May 11 Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war

May 11 Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik) Austrian Succession war

Jan 06 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow

Jan 08 England, Austria, Netherlands & Saxon sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance

Jan 06 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws to Glasgow

Jan 06 The birth of Jaques Montgolfier, French inventor who built first hot air balloon

Feb 18 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness Scotland

Feb 15 Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London

Feb 20 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Fort August, Scotland

Feb 18 The birth of Alessandro Volta, Italian scientist

Apr 20 The birth of Philippe Pinel, First psychiatrist

Nov 17 Prince Charles Edward Stewart, accompanied by pipers, entered Carlysle following the surrender of the city to the Jacobite Army.

Sep 21 Hanovarian army under the command of John Cope were surprised and overwhelmingly defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stewart in the Battle of Prestonpans

Sep 28 The British national anthem, God Save The King, sung for the first time

Jun 04 Prussians defeat Austrians at Hohenfriedeberg

Jun 17 American colonials capture the French fort Louisburg on Cape Breton Island

Dec 06 Charles Edward Stewart and the Jacobite Army retreated from Derby, England.

Dec 25 Treaty of Dresden gives much of Silesia to the Prussians

Dec 18 Skirmish at Clifton where retreating Jacobite forces under Lord George Murray, defeated General Bland's Hanoverian troops. The last battle to be fought on English soil.

Mar 09 The first carillon was shipped from England to Boston, MA.

Mar 18 Death of Sir Robert Walpole, British Whig statesman and prime minister for a record 21 years

Mar 31 Jews are expelled from Prague

Mar 09 Bells for first American carillon shipped from England to Boston