* 1748 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist ( d. 1836 )

* 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 – 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 )

* 1748 – King Charles XIII of Sweden ( d. 1818 )

* February 5 – Charles XIII / Charles II, King of Sweden and Norway ( b. 1748 )

* August 13 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician ( d. 1748 )

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.

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 ).

In 1748 Charles was expelled from France under the terms of the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle which brought the war between Britain and France to an end.

He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady ( 1748 ) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison ( 1753 ).

* Charles King 1707 – 1748 ( Vicar Choral )

Charles XIII & II also Carl, ( Stockholm, 7 October 1748 – Stockholm, 5 February 1818 ), was King of Sweden ( as Charles XIII ) from 1809 and King of Norway ( as Charles II ) from 1814 until his death.

# Charles XIII ( 1748 – 1818 )

The last occasion was at the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, when two British peers, Henry Bowes Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk, and Charles, 9th Baron Cathcart, were sent to France as hostages for the restitution of Cape Breton to France.

Charles IV ( Carlos Antonio Pascual Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno Jose Januario Serafin Diego ; 11 November 1748 – 20 January 1819 ) was King of Spain from 14 December 1788 until his abdication on 19 March 1808.

Charles Labelye therefore designed a new sluice for the Bedford Level Corporation, which was constructed between 1748 and 1750 and included a navigation lock.

* John Charles Brooke ( 1748 – 1794 ), FSA, Somerset Herald

* A sermon, preached before His Grace Charles Duke of Richmond, Lenox, and Aubigny, president, 1748, 1751

* Charles II of Norway also known as Charles XIII of Sweden ( 1748 – 1818 )

In 1748, High Master Charles was removed as he had allegedly threatened to " pull the Surmaster by the nose and kick him about the school.

The appointment of Mengs in 1749 as first painter to Frederick Augustus, elector of Saxony, did not prevent his spending much time in Rome, where he had married Margarita Guazzi who had sat for him as a model in 1748, and abjured the Protestant faith, and where he became in 1754 director of the Vatican school of painting, nor did this hinder him on two occasions from obeying the call of Charles III of Spain to Madrid.

Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset ( 13 August 1662 – 2 December 1748 ), sometimes referred to as the " Proud Duke ".

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

* Anne Seymour Damer ( 1748 – 1828 ), née Anne Conway, sculptor

* May 28 – Anne Seymour Damer, English sculptor ( born 1748 )