1746 in Great Britain

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1746 English cricket season

Events from the year 1746 in Great Britain.

Incumbents

• Monarch – George II
• Prime Minister – Henry Pelham (Whig)
• Parliament – 9th

Events

• 8 January – Jacobite rising: Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie" or "The Young Pretender") occupies Stirling.
• 17 January – Government forces suffer a defeat to Jacobite forces at the Battle of Falkirk.[1]
• 10 February – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath forms the Short-lived Ministry following the resignation of Henry Pelham. It lasts a mere two days.
• 16 April – Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite rising.[2] Culloden is the last pitched battle fought on British soil. George Frideric Handel composes the oratorio Judas Maccabaeus to commemorate the Duke of Cumberland's victory.[3]
• 3 May – "Battle of Loch nan Uamh": Royal Navy sloops attack French privateers which have landed money (and brandy) intended to aid the Jacobite cause in the Sound of Arisaig.[4]
• 6 May – William Pitt the Elder appointed Paymaster of the Forces and Henry Fox appointed Secretary at War.[3]
• End May – The Venetian painter Canaletto begins a nine-year stay in England.[5]
• 18 June – Samuel Johnson is contracted to write his A Dictionary of the English Language.
• 27 June – Charles Edward Stuart escapes to the Isle of Skye with the aid of Flora MacDonald.[2]
• 30 July – Francis Towneley, with fellow members of the Jacobite Manchester Regiment convicted of treason, is hanged, drawn and quartered at Kennington Common in London; the heads of two of them become the last to be publicly displayed on Temple Bar, London.
• 1 August – wearing of the kilt is banned in Scotland by the Dress Act.
• 18 August – two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, the Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmerinoch, are beheaded in the Tower (Lord Lovat executed 1747).
• 20 September – Charles Edward Stuart escapes to France with the aid of Flora MacDonald.[3]
• 21 September – in India, Madras is captured by the French led by Joseph François Dupleix.[3]

Undated

• William Cookworthy discovers kaolin in Cornwall.[6]
• An act to enforce the execution of an act of this session of parliament, for granting to his Majesty several rates and duties upon houses, windows, or lights includes a general provision confirming that all statutes naming England apply equally to Wales and Berwick-upon-Tweed.[7]

Births

• 28 September – William Jones, philologist (died 1794)

Deaths

• 4 February – Robert Blair, poet (born 1699)
• 14 June – Colin Maclaurin, mathematician (born 1698)
• 2 July – Thomas Baker, antiquarian (born 1656)
• 2 October – Josiah Burchett, Secretary of the Admiralty (born c. 1666)
• 6 December – Lady Grizel Baillie, poet (born 1665)
• 8 December – Charles Radclyffe, politician (born 1693)

References

1. "The Battle of Falkirk 1746, BritishBattles.com". Archived from the original on 12 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-27.
2. Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
3. Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 311. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
4. Love, Dane (2007). "Battle of Loch nan Uamh". Jacobite Stories. Neil Wilson Publishing. ISBN 9781903238868.
5. Macfall, Haldane (2004). A History of Painting. Whitefish: Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1-4179-4508-7.
6. Penderill-Church, John (1972). William Cookworthy 1705–1780: a study of the pioneer of true porcelain manufacture in England. Truro: Bradford Barton.
7. "20 Geo. II, c. 42". Statutes at Large. 1746. Retrieved 2011-11-14.

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