1745

Years: 1742 1743 1744 - 1745 - 1746 1747 1748

Decades: 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1745 in art 1745 in literature 1745 in music 1745 in science List of state leaders in 1745 List of religious leaders in 1745

Events

• May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy, French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army
• June 4 – Frederick the Great destroys Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg
• August 19 - Beginning of the third Jacobite Rebellion at Glenfinnan
• September 12 - Francis I is elected Holy Roman Emperor with the support of his wife, Maria Theresia of Austria. He is the successor of Charles VII Albert of Bavaria, an enemy of Habsburg, who died on January 20 of this year.
• September 14 - Madame de Pompadour is officially presented in the court of Louis XV of France
• December 25 – Treaty of Dresden gives Prussia full possession of Silesia

• Last execution for witchcraft in France

Ongoing events

• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

Births

• February 18 - Alessandro Volta, physicist, eponym for the unit of electric potential (d. 1827)
• March 18 - Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain
• September 16 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal, (d. 1813)

Deaths

• January 20 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
• October 19 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer