1745

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s

Years: 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 - 1745 - 1746 1747 1748 1749 1750

• May 11 - War of Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy - At Fontenoy[?], French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army.
• August 19 - Beginning of the third Jacobite Rebellion at Glenfinnan[?]

Births

• February 18 - Alessandro Volta, physicist, eponym for the unit of electric potential (+ 1827)
• March 18 - Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of Great Britain

Deaths

• * October 19 - Jonathan Swift, Irish writer