Today in History for Year 1745

Months in Year 1745: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 42 of 42

Jan 6th - Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow
Jan 8th - England, Austria, Neth & Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
Feb 15th - Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London
Feb 18th - Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Inverness Scotland
Feb 20th - Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Fort Augustus, Scotland
Mar 9th - Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
Mar 31st - Jews are expelled from Prague
Apr 2nd - Austria & Bavaria sign peace
May 11th - Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war
Jun 4th - Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians & Saxons
Jun 16th - English fleet occupies Cap Breton on St Lawrence River
Jun 17th - American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton I from French
Jun 22nd - Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland
Jul 1st - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [OS]
Jul 9th - Bonnie Prince Charlies "Elisabeth" battles with HMS Lion
Jul 12th - Warship Elisabeth joins Bonnie Prince Charlies frigate Doutelle [NS]
Jul 23rd - Charles Stuart, the Younger, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides
Jul 24th - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes King James VIII
Aug 3rd - Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides
Aug 5th - Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
Aug 16th - Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
Aug 20th - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
Aug 26th - England, Prussia & Hannover sign treaty
Aug 31st - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle Scotland
Sep 12th - Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus
Sep 17th - Edinburg occupied by Jacobites under Young Pretenders
Sep 21st - Battle at Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats English army
Sep 22nd - Bonnie Prince Charlies army returns to Edinburgh
Sep 28th - Bonnie Prince Charlie becomes king of Scotland
Oct 14th - French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland
Nov 11th - Bonnie Prince Charlies army enters England
Nov 18th - Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle
Nov 28th - -29] French troops attack indians of Saratoga, NY
Nov 29th - Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester & occupy Carlisle
Dec 4th - Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
Dec 6th - Bonnie Prince Charlies army retreats to Scotland
Dec 10th - Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester
Dec 15th - Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria
Dec 17th - Bonnie Prince Charles army retreats to Scotland
Dec 20th - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army meets de Esk
Dec 25th - Prussia andAustria sign Treaty of Dresden giving much of Silesia to the Prussians
Dec 31st - Bonnie Prince Charlies army meets with de Esk

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 33 of 33

Jan 1st - "Mad" Anthony Wayne, general
Jan 6th - Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (1st pioneer balloonist)
Jan 6th - Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
Jan 9th - Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
Jan 17th - Nicolas Roze, composer
Jan 23rd - William Jessop, English canal engineer (d. 1814)
Feb 18th - Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Gerolamo Umberto Volta, Como, Italy, physicist and inventor (battery)
Feb 20th - Johann Peter Salomon, composer
Feb 20th - Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
Feb 22nd - Joao de Sousa Carvalho, composer
Feb 27th - Silverius Muller, composer
Mar 4th - Charles Dibdin, English composer (d.1814)
Mar 10th - John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1807)
Mar 16th - Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, composer
Mar 19th - Nicolas Sejan, composer
Mar 25th - Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer
Apr 7th - Georg Druschetzky, composer
Apr 20th - Philippe Pinel, physician, founder of psychiatry
Apr 29th - Oliver Ellsworth, 3rd Chief Justice Supreme Court (1796-1800)
Physicist and Inventor Alessandro Volta (Feb 18th) May 8th - Carl Philipp Stamitz, composer
Jun 8th - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (d. 1818)
Jun 27th - Johann Nepomuk Went, composer
Jul 13th - Robert Calder, British naval officer (d. 1818)
Jul 17th - Petr Alekseevich Pahlen, Russian general (d. 1826)
Jul 28th - Piotr A von der Pahlen, milt governor (St Petersburg)
Aug 18th - Vaclav Josef Bartolomej Praupner, composer
Aug 26th - Francois Guichard, composer
Sep 16th - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
Sep 23rd - John Sevier, Tennessee, indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn)
Nov 24th - Maria Louisa of Spain, Empress consort of the Holy Roman Empire (d. 1792)
Nov 27th - Boniface Stoecki, composer
Dec 12th - John Jay, diplomat/governor (NY)
Dec 24th - Benjamin Rush, Byberry Pa, physician/general/signer (Decl of Indep)

Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 2 of 1

Aug 21st - Future Russian Czar Peter III marries Ekaterina Alexeievna later Catherine II (Catherine the Great)
Aug 21st - Future Russian Czar Peter III marries Ekaterina Alexeievna later Catherine II (Catherine the Great)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 16 of 16

Jan 4th - Willem I Kerricx, the Young, Flemish architect/painter, dies at 62
Jan 20th - Charles VII Albert, German emperor (1742-45), dies at 47
Feb 5th - Coelestin Praelisauer, composer, dies at 49
Feb 18th - Nicola Fago, composer, dies at 67
Mar 18th - Robert Walpole, 1st English premier (1722-42), dies at 68 [NS=3/29]
Mar 29th - Robert Walpole, 1st British premier (1722-42), dies at 68
May 9th - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, composer, dies at 82
May 22nd - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
Jun 22nd - Hubert Renotte, composer, dies at 41
Aug 30th - Jean-Baptiste Maurice Quinault, composer, dies at 57
Oct 10th - Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer/organist, dies at 52
Oct 19th - Jonathan Swift, English writer (Gulliver's Travels), dies at 77
Nov 16th - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)
Dec 5th - Christoph Forster, composer, dies at 52
Dec 8th - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683)
Dec 22nd - Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer, dies at 66