1746 Battle of Colluden
Events
- 1740: George Whitefield brings the First Great Awakening to New England
- 1740–1741: Famine in Ireland kills 20 percent of the population.
- 1741–1743: Iran invades Uzbekistan, Khwarazm, Dagestan, and Oman.
- 1741–1751: Maratha invasions of Bengal.
- 1740–1748: War of the Austrian Succession.
- 1742: Marvel’s Mill, the first water-powered cotton mill, begins operation in England.
- 1742: Anders Celsius proposes an inverted form of the centigrade temperature, which is later renamed Celsius in his honor.
- 1742: Premiere of George Frideric Handel‘s Messiah.
- 1743–1746: Another Ottoman-Persian War involves 375,000 men but ultimately ends in a stalemate.
- 1744: The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud.
- 1744: Battle of Toulon is fought off the coast of France.
- 1744–1748: The First Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
- 1745: Second Jacobite rising is begun by Charles Edward Stuart in Scotland.
- 1747: The Durrani Empire is founded by Ahmad Shah Durrani.
- 1748: The Treaty of Aix-La-Chapelle ends the War of the Austrian Succession and First Carnatic War.
- 1748–1754: The Second Carnatic War is fought between the British, the French, the Marathas, and Mysore in India.
- 1750: Peak of the Little Ice Age.
Inventions, discoveries, and introductions
- c. 1740: Modern steel was developed by Benjamin Huntsman
- 1741: Vitus Bering discovers Alaska
- 1745: Leyden jar invented by Ewald Georg von Kleist was the first electrical capacitor
Literary and philosophical achievements
- 1744: A Little Pretty Pocket-Book becomes one of the first books marketed for children
- 1748: Chushingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers), popular Japanese puppet play, composed
- 1748: Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
- 1749: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding
