When they sailed in April 1745, he was commander-in-chief of the expedition, supported by a British naval squadron under Captain Peter Warren, appointed Commodore on a temporary basis at the time.

In 1745 part of it was converted into a prison, and the upper rooms were used for civic functions.

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.

Volta was born in Como, Italy on 18 February 1745.

The scale was inverted in 1745 by Carl Linnaeus, one year after Celsius ' death from tuberculosis.

In 1745, a year after his death, the scale was reversed by Carl Linnaeus to facilitate more practical measurement.

The Farquharsons were Jacobite sympathisers, and James Farquharson of Balmoral was involved in both the 1715 and 1745 rebellions, and was wounded at the Battle of Falkirk in 1746.

Although Louisbourg was captured by New Englanders with British naval assistance in 1745 and by the British again in 1758, Île Royale remained formally part of colonial France until it was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Paris in 1763.

In 1745 a daughter, Angélique-Françoise, was born, but she died in 1746.

During the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion, Hume tutored the Marquis of Annandale ( 1720 – 92 ), who was officially described as a " lunatic ".

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.

The idea that even if the animal were conscious nothing would be added to the production of behavior, even in animals of the human type, was first voiced by La Mettrie ( 1745 ), and then by Cabanis ( 1802 ), and was further explicated by Hodgson ( 1870 ) and Huxley ( 1874 ).

The pastel by Liotard was sold in 1745 by Algarotti to Dresden.

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 ).

Francis was a son of the future Emperor Leopold II ( 1747 – 1792 ) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain ( 1745 – 1792 ), daughter of Charles III of Spain.

It was recorded as being sung in London theatres in 1745, with, for example, Thomas Arne writing a setting of the tune for the Drury Lane Theatre.

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.

In 1745, when he was 16, Cook moved to the fishing village of Staithes, to be apprenticed as a shop boy to grocer and haberdasher William Sanderson.

Educated at Wolverhampton Grammar School, he was apprenticed in 1779 to Sir Charles Blicke ( 1745 – 1815 ), a surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London.

It was invented independently by German cleric Ewald Georg von Kleist on 11 October 1745 and by Dutch scientist Pieter van Musschenbroek of Leiden ( Leyden ) in 1745 – 1746.

It was a tale of the Jacobite rising of 1745.

It lies at a distance of about 13, 000 light-years from Earth and was first discovered by the French astronomer Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in the year 1745 or 1746.

Repeated hat-raising was impractical if heavy helmets or hats with chinstraps ( such as shakos and bearskins ) were worn, so from about 1745 the gesture was stylised to a mere hand movement.

The first building used by Friedens Church was made of logs in 1745 and served for 25 years.

In 1746 the Surrey County Gallows at the southern end of the Common was used for the execution of nine leaders of the Jacobite rebellion of 1745.

* Saint-Pierre College was erected in 1745 where an ancient Gothique church used to stand, having been destroyed by fire.

* Account of New England vessels used against Louisbourg in 1745

After serving in home waters learning about convoy protection he was appointed to the newly built Ludlow Castle which he used to blockade the Scottish coast during the Jacobite Rebellion in 1745.

Though commonly used in the 17th century, in the 18th century, the office was held by Duke of Marlborough ( 1702 to 1711, and again 1714 to 1717 ), and the Duke of Ormonde, 1711 to 1714 and the Duke of Cumberland 1745.

They were a significant innovation in naval gunnery and were first used by the Royal Navy in 1745.

The George Inn, in Iron Gate, Derby was a coaching inn used by the Duke of Devonshire as his headquarters when commanding the Derbyshire Blues, in readiness for the invasion by Charles Edward Stuart ( Bonnie Prince Charlie ) in 1745.

The term was first used by Linnaeus in the title of his 1745 work Fauna Suecica.

Kilchurn was then used as a Government garrison during the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite risings.

However, after a composite Irish detachment from the French Army ( drawn from each of the regiments comprising the Irish Brigade and designated as " Irish Picquets ") was used to support the Jacobite Rising of 1745 in Scotland, the British realised the dangers of this policy and banned recruitment for foreign armies in Ireland.

In 1745 the Russian Navy had 130 sailing vessels, including 36 ships of the line, 9 frigates, 3 shnyavas ( шнява — a light two-mast ship used for reconnaissance and messenger services ), 5 bombardier ships and 77 auxiliary vessels.

In 1745 Moll used the name Lady Isle.

The company was, however, too successful, and the Opéra refused to renew Monnet's privilege in 1745.

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.

The use of " he " to refer to a person of unknown gender was prescribed by manuals of style and school textbooks from the early 18th century until around the 1960s, an early example of which is Anne Fisher's 1745 grammar book " A New Grammar ".

On June 6, 1745, a number of Parsis in and around Surat adopted the calendar which had continued in use of Iran, now to be identified as the Qadimi reckoning.

In 1745 they adopted guns from the British to use to defeat and push the Dakota nation of the Sioux to the south.

The use of " he " to refer to a person of unknown gender was often prescribed by manuals of style and school textbooks from the early 18th century until around the 1960s, an early example of which is Anne Fisher's 1745 grammar book " A New Grammar ".

Auchindryne ( to use the spelling by Wyness ) from ach ' an droighinn ( field of the thorn ) belonged to a branch of the Farquharsons until it was forfeited in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.

The most recent known use was in 1745, during the Jacobite Rising and was subsequently described in the novels and poetry of Walter Scott.

The final and least successful use of the Highland charge was in 1746 during the final confrontation of the 1745 Jacobite Rising, the Battle of Culloden.

The most recent known use there was in 1745, during the Jacobite Rising.

An arch bridge he build in Thionville, Moselle between 1745 and 1746, named Cormontaigne Bridge after him, is still in use today.