Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s - 1750s - 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s

Years: 1746 1747 1748 1749 1750 - 1751 - 1752 1753 1754 1755 1756

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Monarchs/Presidents

Events

• Adam Smith is appointed professor of logic at the University of Glasgow
• March 31 - The future King George III of the United Kingdom succeeds his father as Prince of Wales. His mother Augusta of Saxe-Gotha becomes Dowager Princess of Wales.

• 1751 in literature
• 1751 in science

• February 20 - Johann Heinrich Voß, poet (+ 1826)
• March 16 - James Madison, later 4th President of the United States (died 1836)
• May 24 - Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, King of Sardinia 1796-1802 (died 1819)
• July 11 - Caroline Matilda of Wales (died 1775)
• John André, English soldier (died 1780)
• October 30 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Irish dramatist and politician (died 1816)
• Thomas Sheraton, English furniture designer (died 1806)

• January 17 - Tomaso Albinoni, aged 69, Italian composer.
• March 25 - Frederick I of Sweden (born 1676)
• March 31 - Frederick, Prince of Wales
• August 30 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist (born 1661)
• October 22 - William IV of Orange (born 1711)
• Thomas Coram, English philanthropist (born 1668)

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
• Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
• Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786)
• Russia - Elizabeth Empress of Russia (reigned from 1741 to January 5, 1762)
• Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)
• Sweden - Adolf Frederick of Sweden King of Sweden (reigned from 1751 to 1771)