* 1677 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun, Austrian field marshal ( d. 1748 )

* 1662 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset ( d. 1748 )

* 1686 – John Balguy, English philosopher ( d. 1748 )

* 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter ( d. 1825 )

Lavoisier's experiments supported the law of conservation of mass, which he was the first to state, although Mikhail Lomonosov ( 1711 – 1765 ) had previously expressed similar ideas in 1748 and proved them in experiments.

* 1748 – Joseph Schuster, German composer ( d. 1812 )

** Volume 3: Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748 – 1757 ( 2008 ), 768pp excerpt and text search

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was supported by the Croatians in the War of Austrian Succession of 1741 – 1748 and subsequently made significant contributions to Croatian matters.

The University was founded in 1829 following a donation by William Chalmers ( 1748 – 1811 ), a director of the Swedish East India Company, whose ships sailed across the world to supply Europe with goods from the East.

* Jeremy Bentham ( 1748 – 1832 )

**** House of Bourbon-Parma ( 1748 – present )

* 7 Dukes and Duchess of Parma ( 1731 – 1735, 1748 – 1802, 1814 – 1859 )

* Patriarch Cyril V of Constantinople, patriarch in 1748 – 1757

Claude Louis Berthollet ( 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822 ) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.

His parents were Didier Diderot ( 1675 – 1759 ) a cutler, maître coutelier and his wife Angélique Vigneron ( 1677 – 1748 ).

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.

* 1748 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( b. 1662 )

* 1748 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist ( d. 1822 )

Jacques-Louis David (; ) ( 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825 ) was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era.

* 1748 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher ( d. 1832 )

* 1748 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher ( d. 1830 )

* September 17 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( b. 1748 )

Her paternal grandparents were Joseph Clary ( Marseille, 22 November 1693 – Marseille, 30 August 1748 ), son of Jacques Clary and his wife Catherine Barosse, paternal grandson of Antoine Clary and wife Marguerite Canolle, and maternal grandson of Angelin Barosse and his wife Jeanne Pélissière, and wife ( m. in Marseille, 27 February 1724 ) Françoise-Agnès Ammoric ( Marseille, 6 March 1705 – Marseille, 21 December 1776 ), daughter of François Ammoric and his wife Jeanne Boisson.

* Mańe Christine de Noailles ( 1672 – 1748 ), married ( 1687 ) Antoine V de Gramont duc de Gramont ;, Marshal of France ( 1671 – 1725 )

Antoine Santerre married his third cousin Marie Claire Santerre, daughter of a wealthy bourgeois brewer, Jean François Santerre, from the Cambrai in March 1748.

* September 17-Antoine Laurent de Jussieu ( born 1748 ), botanist.

In the War of Austrian Succession, the British carried out unsuccessful attacks against Santiago de Cuba in 1741 and again in 1748.

The idea of a feudal state or period, in the sense of either a regime or a period dominated by lords who possess financial or social power and prestige, became widely held in middle of the 18th century, thanks to works such as Montesquieu's De L ' Esprit des Lois ( 1748 ; published in English as The Spirit of the Laws ), and Henri de Boulainvilliers ’ s Histoire des anciens Parlements de France ( 1737 ; published in English as An Historical Account of the Antient Parliaments of France or States-General of the Kingdom, 1739 ).

* La Mettrie, La Mettrie, Julien Offray de ( 1748 ).

* 1748 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and feminist revolutionary ( d. 1793 )

Image: Louis15-1. jpg | Maurice Quentin de La Tour, a bravura pastel portrait of Louis XV, 1748

* Olympe de Gouges ( 1748 – 1793 ), French playwright and activist who championed feminist politics.

* November 3 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright ( executed ) ( b. 1748 )

* November 30 – Jean-Baptiste-Melchior Hertel de Rouville, Canadian politician ( b. 1748 )

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Image: Pompadour6. jpg | Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Full-length portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour, 1748 – 1755

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ( 1748 – 1831 ) spent ten years studying North American birds and wrote the Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de l ' Amerique septentrionale ( 1807-1808 ?).

Though most of Provence, with the exception of Marseille, Aix and Avignon, was rural, conservative and largely royalist, it did produce some memorable figures in the French Revolution ; Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau from Aix, who tried to moderate the Revolution, and turn France into a constitutional monarchy like England ; the Marquis de Sade from Lacoste in the Luberon, who was a Deputy from the far left in the National Assembly ; Charles Barbaroux from Marseille, who sent a battalion of volunteers to Paris to fight in the French Revolutionary Army ; and Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès ( 1748 – 1836 ), an abbé, essayist and political leader, who was one of the chief theorists of the French Revolution, French Consulate, and First French Empire, and who, in 1799, was the instigator of the coup d ' état of 18 Brumaire, which brought Napoleon to power.

Lambert's will provided 30 million francs ( approximatively 5 million euros ) to Le Pen, as well as his castle in Montretout, Saint-Cloud ( the same castle had been owned by Madame de Pompadour until 1748 ).

Louis XV of France by Maurice Quentin de La Tour ( 1748 ) Pastel painting.

Louis XV, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour, ( 1748 )

While back in France, Charles had numerous affairs ; the one with his first cousin Marie Louise de La Tour d ' Auvergne, wife of Jules, Prince of Guéméné, resulted in a short-lived son Charles ( 1748 – 1749 ).

* Jean-Michel Huon de Kermadec ( 1748 – 1792 ), navigator

Louis Petit de Bachaumont in a fauteuil, by Carmontelle, ca 1748 ; in the background the Hôtel de Rouillé is being demolished, to free Claude Perrault | Perrault's classic facade of the Louvre

* By Marie-Louise Madeleine Victorine Le Bel de La Bussière, dite comtesse d ' Argenton or madame d ' Argenton or mademoiselle de Séry ( 1684 – 1748 ), a lady of noble family, who was Lady-in-Waiting to the Dowager Duchess of Orléans, daughter of Daniel Le Bel de La Bussière and wife Anne de Masparant: