1748

This article is about the year 1748.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  – 1740s –  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1745 1746 1747 – 1748 – 1749 1750 1751

1748 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Great Britain –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1748 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1748 MDCCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2501
Armenian calendar	1197 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6498
Bahá'í calendar	-96–-95
Bengali calendar	1155
Berber calendar	2698
British Regnal year	21 Geo. 2 – 22 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2292
Burmese calendar	1110
Byzantine calendar	7256–7257
Chinese calendar	丁卯年十二月初一日 (4384/4444-12-1) — to — 戊辰年十一月十二日 (4385/4445-11-12)
Coptic calendar	1464–1465
Ethiopian calendar	1740–1741
Hebrew calendar	5508–5509
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1804–1805
- Shaka Samvat	1670–1671
- Kali Yuga	4849–4850
Holocene calendar	11748
Iranian calendar	1126–1127
Islamic calendar	1160–1162
Japanese calendar	Enkyō 5Kan'en 1 (寛延元年)
Korean calendar	4081
Minguo calendar	164 before ROC 民前164年
Thai solar calendar	2291

Year 1748 (MDCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• January 12 – Ahmad Shah Durrani captures Lahore.
• March 11 – In battle near Manupur (15 km northwest of Sirhind), Mughal forces under Prince Ahmad Shah Bahadur are victorious against Ahmad Shah Durrani.
• March 28 – A fire in the City of London causes over a million pounds worth of damage.
• April – Maastricht is conquered by Maurice de Saxe.
• April 24 – War of the Austrian Succession: A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the war.

July–December

• August – The Camberwell Beauty butterfly is named after specimens found at Camberwell in London.
• September 24 – Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Greater Khorasan.
• October 18 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war. Great Britain obtains Madras, in India, from France, in exchange for the fortress of Louisbourg in Canada.

Date unknown

• Leonhard Euler publishes Introductio in analysin infinitorum.
• Montesquieu publishes De l'Esprit des lois.
• Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock publishes the first three cantos of his epic poem Der Messias in hexameters (anonymously) in Bremer Beiträge (Leipzig).
• Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh.
• The building of Sveaborg begins near Helsinki.
• Henry Fielding organizes the forerunner of the Bow Street Runners in London (8 men at first).
• The ruins of Pompeii are discovered.
• Louis XV of France authorizes a 5% income tax on every individual regardless of social status; the Parlement of Paris protests.

Births

• January 19 – Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (d. 1814)
• February 2 – Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Order of the Illuminati (d. 1811)
• February 9 – Luther Martin, American politician (d. 1826)
• February 15 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer (d. 1832)
• February 22 – Timothy Dexter, American businessman (d. 1806)
• February 27 – Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist (d. 1820)
• March 5
  • William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829)
  • Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
• March 8 – Prince William V of Orange (d. 1806)
• March 10 – John Playfair, Scottish scientist (d. 1819)
• April 12 – Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
• April 27
  • Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (d. 1815)
  • Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (d. 1833)
• May 3 – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist (d. 1836)
• May 7 – Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (d. 1793)
• May 10 – Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (d. 1831)
• May 28 – Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (d. 1825)
• June 8 – William Few, American politician (d. 1828)
• June 30 – Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1845)
• August 8 – Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (d. 1804)
• August 30 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
• October 7 – King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (d. 1818)
• October 13 – Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian (d. 1821)
• October 19 – Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
• November 11 – King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
• November 13 – William Chalmers, Swedish merchant (d. 1811)
• December 9 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
• December 14 – William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (d. 1811)
• date unknown
  • James Sayers, English caricaturist (d. 1823)
  • Timur Shah, Afghan king (d. 1793)
  • Thomas Holloway, English portrait painter and engraver (d. 1827)

Deaths

• January 1 – Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
• January 16 – Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
• February 18 – Otto Ferdinand von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
• March 14 – George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
• March 23 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)
• April 12 – William Kent, English architect (b. c. 1685)
• May 12 – Thomas Lowndes, British astronomer (b. 1692)
• August 27 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
• September 6 – Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
• September 10 – Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, foundress (b. 1663)
• September 12 – Anne Bracegirdle, English actress (b. c. 1671)
• September 21 – John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
• November 25 – Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (b. 1674)
• December 2 – Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)