* 1745 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal ( d. 1813 )

* April 28 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal ( b. 1745 )

* October 11 – Kazimierz Pułaski, Veteran commander of Polish, Russian, and American troops ( b. 1745 )

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

From the 17th to the 19th century, Hilandar was predominantly Bulgarian-populated: in his account of 1745, the Russian pilgrim Vasily Barsky writes that the monks of Hilandar were all Bulgarians.

Johann Anton Güldenstädt ( 26 April 1745 in Riga, Latvia – 23 March 1781 in St. Petersburg, Russia ) was a Baltic German naturalist and explorer in Russian service.

Levin August Gottlieb Theophil (), Count von Bennigsen ( 10 February 1745 in Braunschweig – 3 December 1826 in Banteln ) was a German general in the service of the Russian Empire.

In 1745 princess Sophie Auguste Friederike von Anhalt-Zerbst married Peter III, successor to the Russian throne.

* Johann Anton Güldenstädt ( 1745, Riga – 1781, St. Petersburg ), Baltic German Russian naturalist

The Russian naval officer and historian Vasily Berch believed that Yemelyan Basov reached this island in 1745, during his second of four expeditions to the Commander Islands between 1743 and 1749, and that most of the furs he brought back to Kamchatka in 1745 were hunted on this island.

He had four sons, Ambjørn Giers ( 1670, 1745 ), Nils Giers ( 1674, 1725 ), Eric Giers ( 1678, 1737 ) and he who is one of the fathers of the Russian branch Lorentz Giers ( 1680, 1733 ).

Akinfiy Nikitich Demidov () ( 1678 – 5 August 1745 ) was a Russian industrialist of the Demidov family.

He was elected to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1745.

The Order of Kutuzov () is a military decoration of the Russian Federation named after famous Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov ( 1745 – 1813 ).

The most significant incident was the capture of the French Fortress Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island ( Île Royale ) by an expedition ( 29 April – 16 June 1745 ) of colonial militia organized by Massachusetts Governor William Shirley, commanded by William Pepperrell of Maine ( then part of Massachusetts ), and assisted by a Royal Navy fleet.

), she obtained from the king the appointment of ministers ( Bernis, secretary of state for foreign affairs, in 1757 ), as well as their dismissal ( Orry, controller-general of finances, in 1745 ; Maurepas, secretary of state for the Navy, in 1749 ).

* John Barry ( naval officer ) ( 1745 – 1803 ), an officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy

Despite the absence of support from the Royal Navy, the New England expedition set out in March 1745 for Louisbourg.

* William Mitchell ( Royal Navy officer ) ( c. 1745 – 1816 ), Royal Navy admiral

In the aftermath of the Jacobite Rising of 1745 a Royal Navy vessel arrived on 3 April 1746.

* Capt Hoysted Hacker ( 1745 – 1814 ), Continental Navy captain

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

# John Spotswood ( 1725-6 May 1756 ), who married in 1745 Mary Dandridge ( a cousin of Martha Washington ), daughter of William Dandridge, Esq., of Elsing Green, King William Co., Va, a Captain in the British Navy.

The North America and West Indies Station was a formation or command of the United Kingdom's Royal Navy stationed in North American waters from 1745 until the 1956.

The Elisabeth, carrying weapons, supplies and 700 volunteers from the Irish Brigade, encountered the British Navy ship HMS Lion and with both ships badly damaged in the ensuing battle the Elisabeth was forced back, but the Du Teillay successfully landed Charles with his seven men of Moidart on the island of Eriskay in the Outer Hebrides on 2 August 1745.

* Richard Edwards ( Royal Navy officer ) (?– 1773 ), Commodore for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador for 1745

In his Essay Upon Several Subjects Concerning British Antiquities, written just after the Jacobite rising of 1745 he described how the politics of Scotland were not based on loyalty to Kings or Queens as Jacobites had said but on royal land grants given in return for loyalty.

Walpole had carefully orchestrated this new government as a continuance of his own, and continued to advise it up to his death in 1745.

Frederick II had abandoned his French ally during the War of Austrian Succession, signing a separate peace treaty with Austria in December 1745.

When Philidor left Paris, in 1745, although he had for some time been playing even games with M. de Legal ... he had not ceased to recognize his old master as still his master and superior.

In May 1745, Le Breton announced the work as available for sale, but to his dismay, Mills had not done the work he was commissioned to do ; in fact, he could barely read and write French and did not even own a copy of Cyclopaedia.

Matinicus was first settled in 1750 by a squatter, Ebenezer Hall, who had served as a lieutenant during the 1745 Battle of Louisburg.

Settled in 1761, the town was originally named " New Breton ," having been granted primarily to soldiers who had taken part in the 1745 capture of Cape Breton during hostilities with the French in Canada.

The Young Pretender had his headquarters here during a 3-day sojourn in Dumfries towards the end of 1745.

This opponent comprised Britain, the Dutch Republic, Austria, and Saxony, who had concluded the defensive Treaty of Warsaw in January 1745 – the Quadruple Alliance – by which all contractants committed themselves to uphold the Pragmatic Sanction and the House of Austria's claim to the Imperial crown.

In 2007, on the 400th anniversary of his death, the cause for his canonization, which had been stalled since 1745, was reopened by the Procurator General of the Oratory of St Philip Neri.

In 1745, owing to his knowledge of Gaelic, he gained appointment as deputy chaplain of the 43rd ( afterwards the 42nd ) regiment ( the Black Watch ), the licence to preach being granted him by special dispensation, although he had not completed the required six years of theological study.

In October 1745, Wolfe's regiment was urgently recalled to Britain to deal with the Jacobite rising which had broken out.

In a pamphlet of " Remarks " ( 1742 ), he replied to John Tillard, and Remarks on Several Occasional Reflections ( 1744 – 1745 ) was an answer to Akenside, Conyers Middleton ( who had been his friend ), Richard Pococke, Nicholas Mann, Richard Grey, Henry Stebbing and other of his critics.

In 1715, he had been a supporter of the House of Hanover, but in 1745 he changed sides and supported the Stuart claim on the crown of the United Kingdom.

In 1744, he had been very busy assisting in the negotiations for the establishment of the new " broad bottom " administration, and showed no sympathy for the Jacobite expedition in 1745.

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 he published a collection of his dramatic works, and some poems which had been issued separately, in one volume under the modest title of Trifles.

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.

It was never fully completed, but Swedenborg still had it published in London in June 1745.

From 1745, when he considered himself to have entered a spiritual state, he tended to phrase his " experiences " in empirical terms, claiming to report accurately things he had experienced on his spiritual journeys.

His father, Thomas Poor had been part of the 1745 expedition that captured Louisburg, Nova Scotia, during King George's War.

Moreover, the Jacobitism of the non-jurors provoked a state policy of repression in 1715 and 1745, and fostered the growth of new Hanoverian congregations, using the English Prayer Book, ( served by clergy who had been ordained by a bishop but amenable to none ) who qualified themselves under the Act of 1712.

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