Editing 1746 (section)

=== 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>