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* 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland.
These reformed French Breviaries — e. g. the Paris Breviary of 1680 by Archbishop François de Harlay ( 1625 – 1695 ) and that of 1736 by Archbishop Charles Gaspard Guillaume de Vintimille ( 1655 – 1746 )— show a deep knowledge of Holy Scripture, and much careful adaptation of different texts.
Carlo-Maria ( Ajaccio 1746 – Montpellier 1785 ) married Maria Letizia Ramolino ( Ajaccio 1750 – Rome 1836 ) in 1764.
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.
Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 ) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.
After visiting Latin School in Kamenz ( from 1737 onwards ) and the Fürstenschule St. Afra in Meissen ( from 1741 onwards ) he studied theology and medicine in Leipzig ( 1746 – 1748 ).
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On 15 April 1746, the day before the Battle of Culloden, at Dunrobin Castle, a party of the William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland ’ s militia conducted the last siege fought on the mainland of Great Britain against Jacobin members of clan MacLeod.
Sir William Jones ( 28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794 ) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.
After the Jacobite army was defeated at Culloden ( 1746 ), the Murrays were put under house arrest, and William was imprisoned in the Tower.
The name was given in 1746, when Dr. William Douglas, an eminent physician of Boston, in consideration of the privilege of naming the township offered the inhabitants the sum of $ 500. 00 as a fund for the establishment of free schools together with a tract of of land with a dwelling house and barn thereon.
In 1748 he published some Remarks on an Enquiry into the Rejection of Christian Miracles by the Heathens ( 1746 ), by William Weston, a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.
" William Lauder, Teacher of Humanities at Edinburgh University " appears in a Disposition in the National Archives of Scotland, ( GD267 / 27 / 138 / 1746 ) to Ninian Home of Billie, dated 25 August 1740.
William joined the American Regiment in 1746 and fought in Albany in King George's War, obtaining the rank of captain in 1747.
William Billings ( b. Boston, October 7, 1746 – d. Boston, September 26, 1800 ) was an American choral composer, and is widely regarded as the father of American choral music .< ref >
This series was written by William Guthrie, Samuel Johnson, and John Hawkesworth, and was printed in Edward Cave's periodical The Gentleman's Magazine from 1738 to 1746.
His son, also named William Jones born in 1746, was a renowned philologist who first recognised the existence of the Indo-European language group.
* Sir William Jones ( philologist ) ( 1746 – 1794 ), English philologist who proposed a relationship among Indo-European languages
The first rector was William Vesey ( for whom nearby Vesey Street is named ), a protege of Increase Mather, who served for 49 years until his death in 1746.
Illustration of the Venus Flytrap from Curtis's Botanical Magazine by William Curtis ( 1746 – 1799 )
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