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

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 )

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

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

* Claude Louis Berthollet, 1748 – 1822

Daughter of the wealthy tax-collector Louis Denis Lalive de Bellegarde and his wife Marie Josèphe Prouveur, Sophie married Claude Constant César, Comte d ' Houdetot, an army brigadier, at the Saint-Roch church in Paris on 28 February 1748.

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

Authors include Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon ( Les Égarements du cœur et de l ' esprit, 1736 ; Le Sopha, conte moral, 1742 ), Denis Diderot ( Les bijoux indiscrets, 1748 ), Marquis de Sade ( L ' Histoire de Juliette, 1797-1801 ), Choderlos de Laclos ( Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1782 ), John Wilmot ( Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery, 1684 ).

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

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 ?).

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

However, at the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, Louis agreed to restore all his conquests to Austria.

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

He was highly demanding and bad-tempered, unable to maintain longstanding partnerships with his librettists, with the exception of Louis de Cahusac, who collaborated with him on several operas, including Les fêtes de l ' Hymen et de l ' Amour ( 1747 ), Zaïs ( 1748 ), Naïs ( 1749 ), Zoroastre ( 1749 ; revised 1756 ), La naissance d ' Osiris ( 1754 ), and Anacréon ( the first of Rameau's operas by that name, 1754 ).

Portrait of King Louis XV 1710 – 74 1748 by Maurice Quentin de La Tour.

But his reputation must have been good, for he was made chevalier de Saint Louis in 1748.

* Louis François Armand du Plessis, duc de Richelieu ( 1696 – 1788 ), Marshal of France in 1748

Actually, their forerunners were civil servant schools aimed at graduating mine supervisors ( École des mines de Paris established in 1783 ), bridge and road engineers ( École royale des ponts et chaussées established in 1747 ), shipbuilding engineers ( École des ingénieurs-constructeurs des vaisseaux royaux established in 1741 ) and five military engineering academies and graduate schools of artillery established in the 17th century in France, such as the école de l ' artillerie de Douai ( established in 1697 ) and the école du génie de Mézière ( established in 1748 ), wherein mathematics, chemistry and sciences were already a major part of the curriculum taught by first rank scientists such as Pierre-Simon de Laplace, Charles Étienne Louis Camus, Étienne Bézout, Sylvestre-François Lacroix, Siméon Denis Poisson, Gaspard Monge.

Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot ( 10 May 1748, Yvetot-1831, Rouen ) was a French ornithologist.

* November 6-Claude Louis Berthollet, chemist ( born 1748 )

Born in Paris, Mathieu de Montomorency was the son of Mathieu Paul Louis de Montmorency, vicomte de Laval ( 1748 – 1809 ), a scion of one of the oldest noble families in France, and his wife, Catherine Jeanne Tavernier de Boullongne ( d. 1838 ), the daughter of an aristocratic French planter in Guadeloupe.

* Louis Mancini ( 1748 – 1748 ), died in infancy ;

* March 19 – Louis Masreliez, Swedish painter and interior designer ( born 1748 )

* Princess Marie-Thérèse of France ( 1746 – 1748 ) eldest daughter of Louis, Dauphin of France ( 1729 – 1765 ) and his first wife Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain ( 1726 – 1746 ).

Vincent de Bourbon, great grandson of Louis XIV, was Count of Guingamp from 1748 till his death in 1755.

* Pierre Grimod du Fort ( 1692 — 1748 ) was a fermier général and art collector under Louis XV,