1746: A Sulphuric acid factory is set up at Steelhouse Lane to use the lead chamber process invented by its co-founder John Roebuck, Roebuck and local businessman Samuel Garbett later relocate to Prestonpans in Scotland, taking with them several skilled men from the Birmingham factory, it is here in 1762 where Roebuck takes out a patent for making malleable iron.

The British Linen Company, established in 1746, was the largest firm in the Scottish linen industry in the 18th century, exporting linen to England and America.

On the northern border, Berwick-upon-Tweed, which is north of the Tweed but had changed hands many times, was defined as subject to the laws of England by the Wales and Berwick Act 1746.

He returned to England in 1746 at the age of fourteen to attend grammar school at Bury St Edmunds.

Following the Jacobites retreat from England, they returned to Stirling in January 1746.

The obverse has a left-facing bust of the king ( with an older head from 1746 ), with the legend, while the reverse features a single large crowned shield with the quarters containing the arms of England + Scotland, France, Hanover, and Ireland, and the legend — King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

Prior to 1746 it was not clear whether a reference to " England " in legislation included Wales, and so in 1746 Parliament passed the Wales and Berwick Act.

The Welsh Language Act 1967 formally dissolved the legislation which provided that references made in Parliament to England automatically included Wales, under the Wales and Berwick Act of 1746.

Although maintained after Scotland's monarchs left for England in 1603, the palace was little used, and was burned out in 1746.

In 1746 he once more visited England, and collated Syriac manuscripts for his great work.

While serving on the North American station he was moved into the 50-gun and returned to England with her in late 1746.

Sir Thomas Brown ( 1705 – 1746 ) was born in Kirkleatham, in present day Redcar and Cleveland, England.

– 2 October 1746 ) was Secretary of the Admiralty in England, a position he held for almost fifty years ( 26 September 1694-14 October 1742 ).

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The first Barbours in Newfoundland, George ( 1746 – 1818 ) and Joseph ( 1751 – 1818 ) Barbour, came from England, arrived in Greenspond sometime prior to 1792, and later settled on Cobbler's Island after 1809.

Samuel Scott was the best of the native marine and townscape artists, though in the latter specialization he could not match the visiting Canaletto, who was in England from nine years from 1746, and whose Venetian views were a favourite souvenir of the Grand Tour.

Wales was effectively annexed to the Kingdom of England in the 16th century by the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 – 1542, but references to ' England ' in law were not presumed to include Wales ( or indeed Berwick-upon-Tweed ) until the Wales and Berwick Act 1746.

The collector, consisting of a series of metal points, was added to the machine by Benjamin Wilson about 1746, and in 1762, John Canton of England ( also the inventor of the first pith-ball electroscope ) improved the efficiency of electric machines by sprinkling an amalgam of tin over the surface of the rubber.

Among them was the male soprano Venanzio Rauzzini ( 1746 – 1810 ), friend of Haydn and Dr Charles Burney, who after a period at Vienna and Munich settled in England in c. 1774 and was the teacher of the young Nancy Storace.

He was in England between 1746 and 1750, attending Westminster School.

He was baptised on 29 September 1746 at St. George's Church, St. George Street, Hanover Square, London, England.

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.

A detail from John Rocque's 1746 map of London.

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

* October 26 – John Peter Zenger, newspaper printer ( d. 1746 )

An extract from John Rocque's map of London, 1746, showing Northumberland House.

* 1746 John Stevens

Map of London Wall, Moorgate, Moorfields and Bethlem Royal Hospital from John Rocque's Map of London, dated 1746.

John Rocque's map of circa 1746 shows the village of Kingsland centred around the crossroads at Dalston Junction and the small village of Dalston further east along Dalston Lane.

As John Orr notes, " The fact that a seventh edition was issued in the year 1746 indicates something of the popularity and influence of the book.

On his recovery from illness in 1746, he joined his elder brother John as apprentice to his father.

* John Lambert ( 1746 – 1823 ), politician and namesake of Lambertville.

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

Reformist politicians such as Henry Grattan ( 1746 – 1820 ), Wolfe Tone ( 1763 – 1798 ), Robert Emmet ( 1778 – 1803 ), Sir John Gray ( 1815-1875 ), and Charles Stewart Parnell ( 1846 – 1891 ), were also Protestant nationalists, and in large measure led and defined Irish nationalism.

A 1746 portrait of Conyers Middleton by John Giles Eccardt.

This series was written by William Guthrie, Samuel Johnson, and John Hawkesworth, and was printed in Edward Cave's periodical The Gentleman's Magazine from 1738 to 1746.

Rush was born to John and Susanna Harvey Rush on January 4, 1746 ( December 24, 1745 O. S .).

* John Penn (" the American ") ( 1700 – 1746 ), son of William Penn

Detail of the 1746 John Rocque | Rocque map showing the newly constructed Serpentine.

Legal Quays between Billingsgate Dock and the Tower of London in John Rocque's plan of 1746.

* John Lambert ( politician ) ( 1746 – 1823 ), U. S. senator from and Acting Governor of New Jersey

By 1746 John Tyzack was using it for grinding scythes, in 1797 Thomas Biggin was making knives for cutting hay and straw, and it was being used as a sickle mill in 1805.

John Rocque shows the road very clearly on his large scale map of 1746, however the names have changed again.

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* John Barnes ( British Army officer ) ( 1746 – 1810 ), British Army officer and Canadian politician

John James ( c. 1673-15 May 1746 ) was a British architect particularly associated with Twickenham in west London, where he rebuilt St. Mary's Church and built the house for Hon.