1748
1748 was a
leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to a full calendar).
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April 24 - A congress assembles at
Aix-la-Chapelle (
Aachen) with the intent to conclude the struggle known as the
War of Austrian Succession - at
October 18 - The
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war
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Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in
Edinburgh* Building of
Sveaborg begins near
Helsinki*
Henry Fielding organizes forerunner of the
Bow Street Runners – eight men at first
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Ahmad Shah captures
Lahore.
* Discovery of ruins of
Pompeii*
January 1 -
Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (d.
1794)
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January 19 -
Antonio Carnicero, Spanish painter (d.
1814)
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February 2 -
Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the
Order of the Illuminati (d.
1811)
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February 9 -
Luther Martin, American politician (d.
1826)
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February 15 -
Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer (d.
1832)
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February 22 -
Timothy Dexter, American businessman (d.
1806)
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February 27 -
Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist (d.
1820)
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March 5 -
William Shield, English violinist and composer (d.
1829)
* March 5 -
Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d.
1810)
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March 8 - Prince
William V of Orange (d.
1806)
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March 10 -
John Playfair, Scottish scientist (d.
1819)
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April 12 -
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d.
1836)
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April 27 -
Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (d.
1815)
* April 27 -
Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (d.
1833)
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May 3 -
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist (d.
1836)
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May 7 -
Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (d.
1793)
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May 28 -
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (d.
1825)
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June 8 -
William Few, American politician (d.
1828)
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June 30 -
Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (d.
1845)
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August 8 -
Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (d.
1804)
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August 30 -
Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d.
1825)
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October 7 - King
Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (d.
1818)
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October 13 -
Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian (d.
1821)
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October 19 -
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of
Thomas Jefferson (d.
1782)
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November 11 - King
Charles IV of Spain (d.
1819)
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December 9 -
Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d.
1822)
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December 14 -
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (d.
1811)
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Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (d.
1831)
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James Sayers, English caricaturist (d.
1823)
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William Chalmers, Swedish merchant (d.
1811)
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January 1 -
Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b.
1667)
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January 16 -
Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b.
1684)
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February 18 -
Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b.
1677)
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March 14 -
George Wade, British military leader (b.
1673)
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March 23 -
Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b.
1684)
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April 12 -
William Kent, English architect
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May 12 -
Thomas Lowndes, British astronomer (b.
1692)
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August 27 -
James Thomson, Scottish poet (b.
1700)
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September 6 -
Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b.
1669)
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September 12 -
Anne Bracegirdle, English actress
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September 21 -
John Balguy, English philosopher (b.
1686)
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November 25 -
Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (b.
1674)
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December 2 -
Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b.
1662)
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Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b.
1672)
