* 1686 – Jean-Joseph Fiocco, Flemish ( Belgian ) composer ( d. 1746 )

* 1809 – Joseph Quesnel, French-Canadian composer and playwright ( b. 1746 )

* 1746 – William Billings, American composer ( d. 1800 )

The story was later adapted into a five-act tragic opera, Scylla et Glaucus ( 1746 ), by the French composer Jean-Marie Leclair.

* September 26 – William Billings, American choral composer ( b. 1746 )

William Billings ( b. Boston, October 7, 1746 – d. Boston, September 26, 1800 ) was an American choral composer, and is widely regarded as the father of American choral music .< ref >

Canada's first wildly published sheet music are two operas written in late 18th century by New France composer, poet, and playwright Joseph Quesnel ( 1746 – 1809 ).

* April – Emerico Lobo de Mesquita, organist, conductor, composer and music teacher ( b. 1746 )

* July 3 – Joseph Quesnel, composer and writer ( born 1746 )

* April 8 – Venanzio Rauzzini, castrato singer, composer, pianist and teacher ( born 1746 )

* date unknown – Christian Benjamin Uber, amateur musician and composer ( b. 1746 )

* June 30 – Ernst Ludwig Gerber, composer and compiler of a dictionary of musicians ( b. 1746 )

* October 3 – Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, horn player and composer ( b. 1746 )

* probable – Giuseppe Cambini, violinist and composer ( b. 1746 )

** James Hook, composer ( b. 1746 )

* September 26 – William Billings, America's first major composer ( b. 1746 )

His father, James Hook ( 1746 – 1827 ), was a composer of popular songs ; his elder brother, also James Hook, became Dean of Worcester.

Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer ( some authorities use the spelling Johann Kasper Ferdinand Fischer ) ( 9 September 1656 – 27 August 1746 ) was a German Baroque composer.

Joseph Quesnel ( 15 November 1746 – 3 July 1809 ) was a French Canadian composer, poet, and playwright.

Ernst Ludwig Gerber ( September 29, 1746 in Sondershausen, Germany – June 30, 1819 in Sondershausen ) was a German composer and author of a famous dictionary of musicians.

* 1746 – George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral ( d. 1823 )

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

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.

Among the several 18th-century buildings remaining are a Friends ' meetinghouse ( 1788 ), the Martine house ( 1717 ), and the Nathaniel Drake House ( 1746 ), known as George Washington's headquarters.

Other notable churches include St Matthew-built by George Dance the Elder in 1746.

In 1751 – 1752, a new Military Road was built by General George Wade in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1746.

King George II, thwarted in his own favourite schemes, made overtures in 1746 to Lord Bath, but his purpose was upset by the resignation of the two Pelhams ( Henry and Newcastle ), who, after a two-day hiatus in which Bath and Carteret ( now earl Granville ) proved unable to form a ministry, resumed office at the king's request.

In a similar manner, the Dress Act of 1746, part of the Act of Proscription issued under George II of the United Kingdom following the Jacobite Risings, made wearing Scottish Highland Dress including tartans and kilts illegal in Scotland for anyone not in the British military.

George and Ann Taylor had two children: a daughter Ann, who was called Nancy and died sometime during childhood, and a son James, who was born at Warwick Furnace in 1746.

He served part of his time as midshipman with George Brydges Rodney on the Ludlow, and became a lieutenant in 1746.

In 1746 he returned to Britain, and from then to 1780, when he was made rear-admiral, he saw active service in the East Indies with Sir George Pocock and in various quarters of the world.

Henry Grenville ( governor of Barbados in 1746 and ambassador to the Ottoman Porte in 1762 ), a younger brother of the 1st Earl Temple and of George Grenville.

Hindman's paternal lineage descended from the Carmichael clan in Scotland, some members of which made their way into America after King George II of Great Britain ousted nine hundred Scottish followers of Bonnie Prince Charles to America after the April 16, 1746 Battle of Culloden.

* George Greville, 2nd Earl of Warwick, 2nd Earl Brooke ( 1746 – 1816 )

* George Manners ( c. 1746 – 1772 )

He married, on 16 October 1735, Rebecca Samborne Le Bas ( died 16 January 1765 ), daughter and heiress of Charles Samborne Le Bas, of Pipewell Abbey, Northamptonshire, by whom he had two daughters, Lady Elizabeth ( 18 June 1739-21 January 1811, buried at Hartwell ), married on 20 June 1763 Sir William Lee, 4th Baronet, of Hartwell ( 12 September 1726-6 July 1799 ) and Lady Anne ( 1741 – 1746 ), and two sons, George Simon and William, who succeeded him as 2nd and 3rd earl respectively.

Although there are earlier hints ( such as a fragmentary speech by St George from Exeter, Devon, which may date from 1737, although published in 1770 ), the earliest complete text appears to be an undated chapbook of Alexander and the King of Egypt, published by John White ( d. 1769 ) in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1746 and 1769.

* George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie ( c. 1703 – 1766 ) ( forfeit in 1746 )

* George Harris, 1st Baron Harris ( 1746 – 1829 )

Joseph ’ s sons, Joseph Cabot Jr. ( b. 1746 in Salem ), George Cabot ( b. 1752 in Salem ), and Samuel Cabot ( b. 1758 in Salem ), left Harvard to work their way through shipping, furthering the family fortune and becoming extraordinarily wealthy.

In 1762, Grey married Elizabeth Grey ( 1744 – 1822 ), the daughter of George Grey of Southwick ( 1713 – 1746 ), their children were:

The second son, George, born 1746, succeeded his father as Earl of Dorchester.

* George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, 1st Baron Keith ( 1746 – 1823 )

* George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, 1st Baron Keith ( 1746 – 1823 )