* 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 War of the Austrian Succession saw Britain and France in conflict with each other, and in 1745 several warships and a small contingent of troops were sent from Boston, first to the Nova Scotian fishing port of Canso, and on to Louisbourg where they laid siege to the fortress until the French surrendered and were evacuated.

In 1745 the city was captured by French forces during the War of the Austrian Succession before being returned to Austria following the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.

* 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.

After the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1745 ) during King George's War, the New Englanders also captured Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ).

* May 17 – John Gunby, Maryland soldier in the American Revolutionary War ( b. 1745 )

* August 16 – David Brearley, American Revolutionary War coloner, signer of the U. S. Constitution for New Jersey, and federal judge ( b. 1745 )

# The Quadruple Alliance of 1745 was formed between the United Kingdom, the Dutch Republic, Saxony and Austria in the later stages of the War of the Austrian Succession.

During King George's War ( 1744 to 1748 ), an army of New Englanders led by William Pepperrell mounted an expedition of 90 vessels and 4, 000 men against Louisbourg in 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 ).

Frederick II had abandoned his French ally during the War of Austrian Succession, signing a separate peace treaty with Austria in December 1745.

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.

Early 19th century drawing of Old Queen's ( 1809 ), the oldest building on the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Revolutionary War hero and philanthropist, Colonel Henry Rutgers ( 1745 – 1830 ), early benefactor and namesake of Rutgers University.

After several years of closure resulting from an economic depression after the War of 1812, Queen's College reopened in 1825 and was renamed Rutgers College in honor of American Revolutionary War hero Colonel Henry Rutgers ( 1745 – 1830 ).

It soon became contested land between British and French colonial forces, and the village of Saratoga ( now Schuylerville ) was destroyed by the French in 1745 during King George's War.

In 1745, John Sevier, later a Revolutionary War commander and first governor of the State of Franklin and first Governor of Tennessee, was born in the town.

Monthly use of depth charges increased from 100 to 300 per month during 1917 to an average of 1745 per month during the last 6 months of World War I.

* John Barry ( naval officer ) ( 1745 – 1803 ), an officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy

The Battle of Fontenoy, 11 May 1745, was a major engagement of the War of the Austrian Succession, fought between the forces of the Pragmatic Allies – comprising mainly Dutch, British, and Hanoverian troops under the command of the Duke of Cumberland – and a French army under Maurice de Saxe, commander of King Louis XV's forces in the Low Countries.

The regiment itself was downgraded to a battalion ( Garde-Grenadier No 6 ) and employed during the War of the Austrian Succession at Hohenfriedberg in 1745 and at Rossbach, Leuthen, Hochkirch, Liegnitz and Torgau throughout the Seven Years ' War.

The Battle of Fontenoy, a major battle in the War of Austrian Succession, was fought near Fontenoy on May 11, 1745.

He gained experience organizing military expeditions during King George's War when he assembled many of the elements of the New England expedition that successfully captured Fortress Louisbourg in 1745, one of the feats for which he is best known.

In 1745 Cumberland was given the honorary title of Captain-General of the British land forces and in Flanders became Commander-in-Chief of the allied British, Hanoverian, Austrian and Dutch troops despite his inexperience.

Captured by British colonists in 1745, it was a major bargaining chip in the negotiations leading to the 1748 treaty ending the War of the Austrian Succession, and was returned to French control from British in exchange for Indian city of Madras.

Howe joined the army as an Ensign of the 1st Foot Guards in 1745 and saw service during the Flanders campaign of the War of the Austrian Succession.

Serving with the French armies in the War of the Austrian Succession, he distinguished himself in the campaigns of 1742, 1743 and 1744, and at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745.

In 1745, Murray defended the actions of the government in hiring 16, 000 Hanoverian troops to help fight in the War of the Austrian Succession.

* Siege of Louisbourg ( 1745 ), the capture of the settlement by British forces during the War of the Austrian Succession

Genoa reluctantly entered into the War of the Austrian succession in 1745.

The 1st saw service in the War of the Austrian Succession at the Battle of Fontenoy ( 1745 ), whilst the 2nd was engaged in the Second Jacobite Rising, fighting at the Battle of Falkirk and the infamous Battle of Culloden ( 1746 ), after which it returned to Ireland.

He served as Captain of the grenadier company of the 15th Regiment of Foot during the War of the Austrian Succession, being severely wounded during the Siege of Ostend in 1745, and distinguishing himself in the Raid on Lorient in 1746.

The Articles had been revised following an event in 1745, during the War of Austrian Succession, when a young lieutenant named Baker Phillips was court-martialed and shot after his ship was captured by the French.

Frederick's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine on 4 June 1745 during the War of the Austrian Succession.

The Second Silesian War, which was the last part of the War of the Austrian Succession in which Prussia took part, was almost at an end, and despite a close call at the Battle of Soor against the Austrians ( who were again led by Charles of Lorraine ), the peace at Dresden was signed on 25 December 1745, soon after yet another Prussian victory at the Battle of Kesselsdorf.