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Events

- At Fontenoy , French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch

June 4 – Frederick The Great destroys Austria n army at Hohenfriedberg

August 19 - Beginning of the '45 Jacobite Rising at Glenfinnan

September 12 - Francis I is elected Holy Roman Emperor with the support of his wife, Maria Theresia Of Austria . He is the successor of Charles VII Albert of Bavaria , an enemy of Habsburg , who died on January 20 of this year.

September 14 - Madame De Pompadour is officially presented in the court of Louis XV Of France

December 25 – Treaty Of Dresden gives Prussia full possession of Silesia

Last execution for Witchcraft in France

For five days fire destroys buildings in Istanbul .

Ongoing events

War Of The Austrian Succession ( 1740 - 1748 )

Births

February 18 - Alessandro Volta , Italian physicist (d. 1827 )

February 20 - Henry James Pye , English poet (d. 1813 )

September 16 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov , Russian field marshal (d. 1813 )

December 15 - Johann Gottfried Koehler , German astronomer (d. 1801 )

Kim Hongdo , Korean painter

Francis Asbury , American Methodist Bishop (d. 1816 )

Deaths

January 20 - Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1697 )

March 18 - Robert Walpole , first Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom (b. 1676 )

May 22 - François-Marie, 1st Duc De Broglie , French military leader (b. 1671 )

October 19 - Jonathan Swift , Irish writer (b. 1667 )

November 16 - James Butler, 2nd Duke Of Ormonde , Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665 )

December 8 - Etienne Fourmont , French orientalist (b. 1683 )

December 19 - Jean-Baptiste Van Loo , French painter (b. 1684 )