Empress Maria Theresa of Austria was supported by the Croatians in the War of Austrian Succession of 1741 – 1748 and subsequently made significant contributions to Croatian matters.

The only available red fabric dye in 1748 was made of madder root, which can be processed to produce a brilliant red dye ( used historically for British soldiers ' jackets ).

Early in 1748 he was rescued by a sea captain who had been asked by Newton's father to search for him, he made it to freedom.

The war in the West Indies, after two other unsuccessful attacks had been made on Spanish territory, died down and did not revive till 1748.

Although originally developed in England since 1748 to compete with imported porcelain, bone china is now made worldwide.

The two principal sources from which Lavater developed his physiognomical studies were the writings of the Italian polymath Giambattista della Porta, and the observations made by Sir Thomas Browne in his Religio Medici ( translated into German in 1748 and praised by Lavater ).

But his reputation must have been good, for he was made chevalier de Saint Louis in 1748.

During the summer of 1748 Newcastle made his first ever trip outside Britain when he visited Hanover, and was received with a rapturous reception wherever he went.

In 1748 he was made a Baron of the Kingdom of Prussia, an honour which he received Royal license to use in Great Britain, and in 1756 the barony of Hyde held by his wife's ancestors was revived when he was raised to the Peerage of Great Britain as Baron Hyde, of Hindon in the County of Wiltshire.

After having been an official in the household of Frederick, Prince of Wales, Lord Halifax was made Master of the Buckhounds, and in 1748 he became President of the Board of Trade.

He did not dare to travel back to France on a French merchant ship because France was at war ( the Austrian Succession War of 1740 – 1748 ) and he had to wait for five months for a Dutch ship, but made good use of his waiting time by observing and recording physical, biological, and ethnological phenomena.

On the basis of the data obtained, Konščak made a precise map of Baja California ( 1748 ) and a map of the Gulf of California ( around 1750 ).

The duke was later taken prisoner in ( 1746 ) and was made a maréchal de camp in 1748.

Escaping to France, he served with Marshal Saxe in the Low Countries, and at the capture of Maastricht ( 1748 ) was made a maréchal de camp.

In 1748 he was responsible for the visit made by George II of Great Britain to his university.

Queen Maria Theresa was supported by the Croatians in the War of Austrian Succession of 1741 – 1748 and she subsequently made significant contributions to Croatian matters.

The second Marquess was reinstated in 1722, and on the death of the third Marquess in 1748, Powis was inherited by his Protestant kinsman, Henry Arthur Herbert of Oakly Park, Ludlow, who was made Earl of Powis by George II.

He distinguished himself in the War of the Polish Succession ( 1733 – 1738 ) and was made a marshal of France in 1734, becoming dean of the marshals in 1748.

In 1748 he was made professor extraordinary at the academy of Sorø, where he died on the 13th of August 1749.

In 1748 Uz was appointed unpaid secretary to the Justizcollegium, an office he held for twelve years ; in 1763 he became assessor to the imperial court of justice at Nuremberg, in 1790 was made a judge.

* De la Tour's pastels at the Musée l ' Écuyer, Saint-Quentin, ( in French ) the pastel illustrated above described as a study for one of four portraits de la Tour made of the Dauphin ( according to a letter of the Marquis de Marigny ), of which the only known survivor, at the Louvre is dated 1748.

The first development of what would become known as bone china was made by Thomas Frye at his Bow porcelain factory near Bow in East London in 1748.

The reports on the finances and general condition of the country, which he drew up for the new king on his accession, and again after peace was made with Britain at Aix-la-Chapelle on October 18, 1748, are very able and clear-sighted.

In 1748, he was made a Knight of the Thistle.

* George Frideric Handel, Joshua ( 1748 )

In 1748, George Washington, then just 16 years old, was part of the survey party the surveyed the Eastern Panhandle region for Lord Fairfax.

In 1748, George Washington, then just sixteen years old, surveyed present-day Berkeley County for Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.

George Mason became a Vestryman in 1748, as did George Washington in 1763.

It was named for George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, President of the Board of Trade from 1748 to 1761.

* George Turnbull ( 1698 – 1748 ), theologian, philosopher and writer on education

* Fort George, Scotland, the buildings within the fort were designed by William Adam, after his death his sons oversaw completion ( 1748 – 69 )

The Van Allen House was built in 1748 and was a stop for George Washington and his troops in 1777.

In 1748, Lord Fairfax met a 16 year-old George Washington, a distant relative of his.

In 1748, George Washington, then just 16 years old, was part of the survey party that surveyed the Eastern Panhandle region for Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.

* George Smith ( Scottish clergyman ) ( 1748 – 1843 ), minister in Galston, East Ayrshire

King George II in the Pauliner Church in 1748

** George FitzGerald, Earl of Offaly ( 1748 – 1765 ), eldest son of the 1st Marquess

* George Wade ( 1673 – 1748 ), British military commander

Those holding this view include: 1600s: Sussex Baptists d. 1612: Edward Wightman 1627: Samuel Gardner 1628: Samuel Przypkowski 1636: George Wither 1637: Joachim Stegmann 1624: Richard Overton 1654: John Biddle ( Unitarian ) 1655: Matthew Caffyn 1658: Samuel Richardson 1608 – 1674: John Milton 1588 – 1670: Thomas Hobbes 1605 – 1682: Thomas Browne 1622 – 1705: Henry Layton 1702: William Coward 1632 – 1704: John Locke 1643 – 1727: Isaac Newton 1676 – 1748: Pietro Giannone 1751: William Kenrick 1755: Edmund Law 1759: Samuel Bourn 1723 – 1791: Richard Price 1718 – 1797: Peter Peckard 1733 – 1804: Joseph Priestley Francis Blackburne ( 1765 ) ( 1765 ).

He retained the office of Master of the Horse under George I till 1716, when he was dismissed and retired into private life ; he died at Petworth on 2 December 1748.

* George Mackay, 3rd Lord Reay ( 1678 – 1748 )

* George Forrester, 6th Lord Forrester ( 1724 – 1748 )

For example, in Tobias George Smollett's The Adventures of Roderick Random, which was published in 1748, the eponymous hero is taking a coach to Bath and apprehends a highwayman.

In May 1748 he was appointed by the archbishop-elector Francis George von Schönborn as his auxiliary bishop, being consecrated at Mainz, in February 1749, under the title of bishop of Myriophiri in partibus.

George Dixon ( 1748 – 1795 ) was an English sea captain, explorer, and maritime fur trader.

Tanacharison's introduction of Croghan to the Virginia commissioners is further evidence that Croghan organized and led the 1748 Ohio Indian Confederation that Pennsylvania recognized as independent of the Six Nations and appointed Croghan as the colony's representative in negotiations: Brethren, it is a great while since our brother, the Buck ( meaning Mr. George Croghan ) has been doing business between us, & our brother of Pennsylvania, but we understand he does not intend to do any more, so I now inform you that he is approv'd of by our Council at Onondago, for we sent to them to let them know how he has helped us in our councils here and to let you & him know that he is one of our people and shall help us still & be one of our council, I deliver him this string of wampum.