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1745
Year '''1745''' ('''Roman numerals|MDCCXLV''') was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of
January - June
- May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy (1745)|Battle of Fontenoy - France|French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch.
- June 4 - Frederick the Great destroys the Austrian army at Hohenfriedberg.
July - December
- August 19 - The '45 Jacobite Rising begins at Glenfinnan.
- September 12 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor|Francis I is elected Holy Roman Emperor with the support of his wife, Maria Theresa of Austria|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.
- September 21 - Battle of Prestonpans: United Kingdom|British Government forces are defeated.
- December 25 - The Treaty of Dresden gives Prussia full possession of Silesia.
- December 28 - For 5 days, fire destroys buildings in Istanbul.
Ongoing events
- War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748).
- Jacobite_Rising#The_.27Forty-Five.27|The "Forty Five"/Bliadhna Theàrlaich, part of the second Jacobite Rising, mainly in Scotland.
Births
- February 18 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827)
- February 20 - Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813)
- March 4 - Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814)
- March 10 - John Gunby, Maryland soldier in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1807)
- April 6 - Thomas Peters (supercentenarian)|Thomas Peters, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 1857)
- July 13 - Robert Calder, British naval officer, (d. 1818)
- August 20 - Francis Asbury, United Methodist Church|American Methodist Bishop (d. 1816)
- September 16 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
- November 23 - John Treadwell, the fourth Governor of Connecticut (d. 1823)
- December 15 - Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (d. 1801)
- ''date unknown'' - Danwon, Korean painter (d. 1806)
- ''See also :Category: 1745 births.''
Deaths
- January 20 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1697)
- March 18 - Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
- May 9 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1663)
- May 22 - François-Marie, 1st duc de Broglie, French military leader (b. 1671)
- October 19 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer (b. 1667)
- November 16 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665)
- December 8 - Etienne Fourmont, French orientalist (b. 1683)
- December 19 - Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
- ''See also :Category: 1745 deaths.''
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