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.[5]
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.[6] 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.[7]
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".
December 8 - Charles Radclyffe, British politician and rebel, by beheading after being convicted of treason against the Crown (b. 1693)
Notes and References
Cheryl Bentley, A Guide to the Palace Hotels of India (Hunter Publishing, 2011)
Geoffrey Plank, Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) pp61-62
George Edmundson, A History of Holland (Ozymandias Press, 2018)
Harish Jain, The Making of Punjab (Unistar Books, 2003) p193
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
