1748

Decades: 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s

Years: 1743 1744 1745 1746 1747 - 1748 - 1749 1750 1751 1752 1753

Events

• April 24 - A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle with the intent to conclude the struggle known as the War of Austrian Succession
• October 18 - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end that war
• Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh

Year in topic

• 1748 in literature
• 1748 in science

Births

• February 15 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer (died 1832)
• March 5 - William Shield, English violinist and composer (died 1829)
• March 8 - Prince William V of Orange (died 1806)
• May 3 - Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist (died 1836)
• August 30 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (died 1825)
• October 7 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (died 1818)
• October 13 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian (died 1821)
• November 11 - King Charles IV of Spain (died 1819)
• Olympe de Gouges, Woman playwright (died 1793)

Deaths

• January 1 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born 1667)
• March 14 - George Wade, Hanoverian soldier (born 1673)
• April 12 - William Kent, architect (born 1685)
• August 27 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (born 1700)
• November 25 - Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (born 1674)
• Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer (born 1684)

Monarchs/Presidents

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
• Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
• Kingdom of Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
• Russia - Elizabeth Empress of Russia (reigned from 1741 to January 5, 1762)
• Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)

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