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174t. A comet appeared ; tte ASTRONOMY, p. 815. The 

 attempt uf the French to invade Britain defeated, 

 Naval engagement between the French 

 and English fleets off Toulon, Feb 22. War 

 between Britain and France. War between 

 Hungary and France, April 17. Surrenderor 

 Menin, June. The king of Prussia take* 

 Prague, Sept. 16. Friburg surrenders to the 

 French, Nov. I. Commodore A nson completes 

 his voyage round the world. Henry Pelham, 

 ob. 1754, it. 60. 



1745. Quadruple alliance between Britain, Austria, Hoi- 



land, and Poland, Jan. 8. The Austrians de- 

 feat the French at Psafftnhofen, April 4. Bat- 

 tle of Fontenoy, April 30. Shah Nadir de- 

 feats the Turks at Erzcrum in May. The 

 Prussians defeat the Austrians at Striegau, JUDO 

 4, The French take Tournay, Ghent, Bruges, 

 Oudenarde, Dendermondc, Ostend, Newport, 

 and Aeth, beween June 8. and Oct. 9. The 

 English take Louisbourg and Cape Breton, 

 June 6. The rebellion in Scotland begins in 

 July. The Austrians defeated by the Prussians 

 at Sohr, Sept. 19. Battle of Prestonpans, Sept. 

 21. Treaty of Dresden, between Austria, Prus- 

 sia, Poland, and Saxony, Dec. 25. The duke 

 of Cumberland takes Carlisle, Dec. 30. Dr 

 MiJdlcton, ob. 1750, act. 67. Marshal Saxe, 

 ob. 1750, xt. 54. 



1746. Battle of Falkirk, Jan. 17. Peace between Per- 



sia and Turkey in January. Count Saxe takes 

 Brussels, Feb. 20. and soon after Antwerp. 

 Battle of Culloden, April 16. Alliance of Pe- 

 tersburg, between Russia and Austria, May 22. 

 The prince of Conti takes Mons, July 10, and 

 Chirferoi, Aug. 2. Namur taken by Count 

 Clennont, Sept. 19. The allies defeated by 

 Saxe at Reucoux, Oct. 11. Lima destroyed by 

 an earthquake, Oct. 17. Hogarth, ob. 1764, 

 an. 67. Duke of Cumberland, ob. 1765, zt. 45. 



1747. Anson and Warren defeat the French fleet, May 



3. A comet appeared ; see ASTKONOMY, p. 815. 

 The prince of Orange elected Stadtholder of 

 the United Provinces, May 2. Alliance of 

 Stockholm, between Prussia, Poland, and Swe- 

 den, May 29. Admiral Hawke defeats the 

 French fleet, Oct. 14. The French take Ber- 

 gen-op-Zoom, Sept. 5. Kouli Khan murdered. 

 A revolution in Persia. James Cassini, ob. 1756, 

 xt. 79. Lord Anson, ob. 1762, xt. 62. 



1748. Two comets appeared ; see ASTRONOMY, p. 815. 



The French take Maestricht, May 7. Peace 

 of Aix-b-Chapelle, between Britain, France, 

 Spain, Austria, Sardinia, and Holland, Oct. 7. 

 Benjamin Robins, ob. 1751, an. 44. Sir John 

 Barnard, ob. 1764, xt. 80. 



1749. Nova Scotia colonized. A league against the 



Corsairs of Algiers and Tunis, between the 

 Pope, Venetians, &c. La Place born, March 

 23. Bouguer, ob. 1758, xt. 61. Philip, earl of 

 Chesterfield, ob. 1773, xt. 79. 



1750. A large meteoric stone fell on St Peter's day at 



Niort.nearConstancein Normandy. Two shocks 

 of an earthquake in England, Feb. 8, and March 

 8. An academy of sciences founded at Stock- 

 holm. Treaty of commerce between Spain and 

 Britain, Oct. 5. Belidor, ob. 1761, Set. 64. 

 Earl Bathum, ob. 1775, xt. 91. 



