Editing 1746 (section)

=== 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>