1745 in France

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1745
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France

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Decades:
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See also:Other events of 1745
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Events from the year 1745 in France.

Incumbents[]

  • Monarch: Louis XV

Events[]

May 11: Battle of Fontenoy.
  • May 11 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Fontenoy – French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army including the Black Watch.[1]
  • July 9 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Melle – The French are victorious in an engagement against the Pragmatic Allies.
  • September 14 – Madame de Pompadour is officially presented in the court of Louis XV of France.

Births[]

  • January 6 – Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799)
  • April 20 – Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826)
  • July 8 – Sara Banzet, educator and diarist (d. 1774)

Deaths[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 310–311. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
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