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1745 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1745th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 745th year of the 2nd millennium, the 45th year of the 18th century, and the 6th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1745, the ...
The siege of Louisbourg took place in 1745 when a New England colonial force aided by a British fleet captured Louisbourg, the capital of the French province of Île-Royale (present-day Cape Breton Island) during the War of the Austrian Succession, known as King George's War in the British colonies.
The War of Jenkins' Ear (named for a 1731 incident in which a Spanish commander sliced off the ear of British merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, George II) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was restrained to the Caribbean Sea and conflict between Spanish Florida and the neighboring British Province of Georgia.
The King continued his grand construction projects, including the opera theater of the Palace of Versailles, completed for the celebration of the wedding of the Dauphin and Marie Antoinette, and the new Place Louis XV (now Place de la Concorde) in Paris, whose centerpiece was an equestrian statue of the King, modeled after that of Louis XIV on ...
As Louis XV was only five years old when he became king, France came under the rule of a regent, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (in office: 1715–1723). The Regent had little interest in continuing the persecution of Protestants. While the kingdom's laws did not change, their application diminished.
In British America, wars were often named after the sitting British monarch, such as King William's War or Queen Anne's War.There had already been a King George's War in the 1740s during the reign of King George II, so British colonists named this conflict after their opponents, and it became known as the French and Indian War. [13]
His eldest surviving son, Louis-Auguste, duc de Berry, became the new dauphin, [55] [54] ascending the throne as Louis XVI at the death of Louis XV, in May 1774. [56] Louis was buried in the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne in Sens [55] at the Monument to the Dauphin of France & Marie-Josephe of Saxony, designed and executed by Guillaume Coustou ...
Louis X of France (died 1316), called Louis the Quarreller; Louis XI of France (died 1483), called Louis the Prudent; Louis XII of France (died 1515) Louis XIII of France (died 1643), called Louis the Just; Louis XIV of France, the 'Sun King' Louis XV of France (died 1774), called the Louis the Beloved; Louis XVI of France (died 1793) executed ...