Editing 1746 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 8]] &ndash; The Young Pretender [[Charles Edward Stuart]] occupies [[Stirling]], [[Scotland]].
* [[January 17]] &ndash; [[Battle of Falkirk Muir]]: [[United Kingdom|British]] Government forces are defeated by Jacobite forces.<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=BTL9|desc=Battle of Falkirk II|access-date=June 18, 2020}}</ref>
* [[February 1]] &ndash; [[Jagat Singh II]], the ruler of the [[Mewar Kingdom]], inaugurates his [[Lake Palace]] on the island of Jag Niwas in [[Lake Pichola]], in what is now the state of [[Rajasthan]] in northwest India.<ref>Cheryl Bentley, ''A Guide to the Palace Hotels of India'' (Hunter Publishing, 2011)</ref> 
* [[February 19]] &ndash; [[Prince William, Duke of Cumberland]], issues a proclamation offering an amnesty to participants in the [[Jacobite rising of 1745|Jacobite rebellion]], directing them that they can avoid punishment if they turn their weapons in to their local Presbyterian church.<ref>Geoffrey Plank, ''Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire'' (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) pp61-62</ref>
* [[February 22]] &ndash; [[Brussels]], at the time part of the [[Austrian Netherlands]], surrenders to [[France]]'s Marshal [[Maurice de Saxe]].<ref>George Edmundson, ''A History of Holland'' (Ozymandias Press, 2018)</ref> 
* [[March 10]] &ndash; [[Zakariya Khan Bahadur]], the [[Mughal Empire]]'s viceroy administering [[Lahore]] (in what is now Pakistan), orders the massacre of the city's [[Sikh people]].<ref>Harish Jain, ''The Making of Punjab'' (Unistar Books, 2003) p193 </ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 16]] &ndash; The [[Battle of Culloden]] in Scotland, the final [[pitched battle]] fought on British soil, brings an end to the [[Jacobite rising of 1745]].<ref>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=BTL6|desc=Battle of Culloden|access-date=June 18, 2020}}</ref>
* [[May 27]] &ndash; The three Scottish leaders of the [[Jacobite rising of 1745|Jacobite uprising]]— the [[William Boyd, 4th Earl of Kilmarnock|Earl of Kilmarnock]], [[Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerino|Lord Balmerino]], and [[Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat|Lord Lovat]]— are imprisoned for treason in the [[Tower of London]], where they are held by the British government until their execution.  Boyd and Balmerino are beheaded in August, while Fraser is not put to death until April 1747.<ref>Richard Davey, ''The Tower of London'' (E. P. Dutton, 1910) pp333-334</ref>
* [[June 16]] &ndash; [[Battle of Piacenza]]: Austrian forces defeat French and Spanish troops.
* [[June 18]] &ndash; [[Samuel Johnson]] is contracted to write his ''A Dictionary of the English Language''.
* [[June 29]] &ndash; [[Catherine of Ricci]] (b. [[1522]]) is canonized.

=== July–September ===
* [[July 3]] &ndash; Father Joachim Royo, the last of the five Spanish Catholic missionaries to [[Fuzhou]] in [[China]], is captured by Chinese authorities, after having spent three decades defying orders to not evangelize.<ref>
Anthony E. Clark, ''China's Saints: Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing (1644–1911)'' (Lexington Books, 2011) p73</ref>  He and three fellow priests are put to death two years later, on October 28, 1748.
* [[July 9]] &ndash; King [[Philip V of Spain]] dies, after a reign of more than 45 years.  His oldest living son succeeds him, as [[Ferdinand VI of Spain|King Ferdinand VI]].
* [[August 1]] &ndash; The wearing of the [[kilt]] is banned in [[Scotland]] by the [[Dress Act]] (Note: the actual effective date of the Dress Act was [[August 1]], [[1747]], not 1746).
* [[August 18]] &ndash; Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, [[Earl of Kilmarnock]] and [[Arthur Elphinstone, 6th Lord Balmerinoch|Lord Balmerinoch]], are beheaded in the [[Tower of London]] (Lord Lovat is executed in [[1747]]).
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[Bonnie Prince Charlie]] flees to the [[Isle of Skye]] from [[Arisaig]], after the unsuccessful [[Jacobite rising of 1745]], marked by the [[Prince's Cairn]] on the banks of [[Loch nan Uamh]].

=== October–December ===
* [[October 11]] &ndash; [[War of the Austrian Succession]] &ndash; [[Battle of Rocoux]]: The [[Early Modern France|French]] army defeats the allied [[Habsburg monarchy|Austrian]], [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]], [[Electorate of Hanover|Hanoveran]] and [[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] army in [[Rocourt, Liège|Rocourt]].
* [[October 22]] &ndash; The [[Princeton University|College of New Jersey]] is founded in Princetown, New Jersey. In 1896, it is renamed Princeton University.  
* [[October 28]] &ndash; An [[1746 Lima–Callao earthquake|earthquake]] demolishes [[Lima]] and [[Callao]], in [[Viceroyalty of Peru|Peru]].
* [[November 4]] &ndash; [[Anwaruddin Khan]], the Nawab of the [[Arcot State]] in South India, is driven back by the Captain Louis Paradis of the French Army after he and 10,000 soldiers attempt to drive the French back out of [[Madras]].<ref>
Sir William W. Hunter, ''The History of Nations: India'' (John D. Morris, 1906) p179</ref>
* [[December 5]] &ndash; Rallied by a teenage boy, Giovanni Battista Perasso (nicknamed [[Balilla]]"), the citizens of the [[Republic of Genoa]] [[Siege of Genoa (1746)|rise up against the Austrian occupying troops]] and the collaborator Military Governor, the Genoese [[Marquis of Botta d'Adorno]]. By December 11, the Austrian soldiers are driven from the Italian city-state, but return a few months later.<ref>"Eighteenth Century", in ''Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015'', ed. by Micheal Clodfelter (McFarland, 2017) p77</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Eva Ekeblad]] reports her discovery, of how to make flour and alcohol from potatoes, to the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]].
* The town of [[Vilkovo]] ([[Odes'ka oblast']], [[Ukraine]]) is founded.
* [[Gabriel Johnston]], British Governor of the [[Province of North Carolina]], moves to [[New Bern, North Carolina|New Bern]], the province's largest. New Bern replaces [[Edenton, North Carolina|Edenton]] as the capital of North Carolina until [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] is established in [[1792]].
* [[Charles Batteux]]'s ''Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe'' is published in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of "''les beaux arts''": "the [[fine arts]]".
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