Jacobite Army Leaves Glasgow
Jan 14 "Bonnie Prince Charlie", Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Jacobite army leaves Glasgow, Scotland [OS=Jan 3]
- Jan 17 Battle of Falkirk Muir, the Jacobites under Charles Stuart defeat Hanoverian forces
- Jan 19 "Bonnie Prince Charlie", Prince Charles Edward Stuart's Jacobite army occupies Stirling, Scotland [OS=Jan 8]
Pelham Brothers Resign
Feb 10 The Pelham brothers resign from the British government, but resume office when King George II backs down.
- Feb 21 Jacobite Rising 1745: British forces surrender Inverness Castle to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite forces
- Feb 22 French troops conquer Brussels
- Feb 22 Jacobite troops vacate Aberdeen
- Feb 25 The Duke of Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
- Mar 5 Jacobite troops leave Aberdeen
- Mar 8 Duke of Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
- Apr 16 Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart
- May 22 Russia and Austria sign treaty of cooperation
- Jun 1 French troops conquer Antwerp
- Jun 2 Russia and Austria sign agreements
- Jun 16 Battle at Piacenza: Austria & Sardinia beat Spanish and French army
- Jun 27 Flora MacDonald helps Bonnie Prince Charlie, disguised as Betty Burke an Irish maid, evade capture by landing him on the Isle of Skye
- Jul 10 Scotland's Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye
- Sep 1 Dutch VOC ship Hofwegen struck by lighting and explodes off the coast of Batavia with six tons of silver aboard
- Sep 20 Scotland's Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland
- Sep 21 French expeditionary army occupies Labourdonnais and Dupleix Madras
- Sep 23 Jacob Gilles appointed Dutch pension advisor
- Oct 1 Scotland's Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France
- Oct 11 Battle of Rocoux: French defeat British, Austrian and Dutch armies
- Oct 22 Princeton University (NJ) received its charter
- Oct 28 Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao demolished by earthquake, 18,000 die
- Dec 5 Revolt in Genoa against Spanish rule.
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