In 1746 Kippis became minister of a church at Boston ; in 1750 he moved to Dorking, Surrey ; and in 1753 he became pastor of a Presbyterian congregation at Westminster, where he remained till his death.

Roque produced engraved plans of the gardens at Wrest Park ( 1735 ), Claremont ( 1738 ), Charles Hamilton's naturalistic landscape garden at Painshill Park, Surrey ( 1744 ), Wanstead House ( 1745 ) and Wilton House ( 1746 ).

Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk ( 15 March 1746 – 16 December 1815 ), styled Earl of Surrey from 1777 to 1786, was a British peer, the son of Charles Howard, 10th Duke of Norfolk and Catherine Brockholes.

* His wife ( m. March 8, 1745 / 1746 ) Elizabeth " Betty " Harrison ( Berkeley Plantation, Charles City County (?

Lunenburg County was established on May 1, 1746, from Brunswick County.

The colonial government established Person County as part of Edgecombe County in 1746.

County designations kept changing, as it was part of Granville County from 1746 – 1752 ; included in Orange County until 1778 ; and part of Caswell County until 1791 / 1792.

The county was formed in 1746 from Craven County.

The county was formed in 1746 from Edgecombe County.

* 1746 Granville County formed from Edgecombe County

In 1746 part of Edgecombe County became Granville County ; in 1758 another portion became Halifax County ; and in 1777 yet another part became Nash County.

In 1746, in the settlement of a colonial boundary dispute between Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Tiverton was annexed to Rhode Island, along with Little Compton and what is now Newport County, Rhode Island.

Straban Township was created in 1746 when this area was still part of Lancaster County.

Gabriel and Isaac Walker were born in Lancaster County, Pa., the former in 1744, the latter in 1746.

Lunenburg County in the Southside region was established on May 1, 1746 in Great Britain's Virginia Colony from Brunswick County.

Timothy Symmes ( 1715 – 1756 ) and Mary Cleves ( died c. 1746 ) of Suffolk County, New York on Long Island.

The Grey Baronetcy, of Howick in the County of Northumberland, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain in 1746 for Henry Grey, High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1738.

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.

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.

The Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the " Bonnie Prince Charlie " of legend, were defeated at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.

His hopes to gain the Scottish and English thrones died at the Battle of Culloden in 1746

The Duke of Cumberland crushed the " Forty-Five " and the hopes of the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746.

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.

By 1746, an integrated brass mill was working at Warmley near Bristol.

* 1746 – War of Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.

On 15 April 1746, the day before the Battle of Culloden, at Dunrobin Castle, a party of the William Sutherland, 17th Earl of Sutherland ’ s militia conducted the last siege fought on the mainland of Great Britain against Jacobin members of clan MacLeod.

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.

Dashwood founded the Order of the Knights of St Francis in 1746, originally meeting at the George & Vulture.

The early years of the unified kingdom of Great Britain were marked by Jacobite risings which ended with defeat for the Stuart cause at Culloden in 1746.

* August 1 – The wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act ( Note: the actual effective date of the Dress Act was August 1, 1747, not 1746 – see the text at Dress Act ).

King Gustav III ( 1746 – 1792 ) came to the throne in 1771, and in 1772 led a coup d ' état, with French support, that established him as an " enlightened despot ," who ruled at will.

* Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer ( died 1746 ) was Kapellmeister to Ludwig Wilhelm of Baden from at least 1695.

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

Since August 1746 talks had been ongoing at the Congress of Breda to try and agree a peace settlement, but up to this point they had met with little success.

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

The Jacobites were pursued by King George II's son, the Duke of Cumberland, who caught up with them at the Battle of Culloden on 16 April 1746.

After the Jacobite army was defeated at Culloden ( 1746 ), the Murrays were put under house arrest, and William was imprisoned in the Tower.

Promoted to lieutenant colonel on 25 December 1745, he also action at the Battle of Rocoux in October 1746.

At one point, it is also mentioned that a member of the Flashman family was present at the Battle of Culloden, 1746.

At Modena he was received with much favor by the duke, and here he painted the portrait of the duke at the Modena gallery and two portraits that now adorn the Dresden gallery, for these paintings came from the Modena sale of 1746.

The suggested alternative dates have been 4 March of 1746 or 1747, and the alternative place of birth, Pułaski family manor at Winiary.