (Ferdinand I)
East
- New Jersey: College of New Jersey founded (later Princeton)