The parti philosophique was supported by the marquise de Pompadour, who acted as a sort of minister without portfolio from the time she became royal mistress in 1745 until her death in 1764.

Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour ( 29 December 1721 – 15 April 1764, ) was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death.

In 1745, a group of courtiers, including her father-in-law, promoted her acquaintance with the monarch, who was still mourning the death of his third official mistress, the duchesse de Châteauroux.

In December 1745, after a romp with Dolly, he promised to write her something for Christmas ; it was to be written especially for her, and no one else.

Attempts by Maria Theresa to regain the crown land in the Second Silesian War ( 1744 – 1745 ) failed and she ultimately had to relinquish her claims by the Treaty of Dresden.

It was Evreinov, in the service of Empress Elisabeth, who squarely warned around the period 1745 – 1746 the 16-year-old German-born married lady Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg, later Dowager Empress Catherine II of Russia, about the rumours about her at the Imperial Court, then, candid and innocent mixings with the Tchernysov siblings, particularly Zakhar, the eldest.

She divided her property, for that time a large one, between her natural sons, the first by Arthur Mainwaring ( 1668 – 1712 ) who had left her and his son half his fortune on his death and the second by Lieutenant-General Charles Churchill ( d. 1745 ).

Louise d ' Épinay was born at the fortress of Valenciennes, where her father, Tardieu d ' Esclavelles, a brigadier of infantry, was commanding officer ; after he was killed in battle when she was nine, she was sent to Paris in the care of an aunt who was married to Louis-Denis de La Live de Bellegarde, an immensely wealthy fermier-général, a collector-general of taxes ; treated to the stultifying education that was a girl's lot, in 1745 she married her cousin Denis Joseph de La Live d ' Épinay, who was made a fermier-général.

The enlightened fermier-général Le Normant de Tournehem was the legal guardian of Mme de Pompadour, responsible for her careful education ; in turn, thanks to her influence he was made directeur général of the Bâtiments du Roi in December 1745, and held the post, overseeing royal building works, until his death.

* Lady Louisa Conolly ( 1743 – 1821 ), wife of Tom Conolly and her sister Sarah Napier ( 1745 – 1826 ), wife of George Napier, both daughters of Charles Lennox, 2nd Duke of Richmond.

Pininski's book suggests that Jules-Hercule, Prince de Guéméné and Duke of Montbazon, elder brother of Ferdinand de Rohan ( and aide de camp to Henry Stuart in 1745 ) recognised Charlotte's offspring as his own – thus giving her status in that tight family.

She was one of four children, and her father was the famous Ambjørn Giers who was born 1670 in Gøteborg, Sweden, and died 1745.

The rule given to Marguerite d ' Youville and her companions by the Sulpician priest, Father Louis Normant de Faradon, P. S. S, in 1745 received episcopal sanction in 1754, when Monseigneur de Pontbriant formed the society into an official religious community.

The original sank off Gothenburg, Sweden on 12 September 1745 while approaching its home harbour after returning from her third voyage to China.

The Dyhrns had a palace built already in 17th century, which stayed in their possession till the early 1780s, when the palace ( then owned by Count Wilhelm von Dyhrn ) was sold to Baroness Antoinette von Dyhrn ( 1745 – 1820 ) and her husband, the famous Prussian minister Karl Georg von Hoym, with whom she modernized the palace and the park according to plans of Carl Gotthard Langhans.

In 1745 during the Jacobite rising she vented her Whiggism in a squib upon Bonnie Prince Charlie, and narrowly escaped being taken by the Highland guard as she was driving through Edinburgh in the family coach of the Keiths of Ravelston, with the parody in her pocket.

* Lady Sarah Lennox ( 14 February 1745 – August 1826 ), married first Sir Charles Bunbury, 6th Baronet, and had issue ( although not by her husband, but by Lord William Gordon ); and secondly George Napier by whom she had issue.

In 1745, Horatio Gates obtained a military commission with financial help from his parents, and political support from the Duke of Bolton.

Vorontsov's parents were Roman Larionovich Vorontsov ( 1717 – 1783 ) and Marfa Ivanovna Surmina ( 1718 – 1745 ).

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

Before the widower William Randolph, an old friend of Peter Jefferson, died in 1745, he appointed Peter as guardian to manage his Tuckahoe Plantation and care for his four children.

* November 30, 1667 ( in Dublin, Ireland )- Johnathon Swift-Praised satyrist who lived in Ireland most of his life. He was most famous for writing Gullivers Travels in 1726. He also wrote A Tale of a Tub from 1694-1697. It was finally published in 1704. He died in 1745.

His health, never good, deteriorated rapidly toward the end of 1744 ; Lord Orford died in London in 1745, aged nearly sixty-nine years ; he was buried in his home estate of Houghton.

# Prince Carlo Francesco Maria Augusto of Savoy, Duke of Aosta ( 1738 – 1745 ) died in childhood ;

Most prominent among those were Jacob Rodrigues Rivera ( died 1789 ), who arrived in 1745, and Aaron Lopez, who came in 1750.

:* George Pelham-Clinton, Lord Clinton ( 1745 – 1752 ), eldest son of the 2nd Duke, died young

The Countess Granville died on 7 October 1745, leaving one daughter Sophia, who married William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, later 1st Marquess of Lansdowne.

* Gaspard-Louis de Bourbon, count of Châlus, been born on May 16, 1745, died in Bets December 8, 1751 is interred in the cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris.

Ormonde died in exile on 16 November 1745, and was buried in Westminster Abbey on 22 May 1746.

Middleton's second wife Mary died in 1745, and he returned to controversial theology in 1747.

Conyers Place of Dorchester, who died 26 April 1745, aged 38 ;

When Louis died in 1745, Jean-Jacques, who had by then served for fifteen years as a general advocate at the court, although expected to succeed him in turn, was not yet old enough to be awarded the position, and had to wait until early 1747 to take over its presidency.

His father remarried, but his stepmother, Elizabeth North, also died in 1745, when Frederick was thirteen.

* date unknown-Hedvig Catharina Lillie, Swedish salonist ( died 1745 )

* probable-William Meston, poet ( died 1745 )

* January 24-Christian Wolff ( philosopher ) ( died 1745 )

* November 30 – Jonathan Swift, satirist and novelist ( died 1745 )

His eldest sister, born in 1745, had died when six months old.

* Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn ( 1745 – 1790 ), fourth son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, died without issue.

* Henry Scudamore, 3rd Duke of Beaufort ( 1707 – 1745 ), eldest son of the 2nd Duke, died without issue

*** John Scott, Lord Scott of Whitchester ( 1745 – 1748 ), eldest son of Lord Dalkeith, died young

In 1745, Henry Thurston, a local man who left to make his fortune in London, died, leaving a bequest to set up a school in the village.

* William Scott, Lord Stowell ( 1745 – 1836 ; Tory ; MP for Oxford University, lived at Erleigh Court from 1828 died there on 28th Jan 1836 )

He died at Paris on 8 December 1745.