In the War of Austrian Succession, the British carried out unsuccessful attacks against Santiago de Cuba in 1741 and again in 1748.

Additionally, a skirmish between British and Spanish naval squadrons occurred near Havana in 1748.

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 ).

* 1748 – British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

Between 1746 and 1748 Pitt worked closely with Newcastle in formulating British military and diplomatic strategy.

At the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 British colonial conquests were exchanged for a French withdrawal from Brussels.

* December 18 – Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, British Governor-General of India ( b. 1748 )

A final attempt in June 1748 avoided the fort and attacked the weakly fortified town of Cuddalore itself, but was routed by the British garrison.

From 1747 until the close of the war in October 1748 the naval policy of the British government, without reaching a high level, was more energetic and coherent.

The War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), which pitted the French and Prussians against the Austrians, British, and Dutch, culminated in a series of major French victories: the Battle of Fontenoy ( 1745 ), the Battle of Rocoux ( 1746 ), and the Battle of Lauffeld ( 1747 ).

The last occasion was at the treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748, when two British peers, Henry Bowes Howard, 11th Earl of Suffolk, and Charles, 9th Baron Cathcart, were sent to France as hostages for the restitution of Cape Breton to France.

In the conflict, Clive's bravery came to the attention Major Stringer Lawrence, who arrived in 1748 to take command of the British troops at Fort St. David.

Captured by British colonists in 1745, it was a major bargaining chip in the negotiations leading to the 1748 treaty ending the War of the Austrian Succession, and was returned to French control from British in exchange for Indian city of Madras.

In 1748, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, which ended the War of the Austrian Succession, restored Louisbourg to France in return for territory gained in the Netherlands and the British trading post at Madras in India.

In 1748 Pondicherry was besieged by the British, but in the course of the operations news arrived of the peace concluded between the French and the British at Aix-la-Chapelle.

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

In 1748 the British Ambassador to Paris decorated his salon with blue flock wallpaper, which then became very fashionable there.

In that year, 1748, de Guichen had fought no fewer than five battles against superior British forces, while escorting back to France, from the Antilles a huge convoy.

* James Henry Craig ( 1748 – 1812 ), British soldier and colonial administrator

Since 1748 Trooping the Colour has also marked the official birthday of the British sovereign.

John Hampden-Trevor, 3rd Viscount Hampden PC ( 24 February 1748 – 9 September 1824 ), was a British diplomat.

The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748 forced Dupleix to yield Madras back to the British in return for Louisbourg and Cape Breton Island in North America.

Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle KG, KT, PC ( 28 May 1748 – 4 September 1825 ) was a British diplomat and the son of Henry Howard, 4th Earl of Carlisle and his second wife Isabella Byron.

He was voivod of Kijów Voivodship from 1702 to 1744, Regimentarz generalny of the Crown Army since 1733, Great Crown Hetman since 1735, voivod of Poznań Voivodship since 1743, castellan of Kraków since 1748 and starost of Halicz, Warsaw, Leżajsk, Kołomyja, Czerwonogród, Śniatyn and Bolemów.

He became Grand Guardian of the Crown in 1748, and was also a Lieutenant-General.

In late summer 1748 the Academy moved to the floor above the Crown Prince's stables at Christiansborg Palace, where Eigtved had his offices, while the model school continued on Gammelstrand, where Hieronimo Miani, former leader of the Academy, had started the studio.

During the time of Capitan Barrientos a resolution to transfer the seat of the government from the Municipality of Laua-an to the Municipality of Barbaza was passed and approved pursuant to the provision of Act No. 1748.

Europeans first began to settle in the region in 1748, when the first Ohio Company, an English land speculation company, won a grant of 200, 000 acres ( 800 km² ) in the upper Ohio Valley.

* Bailey, Kenneth P. The Ohio Company of Virginia and the Westward Movement, 1748 – 1792.

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.

In 1748, a violent storm battered his vessel so severely that he called out to God for mercy, a moment that marked his spiritual conversion.

The size and shape of the civil ensign (" Koffardiflaget ") for merchant ships is given in the regulation of June 11, 1748, which says: A red flag with a white cross with no split end.

In 1739 and 1748, David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the associations and causes of ideas with visual images, in some sense forerunners to the language of film.

The Royal Navy captured a handful of the new French frigates during the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) and were impressed by them, particularly for their inshore handling capabilities.

From 1748 to 1760 he lived in Leipzig and Berlin and worked as reviewer and editor for, amongst others, the Vossische Zeitung.

In the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) Maria Theresa fought successfully for recognition of her succession to the throne.

Chayei Adam and Chochmat Adam by Avraham Danzig ( Poland, 1748 – 1820 ) are similar Ashkenazi works, but are regarded as a more appropriate basis for practice.

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 date was March 10, 1748, an anniversary he marked for the rest of his life.

It was on Bach's recommendation that in 1748 he was able to join Johann Adolph Hasse's court orchestra at Dresden where he remained for ten years.

In Berlin, he published the two works which he would be most renowned for: the Introductio in analysin infinitorum, a text on functions published in 1748, and the Institutiones calculi differentialis, published in 1755 on differential calculus.

In 1748, at age sixteen, Lee left Virginia for Yorkshire, England, to complete his formal education at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield, England.

* January 10 – James Mitchell Varnum, American brigadier general of the Revolutionary War and Continental Congressman for Rhode Island ( b. 1748 )

This universal law of nature embraces laws of motion as well, for an object moving others by its own force in fact imparts to another object the force it loses " ( first articulated in a letter to Leonhard Euler dated 5 July 1748, rephrased and published in Lomonosov's dissertation " Reflexion on the solidity and fluidity of bodies ", 1760 ).

He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady ( 1748 ) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison ( 1753 ).

He filled his new few years with smaller works for his friends until 1748, when Richardson started helping Sarah Fielding and her friend Jane Collier to write novels.

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.

In 1748, " Hunting " John McDowell received a land grant for property known today as " Pleasant Gardens " including acreage originally located from Swan's Pond ( Catawba County ) up the Catawba River west to present day Marion and into the region known as Buck Creek.

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

For the remainder of 1748 and 1749 Gluck travelled with Mingotti's troupe, contracting a venereal disease from the prima donna and composing the opera La contesa de ' numi for the court at Copenhagen.

Examples of his history pictures are The Pool of Bethesda and The Good Samaritan, executed in 1736 – 1737 for St Bartholomew's Hospital ; Moses brought before Pharaoh's Daughter, painted for the Foundling Hospital ( 1747, formerly at the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now in the Foundling Museum ); Paul before Felix ( 1748 ) at Lincoln's Inn ; and his altarpiece for St. Mary Redcliffe, Bristol ( 1756 ).