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Everything about 1748 totally explainedYear 1748 ( MDCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1748
January - June
July - December
September 24 - Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Khorasan.
October 18 - War of Austrian Succession: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war.
Undated
Great Britain obtains Madras, in India, from France, in exchange of the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada.
Leonhard Euler publishes Introductio in analysin infinitorum.
Montesquieu publishes De l'Esprit des lois.
Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.
The building of Sveaborg begins near Helsinki.
Henry Fielding organizes the forerunner of the Bow Street Runners: eight men at first.
Ahmad Shah Bahadur captures Lahore.
The ruins of Pompeii are discovered.
Louis XV of France authorizes a 5% income tax on every individual regardless of social status. Parlement of Paris protests.
Births
January 1 - Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (died 1794)
January 19 - Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (died 1814)
February 2 - Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Order of the Illuminati (died 1811)
February 9 - Luther Martin, American politician (died 1826)
February 15 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer (died 1832)
February 22 - Timothy Dexter, American businessman (died 1806)
February 27 - Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist (died 1820)
March 5 - William Shield, English violinist and composer (died 1829)
March 5 - Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (died 1810)
March 8 - Prince William V of Orange (died 1806)
March 10 - John Playfair, Scottish scientist (died 1819)
April 12 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (died 1836)
April 27 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (died 1815)
April 27 - Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (died 1833)
May 3 - Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist (died 1836)
May 7 - Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (died 1793)
May 10 - Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (died 1831)
May 28 - Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (died 1825)
June 8 - William Few, American politician (died 1828)
June 30 - Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (died 1845)
August 8 - Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (died 1804)
August 30 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (died 1825)
October 7 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (died 1818)
October 13 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian (died 1821)
October 19 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (died 1782)
November 11 - King Charles IV of Spain (died 1819)
November 13 - William Chalmers, Swedish merchant (died 1811)
December 9 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (died 1822)
December 14 - William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (died 1811)
date unknown - James Sayers, English caricaturist (died 1823)
Timur Shah, Afghan king (died 1793)
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Deaths
January 1 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (born 1667)
January 16 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (born 1684)
February 18 - Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (born 1677)
March 14 - George Wade, British military leader (born 1673)
March 23 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (born 1684)
April 12 - William Kent, English architect (born c.1685)
May 12 - Thomas Lowndes, British astronomer (born 1692)
August 27 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (born 1700)
September 6 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (born 1669)
September 12 - Anne Bracegirdle, English actress (born c.1671)
September 21 - John Balguy, English philosopher (born 1686)
November 25 - Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (born 1674)
December 2 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (born 1662)
December 19 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (born 1672)
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