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Events

= January–March =

  • January 12 – Ahmad Shah Durrani captures Lahore.{{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}}
  • January 27 – 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."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
  • February 7 – 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, Friar Mariano Marti establish the San Francisco Xavier mission at a location on the San Gabriel River in what is now Milam County.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 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 – 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 – A fire in the City of London starts at Change Alley in 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". 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.

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= July–September =

  • July 29 – Royal Navy Admiral Edward Boscawen arrives at the coast of southeastern India with 28 ships, to defend Fort St. David from attacks by armies of French India. Historian Francis Grose later writes that Boscawen had brought the largest fleet "ever seen together in the East Indies", with nine ships of the line, two frigates, a sloop, and two tenders" Charles Rathbone Low, History of the Indian Navy: (1613-1863) (Richard Bentley and Son, 1877) p140 and 14 ships of the British East India Company. Altogether, Boscawen has 3,580 sailors under his command. He then launches an offensive to destroy the French fort at Pondicherry and drive France from the subcontinent.
  • August 26 – The first Lutheran Church body in America is founded at a conference in Philadelphia, organized by German-born evangelist Henry Muhlenberg and attended by pastors of orthodox and pious Lutheran communities.Henry Eyster Jacobs, A History of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States (The Christian Literature Co., 1893 p243 The two groups agree to create a common liturgy to govern public worship.
  • August – The Camberwell beauty butterfly is named after specimens found at Camberwell in London.
  • September 24 – Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Greater Khorasan.

= October –December =

Paul Peucker, A Time of Sifting: Mystical Marriage and the Crisis of Moravian Piety in the Eighteenth Century (Penn State Press, 2015)

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  • Leonhard Euler publishes Introductio in analysin infinitorum, an introduction to pure analytical mathematics, in Berlin.
  • 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 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.{{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}}
  • Louis XV of France breaks his promise to eliminate the income tax, after the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle ends the war. The Parlement of Paris protests, so he reduces the tax to 5%.{{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 }}

Births

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Deaths

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Further reading

  • {{cite book |title=Blair's Chronological Tables |author1=John Blair |author-link=John Blair (priest) |author2=J. Willoughby Rosse|location= London |publisher=H.G. Bohn |year=1856 |via=Hathi Trust |chapter-url= http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n?urlappend=%3Bseq=669 |chapter= 1748 |hdl=2027/loc.ark:/13960/t6349vh5n?urlappend=%3Bseq=669 }}

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