May 27 – The three Scottish leaders of the
Jacobite uprising— the
Earl of Kilmarnock,
Lord Balmerino, and
Lord Lovat— are imprisoned for treason in the
Tower of London, where they are held by the British government until their execution. Boyd and Balmerino are beheaded in August, while Fraser is not put to death until April 1747.[7]
July 3 – Father Joachim Royo, the last of the five Spanish Catholic missionaries to
Fuzhou in
China, is captured by Chinese authorities, after having spent three decades defying orders to not evangelize.[8] He and three fellow priests are put to death two years later, on October 28, 1748.
November 4 –
Anwaruddin Khan, the Nawab of the
Arcot State in South India, is driven back by the Captain Louis Paradis of the French Army after he and 10,000 soldiers attempt to drive the French back out of
Madras.[9]
Charles Batteux's Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe is published in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of "les beaux arts": "the
fine arts".
^Richard Davey, The Tower of London (E. P. Dutton, 1910) pp333-334
^
Anthony E. Clark, China's Saints: Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing (1644–1911) (Lexington Books, 2011) p73
^
Sir William W. Hunter, The History of Nations: India (John D. Morris, 1906) p179
^"Eighteenth Century", in Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, ed. by Micheal Clodfelter (McFarland, 2017) p77
May 27 – The three Scottish leaders of the
Jacobite uprising— the
Earl of Kilmarnock,
Lord Balmerino, and
Lord Lovat— are imprisoned for treason in the
Tower of London, where they are held by the British government until their execution. Boyd and Balmerino are beheaded in August, while Fraser is not put to death until April 1747.[7]
July 3 – Father Joachim Royo, the last of the five Spanish Catholic missionaries to
Fuzhou in
China, is captured by Chinese authorities, after having spent three decades defying orders to not evangelize.[8] He and three fellow priests are put to death two years later, on October 28, 1748.
November 4 –
Anwaruddin Khan, the Nawab of the
Arcot State in South India, is driven back by the Captain Louis Paradis of the French Army after he and 10,000 soldiers attempt to drive the French back out of
Madras.[9]
Charles Batteux's Les beaux-arts réduits à un même principe is published in Paris, putting forward for the first time the idea of "les beaux arts": "the
fine arts".
^Richard Davey, The Tower of London (E. P. Dutton, 1910) pp333-334
^
Anthony E. Clark, China's Saints: Catholic Martyrdom During the Qing (1644–1911) (Lexington Books, 2011) p73
^
Sir William W. Hunter, The History of Nations: India (John D. Morris, 1906) p179
^"Eighteenth Century", in Warfare and Armed Conflicts: A Statistical Encyclopedia of Casualty and Other Figures, 1492-2015, ed. by Micheal Clodfelter (McFarland, 2017) p77