1746

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  • January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling
  • April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Risings
  • August 18 - Two of the four rebellious Scottish lords, Earl of Kilmarnock and Lord Balmeniro beheaded in the Tower (Lord Lovat executed 1747)
  • October 22 - The College of New Jersey is founded (it becomes Princeton University in 1896)
  • October 28 - An earthquake demolishes Lima and Callao, in Peru
  • Catharine de Ricci (born 1522) canonized.
  • Town of Vilkovo (Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine) is founded.

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