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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1748. 1748 (MDCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on...
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    Dauphine died aged 20, three days after giving birth to a daughter who died in 1748. Born at the Royal Alcazar of Madrid in Spain, she was the second daughter...
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  • Events from the year 1748 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II Governor General of New France: Roland-Michel Barrin...
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    The 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle, sometimes called the Treaty of Aachen, ended the War of the Austrian Succession, following a congress assembled on...
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    Hyderabad State, India. The first Carnatic wars were fought between 1740 and 1748. The conflicts involved numerous nominally independent rulers and their vassals...
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  • Manupur was fought between the Mughal Empire and the Durrani Empire in March 1748 near Sirhind which ended in victory for the Indian coalition. Following the...
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    People in North America, that Hall was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, in 1748. Grimshaw believed Hall was the son of English leather merchant Thomas Hall...
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    November 1748 the ship made its first attempt but returned on 19 November 1748 due to an adverse wind. The ship made a second attempt on 21 November 1748, which...
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    the Austrian Succession was a European conflict fought between 1740 and 1748, primarily in Central Europe, the Austrian Netherlands, Italy, the Atlantic...
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    Alexander Macomb (1748–1831) was an American fur trader, merchant and land speculator known for purchasing nearly four million acres from the state of...
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    Empress Xiaoxianchun (category 1748 deaths)
    Empress Xiaoxianchun (28 March 1712 – 8 April 1748), of the Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner Fuca clan, was the first wife of the Qianlong Emperor. She was...
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    Elisabeth Sophie of Brandenburg (5 April 1674 – 22 November 1748), was a Duchess consort of Courland by marriage to Duke Frederick Casimir Kettler of Courland...
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  • William Adams (died 28 September 1748) was an officer of the Royal Navy. He served in the East Indies during the War of the Austrian Succession and was...
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    duly changed his name by a private Act of Parliament (22 Geo. 2. c. 3) of 1748. However in 1770, Samuel Swinfen also died without children and the Hall...
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  • August 1748 – October 1749 – Repeat (possible concert hall) performance by Bach of Handel's Brockes Passion HWV 48 in a version by Bach. 1748–1749 – Johann...
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    70-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 16 April 1748. She was built by Philemon Ewer at his East Cowes yard on the Isle of Wight...
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  • Hue and Cry Act 1748 Act of Parliament Parliament of Great Britain Long title An Act for remedying Inconveniencies which may happen by Proceedings in Actions...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1748. January – The play Yoshitsune Senbon Zakura (義経千本桜, Yoshitsune and the Thousand...
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    The Consolidation Act 1749 or the Navy Act 1748 (22 Geo. 2. c. 33) was an act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1749 to reorganize the Royal...
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    Abel Smith III (29 June 1748 – 22 January 1779) of Wilford House in the parish of Wilford, near Nottingham, England, was a British banker and politician...
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  • Hardi was a 64-gun ship of the line of the French Navy. Built from 1748, Hardi was activated during the Seven Years' War, departing Rochefort in March...
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    John Baring (born Johann Baring; 15 November 1697 – c. 1748) was a German-born British merchant. Born in the Duchies of Bremen and Verden, he subsequently...
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    Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria (born and died 17 September 1748) was the tenth child and the seventh daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis...
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  • Stephen de Lancey (1748 in New York City – 6 December 1798 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire) was Chief Justice of the Bahamas and Governor of Tobago. De Lancey...
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  • Shah, Shah (1736–1747) Adil Shah, Shah (1747–1748) Ebrahim Afshar, Shah (1748) Shahrokh Afshar, Shah (1748–1796) Persia: Zand dynasty (complete list) –...
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    Asiento, lit. 'War of the Agreement') was a conflict lasting from 1739 to 1748 between Britain and Spain. The majority of the fighting took place in New...
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  • William Stewart (c. 1706 – 3 May 1748) was a Scottish soldier and politician MP in the British Parliament. He was the third son of James Stewart, 5th Earl...
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  • محمد بن سعود, romanized: Saʿūd ibn ʿAbd al ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Saʿūd; 1748 – 27 April 1814) ruled the First Saudi State from 1803 to 1814. Saud annexed...
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    Maryport Harbour Act 1748 Act of Parliament Parliament of Great Britain Long title An Act for repairing, enlarging, and preserving, the Harbour of Ellenfoot...
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    from Continental Europe, its collapse and withdrawal of French support in 1748 ended Jacobitism as a serious political movement. Jacobite ideology originated...
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