From 1746, Hume served for three years as secretary to Lieutenant-General St Clair, and wrote Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, later published as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding.

Henry Fielding wrote a pamphlet titled The Female Husband in 1746, based on the life of Mary Hamilton, who married women on three separate occasions, and was sentenced to public whipping in four separate towns and six months in jail.

In 1746 he painted actor David Garrick as Richard III, for which he was paid £ 200, “ which was more ,” he wrote, “ than any English artist ever received for a single portrait .” In the same year a sketch of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, afterwards beheaded on Tower Hill, had an exceptional success.

Historian David Chandler quotes Saxe: Chandler also states that Saxe admired the superior discipline and formations of the allies and quotes from a letter that Saxe wrote to Frederick the Great in September 1746:

Bussy wrote other things, of which the most important, his Genealogy of the Rabutin Family, remained in manuscript till 1867, while his Considerations sur la guerre was first published in Dresden in 1746.

Thomas Seward wrote further on the subject in a 1746 " sequel " to Middleton and Henry Mower ( i. e. More ).

In 1746 he wrote his much-praised " Hymn to the Naiads ", and he also became a contributor to Dodsley's Museum, or Literary and Historical Register.

* date unknown-Fray Casimiro Diaz, O. S. A., Spanish Augustinian friar historical writer, wrote Conquistas de las Islas Filipinas ( died 1746 )

But the credit for the formulation of the principle as it applies to the action is often given to Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, who wrote about it in 1744 and 1746.

Handel wrote a 1746 oratorio on the subject.

He edited the works of the two elder Bernoullis ; and wrote on the physical cause of the spheroidal shape of the planets and the motion of their apsides ( 1730 ), and on Newton's treatment of cubic curves ( 1746 ).

Bertram wrote a letter to the celebrated antiquarian William Stukeley in 1746, saying he had access to an old manuscript written by a medieval English monk named Richard of Westminster, and which contained much information on Roman Britain.

Bilderdijk had no time for the emerging new romantic style of poetry, but its fervour found its way into the Netherlands nevertheless, first of all in the person of Hiëronymus van Alphen ( 1746 – 1803 ), who today is best remembered for the verses he wrote for children.

He edited the British Magazine ( 1746 – 1750 ), and for two years ( 1751 – 1753 ) he wrote a daily letter, " The Inspector ," for the London Advertiser and Literary Gazette.

* Madame de Genlis ( 1746 – 1830 ), to Lusignan ( Albenga ) wrote Adèle et Théodore

Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (; 30 March 1746 – 16 April 1828 ) was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and the first of the moderns.

The first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment was Francis Hutcheson, who held the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1729 to 1746.

The first of these was the production of sulphuric acid by the lead chamber process invented by the Englishman John Roebuck ( James Watt's first partner ) in 1746.

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.

* April 29 – John Andrews, American clergyman, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, considered " America's first scholar " ( b. 1746 )

The first Westminster Bridge as painted by Canaletto in 1746.

* Charles Grant ( 1746 – 1823 ), administrator, chairman of the directors of the British East India Company, father of the first Lord Glenelg

A first attempt at proving the theorem was made by d ' Alembert in 1746, but his proof was incomplete.

The first French force sent against Cuddalore was surprised and defeated nearby by the forces of the Nawab and the British garrison in December 1746.

In 1746 a British combined naval and military expedition to the coast of France – the first of a long series of similar ventures which in the end were derided as " breaking windows with guineas " – was carried out during August and October.

* 1746 – Jean-Étienne Guettard presents the first mineralogical map of France to the French Academy of Sciences.

Among those canons, the eleventh and the thirteenth are a sort of first version of BWV 1077 and BWV 1076, which is included in the famous portrait of Bach painted by Elias Gottlob Haussmann in 1746.

*** Infanta Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain ( 1726 – 1746 ), first wife of above,

The notion of matriarchy was defined by Joseph-Francois Lafitau ( 1681 – 1746 ), who first named it " ginecocratie ".

The first major philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment was Francis Hutcheson, who held the chair of philosophy at the University of Glasgow from 1729 to 1746.

The name of Douglas was first given to the territory of the town in the year 1746.

In 1746 the first real shipyard was established on the Langewijk, initially only for the construction of timber flatboats, but after 1895 also for iron hull ships.

In 1746 the first real shipyard was established on the Langewijk, initially only for the construction of timber flatboats, but after 1895 also for iron hull ships.

* Count Franz von Metternich ( 1746 – 1818 ), diplomat and father of Prince Klemens, first Prince of Ochsenhausen

John Wesley visited the area five times in the mid-18th century, and the first Methodist Society was established in 1746.

His first London appearance was made in 1746 as Othello at Drury Lane.

The first historical record of the tidal bore was that made by the Croatian missionary in Spanish service Father Ferdinand Konščak on 18 July 1746.

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.

1746 also marked the purchase of land from the Wyantenock tribe by the Averill family for a homestead on Baldwin Hill, which is still occupied and farmed by direct descendants of the original inhabitants.

Merrimack was officially incorporated in 1746, a year largely regarded as Merrimack's birthday, although only the southern portion ( primarily what is known as Thornton's Ferry ) of the current boundaries of town was included in the original town, with the northern portion of what is now Merrimack ( primarily what is known as Reed's Ferry ) being added a few years later.

The original manuscript is headed " Christmas Day for Dolly ", and it was first published in Harrop's Manchester Mercury in 1746.

For example, there is a 14th century undercroft or crypt extant at Muchalls Castle in Scotland, even though the original chapel above it was destroyed in an act of war in 1746.

He had already published two original geometrical works when, in 1746, he entered J. B. Homann's cartographic establishment at Nuremberg.

Taste in High Life, original painting 1742, William Hogarth | Hogarth engraving 1746