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Events from the year 1745 in Great Britain. Incumbents- Monarch – George II
- Prime Minister – Henry Pelham (Whig)
- Parliament – 9th
Events- 30 April–11 May – War of the Austrian Succession: British forces defeated at the Battle of Fontenoy.[1]
- 16 June – King George's War: British capture Cape Breton Island in North America from the French.[1]
- 26 June – the earliest known women's cricket match, at Gosden Common in Surrey.[2]
- 23 July – Jacobite rising: The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart lands on Eriskay in the Hebrides in Scotland.[1]
- 15 August–26 August – War of the Austrian Succession: By the Convention of Hanover, King George II makes peace overtures to Prussia and ends support for Austria.[1]
- 16 August – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at Highbridge Skirmish.
- 19 August – Jacobite rising: Charles Stuart raises his standard at Glenfinnan.
- 11 September – Jacobite rising: Jacobites enter Edinburgh.[1]
- 16 September – Jacobite rising: "Canter of Coltbrigg": The 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites near Edinburgh.
- 17 September – Jacobite rising: in Edinburgh, Charles Stuart proclaims his father James Francis Edward Stuart as James VIII of Scotland.[1]
- 21 September – Jacobite rising: Government forces are defeated at the Battle of Prestonpans.[3]
- 28 September – the song later to become the British national anthem "God Save the King" is first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre in London in a setting by Thomas Arne.[3]
- 13 November–15 November – Jacobite rising: Jacobites besiege and capture Carlisle.
- December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite garrison in Carlisle surrenders to Hanoverian forces under Prince William, Duke of Cumberland.
- 4 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces reach Derby causing panic in London.[1]
- 6 December – Jacobite rising: Jacobite forces decide to retreat to Scotland.[1]
- 18 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Clifton Moor Skirmish,[1] the last action between two military forces on English soil.[4]
- 23 December – Jacobite rising: A Jacobite victory at the Battle of Inverurie.
Undated- West towers of Westminster Abbey completed.[2]
- The term "middle class" is first used.[5][6]
Publications- Henry Fielding edits the pro-government publication The True Patriot.[1]
Births- 23 January – William Jessop, civil engineer (died 1814)
- 2 February – John Nichols, printer and author (died 1826)
- 14 February – Lady Sarah Lennox, courtier (died 1826)
- 20 February – Henry James Pye, poet (died 1813)
- 4 March – Charles Dibdin, composer (died 1814)
- 12 May – William Creech, Scottish bookseller and Lord Provost of Edinburgh (died 1815)
- 17 October – William Scott, 1st Baron Stowell, judge and jurist (died 1836)
Deaths- 18 March – Robert Walpole, first Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1676)
- 28 May – Jonathan Richardson, portrait painter, writer on art and collector (born 1667)
- 10 October – Jonathan Swift, satirist (born 1667)
References1. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=310–311}}
2. ^1 {{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer|first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=217–218|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}
3. ^1 {{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
4. ^Unless the Battle of Graveney Marsh (1940) is counted.
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/118147?redirectedFrom=middle%20class|title=middle class, n. and adj.|work=Oxford English Dictionary online version|date=March 2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=2012-05-18}} {{OEDsub}}
6. ^{{cite book|first=James|last=Bradshaw|title=A scheme to prevent the running of Irish wools to France: and Irish woollen goods to foreign countries. By prohibiting the importation of Spanish wools into Ireland, ... Humbly offered to the consideration of Parliament. By a Merchant of London|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AJdbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA4|accessdate=2012-05-18|year=1745|location=London|publisher=printed for J. Smith, and G. Faulkner|pages=4–5}}
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