* 1697 – Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1745 )

* 1745 – Prince Charles Edward Stuart raises his standard in Glenfinnan – the start of the Second Jacobite Rebellion, known as " the 45 ".

Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta ( 18 February 1745 – 5 March 1827 ) was an Italian physicist known for the invention of the battery in the 1800s.

During the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, Hume tutored the Marquis of Annandale ( 1720 – 92 ), who was officially described as a " lunatic ".

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

* 1745 – Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.

* 1745 – Benjamin Rush, doctor and Founding Father of the United States ( d. 1813 )

* 1745 – Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Italian musician and composer ( d. 1818 )

In 1782, Mary Sr ( the governess ) married Joseph Day ( 1745 – 1811 ), a Birmingham merchant, and moved away.

Avicenna also " described diabetes insipidus very precisely for the first time ", though it was later Johann Peter Frank ( 1745 – 1821 ) who first differentiated between diabetes mellitus and diabetes insipidus.

* William Gordon, 2nd Earl of Aberdeen ( 1679 – 1745 )

* 1677 – Nicola Fago, Italian Baroque composer and teacher ( d. 1745 )

* 1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer ( d. 1745 )

* 1745 – The city of Surakarta, Central Java is founded on the banks of Bengawan Solo River, and becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Surakarta.

* 1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist ( d. 1827 )

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

The Farquharsons were Jacobite sympathisers, and James Farquharson of Balmoral was involved in both the 1715 and 1745 rebellions, and was wounded at the Battle of Falkirk in 1746.

The Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745.

* 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: French victory in the Battle of Melle allows them to capture Ghent in the days after.

* 1745 – War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.

* 1745 – Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~ 5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.

* January 6 – Battle of Jersey: The British beat the French in what is technically the last battle fought in the British Islands ( coming after the Battle of Culloden in 1745 ).

May 11: Battle of Fontenoy ( 1745 ) | Battle of Fontenoy.

File: Battle of Fontenoy 1745 1. PNG | The Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745

The War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), which pitted the French and Prussians against the Austrians, British, and Dutch, culminated in a series of major French victories: the Battle of Fontenoy ( 1745 ), the Battle of Rocoux ( 1746 ), and the Battle of Lauffeld ( 1747 ).

Charles is perhaps best known as the instigator of the unsuccessful Jacobite uprising of 1745, in which he led an insurrection to restore an absolute monarchy in the United Kingdom, which ended in defeat at the Battle of Culloden that effectively ended the Jacobite cause.

On 21 September 1745, he defeated the only government army in Scotland at the Battle of Prestonpans.

He served in the War of the Austrian Succession becoming an aide to General John Ligonier and participating in the Battle of Dettingen in June 1743 and the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745.

Promoted to lieutenant colonel on 25 December 1745, he also action at the Battle of Rocoux in October 1746.

The fort was captured by the Jacobites in April 1745, just prior to the Battle of Culloden.

Matinicus was first settled in 1750 by a squatter, Ebenezer Hall, who had served as a lieutenant during the 1745 Battle of Louisburg.

* Isaac Davis ( 1745 – 1775 ), Captain of the Acton Minutemen at the Old North Bridge in Concord at the Battle of Lexington and Concord ; the first officer to die in the American Revolution

* The Battle of Prestonpans 1745, a victory for the Jacobites over the British government in 1745.

He was a witness to the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745 where he was part of the government Edinburgh militia.

* The Jacobite rising of 1745 begins when Bonnie Prince Charlie invades Scotland and defeats the British at the Battle of Prestonpans.

In the rising of 1745 he was one of the Jacobite leaders, being present at the battles of Prestonpans, of Falkirk and of Culloden, and consequently he was attainted in 1746 ; but escaped to France.

On 21 September 1745 at the Battle of Prestonpans a surprise attack planned by Lord George Murray routed the government forces, as celebrated in the Jacobite song Hey, Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Waking Yet ?.

One branch of the Clan Grant, the Grants of Glenmoriston sided with the Jacobites and fought at the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745 and are credited with winning the day due to their timely reinforcement.

The Macdonells of Glengarry also fought at the Clifton Moor Skirmish and Battle of Prestonpans in 1745 where they were victorious.

Although a successful officer in the Wars of the Spanish and Austrian Succession, he is best known for his defeat at the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745.

In 1745 in his role as Commander-in-Chief in Scotland, Cope was in command of the government forces at the Battle of Prestonpans and was defeated by the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart ( Bonnie Prince Charlie ).

Bonnie Prince Charlie held a council of war in a house in the village, shortly before the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745.