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Thu Nov 23 2000 at 23:20:09
Born in 1745:
German
composer
Karl Stamitz
.
Italian
physicist
Allesandro Volta
.
Norwegian
poet
Johan Nordahl Brun
.
Pennsylvania
physician
and
statesman
Benjamin Rush
.
Norwegian
mathematician
Caspar Wessel
, inventor of
complex numbers
.
American
author
Olaudah Equiano
, in
Africa
.
English
playwright
Hannah More
.
American
theologian
Johnathan Edwards
(Junior).
Italian composer
Maddalena Sirme
.
Scottish
novelist
Henry Mackenzie
.
American naval pioneer
John Barry
, called "Father of the American Navy", in
Ireland
.
American statesman and diplomat
John Jay
.
Jean Baptiste Pont DuSable
, first settler of
Chicago
.
Died in 1745:
British satirist and curmudgeon
Jonathan Swift
.
English author and politician Sir
Robert Walpole
.
Czech
musician and composer
Jan Dismas Zelenka
.
English poet
Thomas Warton
.
French architect
Pierre-Alexis Delamair
.
French composer
Antoine Forqueray
.
Charles VII
, king of
Bavaria
and
Holy Roman Emperor
.
Events of 1745:
King George's War
/
War of the Austrian Succession
:
(May 11)
Marshal Saxe
of
France
delivers Great Britain's
Duke of Cumberland
a severe defeat at the
Battle of Fontenoy
. This allows Saxe to eventually conquer the
Austrian Netherlands
.
(June 14)
Massachusetts
forces capture the French fortress of
Louisbourg
on
Cape Breton Island
.
(August on)
Mikmaq
warriors raid towns in
Maine
.
(
Jacobite Rebellion
) The French government mounts an expedition to cause an uprising in
Scotland
using
Charles Edward Stewart
, aka "
Bonnie Prince Charlie
" to stir up the Highland Clans.
(July 25) Stewart evades the British fleet and arrives in Scotland with a handful of men. The clan chiefs tell him to go away.
Stewart blackmails the clan chiefs into giving him an army.
(September 17) Stewart takes
Edinburgh
with no resistance.
(September 21) (
Battle of Prestonpans
) Stewart's army defeats the meager British garrison, the survivors of which flee to
Berwick
.
Stewart leads the clans down into northern England, reaching as far south as
Derby
(December 4).
There is panic in London.
George II recalls the British army from the Continent.
Stewart's generals outvote him and they
return to Scotland
(December 20), with the British army in pursuit.
(November 28)
Iroquois
raiders burn
Saratoga
.
The husband of Austrian Empress
Maria Theresa
is elected
Holy Roman Emperor
Francis I
.
Prussia
under
Frederick II
re-enters the war
in January (
Second Silesian War
). He finishes by December, when the
Treaty of Dresden
confirms Prussian possession of
Silesia
.
British King
George II
sues for peace.
Pope
Benedict XIV
issues an encyclical,
On Usury and Other Dishonest Profit
,
proclaiming the charging of
interest
a sin.
'
God Save The King
' is performed publicly for the first time.
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Culloden
1743
Jonathan Swift
Edinburgh
James B. Lansing
William Scott, Baron Stowell
Rest and be thankful
Prestonpans
Killiecrankie
1742
George II
Bonnie Prince Charlie
God Save the Queen
John Barry
Holy Roman Empire
Marriage à-la-mode
Glenfinnan
Austrian cuisine
Niels Klim's Subterranean Journey
Louisbourg
constitutional monarchy
The Proud Plaid