Events from the year 1746 in Great Britain. Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Henry Pelham (Whig) 8 January – Jacobite rising: Charles Edward Stuart...
6 KB (581 words) - 16:23, 27 July 2024
The Dress Act 1746, also known as the Disclothing Act, was part of the Act of Proscription which came into force on 1 August 1746 and made wearing "the...
7 KB (613 words) - 00:04, 12 June 2024
Battle of Rocoux (redirect from Battle of Raucoux (1746))
Flanders, by 1746 France was struggling to finance the war, and opened bilateral peace negotiations with Britain at the Congress of Breda in August. While...
18 KB (2,010 words) - 20:40, 24 February 2024
Battle of Falkirk Muir (redirect from Battle of Falkirk (1746))
January 1746 during the Jacobite rising of 1745. A narrow Jacobite victory, it had little impact on the campaign. After their withdrawal from England in December...
22 KB (2,503 words) - 02:22, 1 May 2024
Battle of Culloden (category 1746 in Great Britain)
on 16 April 1746, near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands. A Jacobite army under Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government...
64 KB (7,623 words) - 12:40, 20 August 2024
Events from the year 1746 in Scotland. Secretary of State for Scotland: The Marquess of Tweeddale, until 3 January; then vacant until 1885 Lord Advocate...
5 KB (429 words) - 23:02, 14 August 2024
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1746. 1746 (MDCCXLVI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
11 KB (1,365 words) - 04:37, 17 February 2024
The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800. The state was created by the 1706 Treaty of Union and...
84 KB (9,881 words) - 16:22, 10 July 2024
Proscription 1746 or the Disarming the Highlands, etc. Act 1745, was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, which came into effect in Scotland on 1...
7 KB (559 words) - 13:52, 10 May 2024
Jacobite rising of 1745 (redirect from Jacobite rising in 1745)
Retrieved 14 April 2018. Lenman, Bruce (1980). The Jacobite Risings in Britain 1689–1746. Methuen Publishing. ISBN 978-0413396501. Lewis, William (1977)....
66 KB (8,062 words) - 00:56, 23 August 2024
United Kingdom (redirect from Great Britain and Northern Ireland)
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off...
355 KB (30,993 words) - 17:11, 25 August 2024
The Hon. Richard Trevor The Wales and Berwick Act 1746 is passed by the Parliament of Great Britain. It specifies that all future laws applying to England...
6 KB (610 words) - 02:02, 13 October 2023
The Wales and Berwick Act 1746 (20 Geo. 2. c. 42) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that created a statutory definition of England as including...
5 KB (563 words) - 11:36, 10 May 2024
Parliament of Great Britain from 1746". legislation.gov.uk. The National Archives. The first session of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain, which met from...
152 KB (1,095 words) - 17:40, 15 August 2024
The siege of Fort Augustus took place from 22 February to 1 March 1746, during the Jacobite rising of 1745. After a short siege, the government garrison...
6 KB (624 words) - 12:33, 20 August 2024
Siege of Fort William (category 1746 in Great Britain)
Fort William took place in the Scottish Highlands during the 1745 Jacobite Rising, from 20 March to 3 April 1746. On 1 February 1746, the Jacobites abandoned...
13 KB (1,482 words) - 12:37, 20 August 2024
article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing through...
66 KB (695 words) - 03:35, 27 July 2024
George Richards (English politician) (redirect from George Richards (died 1746))
November 1746) was an English politician who was Member of Parliament for Bridport from 1741 to 1746 in the 9th Parliament of Great Britain. Richards...
2 KB (70 words) - 21:09, 20 April 2024
Louise of Great Britain (originally Louisa; 18 December [O.S. 7 December] 1724 – 19 December 1751) was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1746 until her...
33 KB (3,238 words) - 20:41, 25 August 2024
August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector...
56 KB (6,726 words) - 17:28, 20 August 2024
Marquess of Rockingham (category Extinct marquessates in the Peerage of Great Britain)
Marquess of Rockingham, in the County of Northampton, was a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1746 for Thomas Watson-Wentworth...
6 KB (567 words) - 18:46, 31 October 2023
involving the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and its predecessor states (the Kingdom of Great Britain, Kingdom of England, Kingdom...
113 KB (2,791 words) - 11:27, 24 August 2024
The Parliament of Great Britain was formed in May 1707 following the ratification of the Acts of Union by both the Parliament of England and the Parliament...
17 KB (1,296 words) - 01:26, 4 June 2024
Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover...
60 KB (6,788 words) - 17:27, 20 August 2024
Mary of Great Britain (5 March 1723 – 14 January 1772) was the second-youngest daughter of George II of Great Britain and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach...
9 KB (615 words) - 15:41, 14 August 2024
and Northern Ireland as one sovereign state, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Those who support the union are referred to as...
31 KB (3,122 words) - 08:08, 2 June 2024
Kingdom of Great Britain after 1707, was at times represented by a separate Secretary of State for Scotland, though at others (1725–1741 and 1746–1782) it...
5 KB (338 words) - 17:28, 26 April 2023
The action of 6 July 1746 was an inconclusive naval engagement between the British and French fleets during the War of the Austrian Succession. The English...
4 KB (197 words) - 12:45, 20 August 2024
Robert R. Livingston (redirect from Robert R. Livingston (1746-1813))
Robert Robert Livingston (November 27, 1746 (Old Style November 16) – February 26, 1813) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat from New York...
24 KB (2,108 words) - 08:43, 24 August 2024
Earl of Buckinghamshire (category Earldoms in the Peerage of Great Britain)
Earl of Buckinghamshire is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1746 for John Hobart, 1st Baron Hobart. The Hobart family descends...
14 KB (1,269 words) - 20:55, 18 December 2023