A. D. 



1751. 



1752. 



1753. 



1754. 



1755. 



1756. 



1757. 



1758. 



Two meteoric stones, one weighing 71, and the 

 other 16 pounds, fell in the district of A gram in 

 Croatia. Peace between Portugal and Spain. 

 Frederic, prince of Wales, dies, March '20, xt. 

 44. Thomas Simpson, ob. 1761. 



Franklin discovers the identity between electricity 

 and lightning. The new style introduced into 

 Britain, Sept. 3. reckoned the 14 th. La Caille, 

 ob. 1762, xt. 49. Franklin, ob. 1790, xt. 85. 



Meteoric stones fell near Eichstadt in Germany, 

 on January. Other two, one of 20, and another 

 of 1 1 pounds weight, fell in Bresse-bock, in Sep- 

 tember ; and a shower of stones fell on the 3d Ju- 

 ly, near Tabor in Bohemia. The British Muse- 

 um established by act of parliament. China ware 

 made at Chelsea. Dr Edward Young, ob. 1765, 

 xt. 83. 



A dreadful eruption of ./Etna. A great earth- 

 quake at Constantinople, &c. Sept. 2. Dr John 

 Leland, ob. 1766, xt. 75. John duke of Bed- 

 ford, ob. 1771, xt. 61. 



A meteoric stone fell in the country of Terra 

 Nova, weighing 7^ pounds. War between tlv 

 Algerines and Dutch, April 10. Quito destroy - 

 ed by an earthquake, April 28. Braddock kill- 

 ed near Fort de Quesne, July 9. A convention be- 

 tween Britain and Russia, Sept. 30. Lisbon de- 

 stroyed by an earthquake, Nov. 1. Dr Birch, ob. 

 1766, xt. 61. Admiral Boscawen, ob. 1761, 

 xt. 50. 



Treaty between Britain and Prussia, Feb. 16. 

 Eugland makes war upon France, May 17. Ana- 

 val engagement between the English and French 

 off Minorca, May 20. Minorca surrendered to 

 the French, June 28. Oswega taken, Aug. 14. 

 Dr Robert Smith, ob. 1768, zt. 79. William 

 Pitt, earl of Chatham, ob. 1778, xt. 70. The 

 Austrians defeated at Lowoschutz, by the king 

 of Prussia, Oct. 1. 



Damien's conspiracy against the French king, Jan. 

 5. The king of Prussia invades Bohemia. The 

 king of Prussia defeats the Austrians at the battle 

 of Prague, May 6. The battle of Kollin, June 

 18, in which the king of Prussia is repulsed by 

 count Daun. The battle of Plaissy, in the East 

 Indies, June 23. The battle of Hastenbeck, 

 July 26, in which the French defeat the allies. 

 The French take Verdun, Aug. 26, and Bre- 

 men, 3 days afterwards. The convention of Clot- 

 ter-seven, Sept. 8. A comet appeared ; see AS- 

 TRONOMY, p. 815. The battle of Rosbeck, Nov. 

 5, in which the Prussians defeat the French and 

 Austrians. The Austrians defeat the Prussians 

 near Breslaw, Nov. 2'2. The Prussians defeat the 

 Austrians at Lessa, Dec. 5 ; take Breslaw, Dec. 

 '21 ; and become masters of Silesia. Archbishop 

 Seeker, ob. 1768, xt. 75. 



Minden reduced by Pr. Ferdinand, March 14. A 

 treaty between Britain and Prussia, April 11. 

 The English take Senegal, May 1. The French 

 defeated by Pr. Ferdinand at Crevelt, June 23. 

 The English repulsed at Ticonderaoo, July 8. 

 The English take Louisburg, July 27, and 

 Cherburg, Aug. 6. The Prussians defeated at 

 Frankfort, Aug. 12, and at Hockkirchen, Oct. 

 14, by the Austrians. The Russians defeated by 

 the Prussians, at Zorndorf, Aug. 25. The allies 

 defeated at Landwcrnhagen, Oct. 10. The Pru- 



