1748 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to a full calendar).

Events

• April 24 - A congress assembles at Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) with the intent to conclude the struggle known as the War of Austrian Succession - at October 18 - The Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle is signed to end the war
• Adam Smith begins to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh
• Building of Sveaborg begins near Helsinki
• Henry Fielding organizes forerunner of the Bow Street Runners – eight men at first
• Ahmad Shah captures Lahore.
• Discovery of ruins of Pompeii

Births

• January 1 - Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (d. 1794)
• February 2 - Adam Weishaupt, German founder of the Order of the Illuminati (d. 1811)
• February 9 - Luther Martin, American politician (d. 1826)
• February 15 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher and writer (d. 1832)
• February 22 - Timothy Dexter, American businessman (d. 1806)
• February 27 - Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist (d. 1820)
• March 5 - William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829)
• March 5 - Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
• March 8 - Prince William V of Orange (d. 1806)
• March 10 - John Playfair, Scottish scientist (d. 1819)
• April 12 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (d. 1836)
• April 27 - Pierre-Louis Ginguené, French author (d. 1815)
• April 27 - Adamantios Korais, Greek scholar (d. 1833)
• May 3 - Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, French cleric and constitutional theorist (d. 1836)
• May 7 - Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (d. 1793)
• May 28 - Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle (d. 1825)
• June 8 - William Few, American politician (d. 1828)
• June 30 - Jacques Dominique, comte de Cassini, French astronomer (d. 1845)
• August 8 - Johann Friedrich Gmelin, German naturalist (d. 1804)
• August 30 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
• October 7 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (Charles II of Norway) (d. 1818)
• October 13 - Johann Dominicus Fiorillo, German painter and art historian (d. 1821)
• October 19 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, wife of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1782)
• November 11 - King Charles IV of Spain (d. 1819)
• December 9 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
• December 14 - William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire (d. 1811)
• Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, French ornithologist (d. 1831)
• James Sayers, English caricaturist (d. 1823)
• William Chalmers, Swedish merchant (d. 1811)

Deaths

• January 1 - Johann Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (b. 1667)
• January 16 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
• February 18 - Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg und Traun, Austrian field marshal (b. 1677)
• March 14 - George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
• March 23 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)
• April 12 - William Kent, English architect
• May 12 - Thomas Lowndes, British astronomer (b. 1692)
• August 27 - James Thomson, Scottish poet (b. 1700)
• September 6 - Edmund Gibson, English jurist (b. 1669)
• September 12 - Anne Bracegirdle, English actress
• September 21 - John Balguy, English philosopher (b. 1686)
• November 25 - Isaac Watts, English hymn writer (b. 1674)
• December 2 - Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (b. 1662)
• Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)

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