1746

Catharine de Ricci (born 1522) canonized.
Town of Vilkovo (Odes'ka oblast', Ukraine) is founded.
North Carolina Governor Gabriel Johnston moves to the province's largest and most prosperous city of New Bern. As a result, New Bern replaces Edenton as the capital of North Carolina (a title it holds until Raleigh is established in 1792).

January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling
January 17 - British Government forces suffer a defeat to Jacobite forces at the Battle of Falkirk

August 1 - Wearing of the kilt banned in Scotland by the Dress Act
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

January 12 - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss pedagogue (d. 1827)
January 24 - King Gustav III of Sweden (d. 1792)
February 4 - Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish general and nationalist (d. 1817)
February 5 - Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, American politician and soldier (d. 1825)
March 7 - André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
March 30 - Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (d. 1828)
July 3 - Henry Grattan, Irish politician (d. 1820)
July 7 - Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian astronomer (d. 1826)
September 28 - Sir William Jones, English philologist (d. 1794)
November 27 - Robert R. Livingston, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)

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