Film & TV History
Feb 15 Colley Cibber's play "Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John" premieres in London
Siege of Inverness
Feb 18 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness, Scotland
- Feb 20 Jacobite troops occupy Fort Augustus, Scotland
- Mar 9 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston [1]
- Mar 31 Jews are expelled from Prague
- Apr 22 Austria & Bavaria sign Peace Treaty of Füssen, ending Bavaria's participation (on the French side) in the War of the Austrian Succession
- May 11 Battle of Fontenoy (Doornik): Austrian Succession war
Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie
Jun 4 Battle at Hohenfriedberg Silezie: Frederick the Great (Prussia) defeats Austrians and Saxons
- Jun 16 British fleet occupies Cape Breton on St Lawrence River
- Jun 17 American colonials capture Louisburg, Cape Breton Island from French
- Jun 22 Bonnie Prince Charles sails to Scotland
- Jul 7 Bonnie Prince Charlie boards French ship ‘Du Teillay’ at St Nazaire accompanied by the warship Elisabeth bound for Scotland [OS]
- Jul 9 French ships carrying Bonnie Prince Charlie to Scotland, the Du Teillay and the Elisabeth, battle HMS Lion eventually escaping, with 107 killed on both sides [1]
- Jul 23 Charles Edward Stuart, "the Young Pretender" or Bonnie Prince Charlie, lands at Eriskay Island, Hebrides beginning the final Jacobite Rebellion
- Aug 5 Jacobite Rising 1745: Jacobite forces capture British company of troops under Captain Scott
- Aug 19 Jacobite Rising 1745 : Bonnie Prince Charlie, raises his standard at Glenfinnan, Scotland, igniting the second Jacobite rebellion.
- Aug 31 Jacobite Rising 1745: Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland
- Sep 17 Edinburgh occupied by Jacobites under Charles Edward Stuart (aka the Young Pretender or Bonny Prince Charlie)
- Sep 21 Battle of Preston Pans: Bonnie Prince Charles beats British government army
- Sep 22 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army returns to Edinburgh
- Oct 14 French help convoy reaches Montrose Scotland
- Nov 11 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army invades England, in attempt to restore House of Stuart to the British throne
- Nov 18 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army occupy Carlisle during its invasion of England
- Nov 28 French troops and Indian forces attack Saratoga, NY, killing many and taking prisoners
- Nov 29 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle
- Dec 4 Bonnie Prince Charles reaches Derby
- Dec 6 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army retreats to Scotland
- Dec 10 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army reaches Manchester
- Dec 15 Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussian force beats Saksen & Austria near Dresden
- Dec 20 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army reaches the river Esk, North Yorkshire
- Dec 25 Prussia and Austria sign Treaty of Dresden giving much of Silesia to the Prussians
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