Editing 1748 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]] captures [[Lahore]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasions|url=http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/events/abdali.html|access-date=2011-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106225410/http://www.sikh-history.com/sikhhist/events/abdali.html|archive-date=November 6, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[January 27]] &ndash; A fire at the prison and barracks at [[Kinsale]], in [[Ireland]], kills 54 of the prisoners of war housed there.  An estimated 500 prisoners are safely conducted to another prison.<ref name=Fires1748>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p51</ref>  
* [[February 7]] &ndash; The San Gabriel mission project begins with the founding of the first Roman Catholic missions further northward in the [[Viceroyalty of New Spain]], in what is now central [[Texas]].  On orders of the Viceroy, [[Juan Francisco de Güemes, 1st Count of Revillagigedo|Juan Francisco de Güemes]], [[Historical list of the Catholic bishops of Puerto Rico|Friar Mariano Marti]] establish the San Francisco Xavier mission at a location on the [[San Gabriel River (Texas)|San Gabriel River]] in what is now [[Milam County, Texas|Milam County]].<ref>Elizabeth A. H. John, ''Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish, and French in the Southwest, 1540-1795'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 1996) pp282-283</ref>  The mission, located northeast of the future site of [[Austin, Texas]], is attacked by 60 [[Apache]] Indians on May 2, and San Xavier is abandoned after a few years.
* [[March 11]] &ndash; In battle near Manupur ({{convert|15|km|mi}} northwest of [[Sirhind]]), Mughal forces under Prince [[Ahmad Shah Bahadur]] are victorious against [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]]. 
* [[March 25]] &ndash; A fire in the [[City of London]] starts at [[Change Alley]] in [[Cornhill, London|Cornhill]] and continues for two days.  Dr. [[Samuel Johnson]] later writes, "The conflagration of a city, with all its turmoil and concominant distress, is one of the most dreadful spectacles which this world can afford to human eyes".<ref name=Fires1748/> Another history notes more than a century later that "the fire led to a great increase in the practice of [[fire insurance]]", after the blaze causes more than £1,000,000 worth of damage.