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1748| 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1743–1760 | North America [town planning] | Paving city streets in the North American colonies becomes common, making the colonial streets drier and smoother than those in Britain. | | 1748 | Japan [theatre and dance] | The kabuki play Chushingura by the dramatist Takeda Izumo is first performed, in Japan. Based on an ancient legend, it becomes one of the best loved kabuki plays. | | 1748 | France [thought and scholarship] | French social philosopher Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu, publishes De l'Esprit des lois/The Spirit of the Laws. His major work, it has a profound effect on the development of political thinking. | | 1748 | Italy [archaeology] | Excavations unearth Pompeii, a Roman city buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Sponsored by King Charles III of Naples, the excavations are more systematic than any before. | | 1748 | Scotland [literature and language] | The Scottish writer Tobias George Smollett publishes his novel The Adventures of Roderick Random. | | 1748 | England [literature and language] | The English writer John Cleland publishes part of his novel The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (better known as Fanny Hill). The remainder is published in 1749. | | 1748 | Italy [maths] | Maria Gaetana Agnesi of Italy writes Instituzioni analitiche/Analytical Institutions. It contains an analysis of a curve that becomes known as ‘the witch of Agnesi’. | | 18 October 1748 | Holy Roman Empire, Prussia, Silesia, Germany [treaties] | By the Peace of Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), ending the War of the Austrian Succession, there is a general recognition of Francis I as Holy Roman Emperor and of King Frederick II the Great of Prussia's conquest of Silesia. The Pragmatic Sanction, setting out the legitimacy of Maria Theresa of Austria's succession to the Habsburg domains, is also generally recognized. The French evacuate the Austrian Netherlands, recognize George II as king of Great Britain and Ireland, and transfer the Indian city of Madras (now Chennai) to Britain in exchange for Louisbourg (on Cape Breton Island), Nova Scotia. The Spanish Bourbons achieve the ambitions of their mother Elizabeth Farnese: Don Philip acquires the Italian duchies of Parma, Piacenza, and Guastalla, while King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia receives the Upper Novara and Vigevano in Milan. All other conquests are restored. |
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Alexander Balus
Altnikol, Johann Christoph
Boscawen, Edward
Bracegirdle, Anne
Brackenridge, Hugh Henry
Carlyle, Alexander
Charles XIII
Ciampi, Vincenzo Legrenzio
Dupleix, Joseph-François
Fitzwilliam, William Wentworth, Viscount Fitzwilliam
| Frank, Johann Peter
Frelinghuysen, Theodorus Jacobus
Gibbs, Joseph
Goodhue, Benjamin
Gray, Thomas
Guadagni, Gaetano
Guadagnini, Giovanni Battista
Klopstock, Friedrich Gottlieb
Mass in B minor
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| Peace being declared between France and England in 1748, the governor had now an opportunity to sit at his ease in Grandfather's chair. Allan Melville, great-grandfather of Herman Melville, removed from Scotland to America in 1748, and established himself as a merchant in Boston. He was rewarded by the gift of sinecure offices from the government and did some further writing, including, probably, the patriotic lyric, 'Rule, Britannia,' and also pseudo-classical tragedies; but his only other poem of much importance is 'The Castle of Indolence' (a subject appropriate to his own good-natured, easy-going disposition), which appeared just before his death, in 1748. |