1748

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1748 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1748
MDCCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita2501
Armenian calendar1197
ԹՎ ՌՃՂԷ
Assyrian calendar6498
Balinese saka calendar1669–1670
Bengali calendar1155
Berber calendar2698
British Regnal year21 Geo. 2 – 22 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2292
Burmese calendar1110
Byzantine calendar7256–7257
Chinese calendar丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
4444 or 4384
    — to —
戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
4445 or 4385
Coptic calendar1464–1465
Discordian calendar2914
Ethiopian calendar1740–1741
Hebrew calendar5508–5509
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1804–1805
 - Shaka Samvat1669–1670
 - Kali Yuga4848–4849
Holocene calendar11748
Igbo calendar748–749
Iranian calendar1126–1127
Islamic calendar1160–1162
Japanese calendarEnkyō 5 / Kan'en 1
(寛延元年)
Javanese calendar1672–1673
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4081
Minguo calendar164 before ROC
民前164年
Nanakshahi calendar280
Thai solar calendar2290–2291
Tibetan calendar阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
1874 or 1493 or 721
    — to —
阳土龙年
(male Earth-Dragon)
1875 or 1494 or 722
October 12: Battle of Havana

1748 (MDCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1748th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 748th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1748, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

  • July 29Royal Navy Admiral Edward Boscawen arrives at the coast of southeastern India with 28 ships, to defend Fort St. David from attacks by armies of French India. Historian Francis Grose later writes that Boscawen had brought the largest fleet "ever seen together in the East Indies", with nine ships of the line, two frigates, a sloop, and two tenders" and 14 ships of the British East India Company. Altogether, Boscawen has 3,580 sailors under his command. He then launches an offensive to destroy the French fort at Pondicherry and drive France from the subcontinent.
  • August 26 – The first Lutheran Church body in America is founded at a conference in Philadelphia, organized by German-born evangelist Henry Muhlenberg and attended by pastors of orthodox and pious Lutheran communities. The two groups agree to create a common liturgy to govern public worship.
  • August – The Camberwell beauty butterfly is named after specimens found at Camberwell in London.
  • September 24Shah Rukh becomes ruler of Greater Khorasan.

October –December

Date unknown


Births

Jeremy Bentham
Jacques-Louis David

Deaths

William Kent

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