Major Events
- Apr 16 Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart
- Oct 28 Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
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Who Died in 1746
- Jan 5 Anton Simon Ignaz Praelisauer, German organist and composer, dies at 53
- Jan 21 Gottfried Kirchhoff, German composer, dies at 60
- Feb 4 Robert Blair, Scottish poet (The Grave), dies at 46
- Feb 20 Guillaume Coustou Sr, French sculptor (Mary Leszczynska), dies at 68
- Feb 28 Hermann von der Hardt, German historian, dies at 85
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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