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Contents
1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths
Events
May 11
-
War of Austrian Succession
:
Battle of Fontenoy
- At
Fontenoy
,
French
forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the
Black Watch
June 4
–
Frederick the Great
destroys
Austrian
army at
Hohenfriedberg
August 19
- Beginning of the '45
Jacobite Rising
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
)
February 20
-
Henry James Pye
, English poet (d.
1813
)
March 18
- Sir
Robert Walpole
,
Prime Minister of Great Britain
September 16
-
Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov
, Russian field marshal, (d.
1813
)
December 15
-
Johann Gottfried Koehler
, German astronomer
Deaths
January 20
-
Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
March 18
-
Robert Walpole
, first
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
October 19
-
Jonathan Swift
, Irish writer
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