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* [[Leonhard Euler]] publishes ''[[Introductio in analysin infinitorum]]'', an introduction to pure analytical mathematics, in Berlin.
* [[Montesquieu]] publishes ''[[The Spirit of the Laws|De l'esprit des lois]]''.
* [[Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock]] publishes the first three [[canto]]s of his [[Epic poetry|epic poem]] ''[[Der Messias (Klopstock)|Der Messias]]'' in [[hexameter]]s (anonymously), in ''[[Bremer Beiträge]]'' ([[Leipzig]]).
* [[Adam Smith]] begins to deliver public lectures in [[Edinburgh]].
* The [[Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences]] makes [[Eva Ekeblad]] its first female member.
* Construction of the [[Sveaborg]] fortification begins near [[Helsinki]].
* The ruins of [[Pompeii]] are rediscovered.<ref>{{cite web |title=Archaeologists Investigate Ancient Roman Life Preserved at Pompeii |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/pompeii |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301162502/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/pompeii |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 1, 2021 |website=History |access-date=3 August 2022 |language=en |date=21 October 2010}}</ref>
* [[Louis XV of France]] breaks his promise to eliminate the [[income tax]], after the [[Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748)|Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle]] ends the war. The [[Parlement of Paris]] protests, so he reduces the tax to 5%.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Income Taxation in France | author1 = H. Parker Willis | journal = Journal of Political Economy | volume = 4 | issue = 1 | date = December 1895 | pages = 37–53 | publisher = The University of Chicago Press | url = http://www.austinlibrary.com:2138/stable/1817921 | quote = The war of the Austrian Succession for the third time threw the treasury back upon the hated fiscal resource in October of 1741, when the income tax was reintroduced accompanied by a royal promise to the effect that upon the close of the war this means of raising revenue should once for all be done away with. | doi=10.1086/250324| s2cid = 154527133 }}</ref>
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