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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
Years: 1742 1743 1744 1745 1746 - 1747 - 1748 1749 1750 1751 1752
Events
- January 31 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital
- April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain
- May 3 - Battle of Cape Finisterre in the War of the Austrian Succession
- July 2 - Battle of Lawfeld
- Emperor Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Sakuramachi
- Kandahar taken from Nadir Shah by Ahmad Shah Durrani, and becomes the first capital of the newly-independent Afghanistan
- Thomas Herring appointed Archbishop of Canterbury
- James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy
- Wearing of the kilt banned in Scotland by the Dress Act
- Samuel Johnson begins work on A Dictionary of the English Language
Ongoing events
Year in topic
Births
- January 26 - Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster (died 1825)
- May 5 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1792)
- July 6 - John Paul Jones, American naval captain (died 1792)
- October 8 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician
- Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (died 1826)
- François Tourte, French musical instrument maker (died 1835)
- Anna Seward, English writer (died 1809)
Deaths
- March 16 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia
- April 9 - Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat (born c.1667)
- October 10 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c.1674)
- Nadir Shah, Persian leader
- Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman
- Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet
- Alain-René Le Sage, French novelist and playwright (born 1668)
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)
