April 9 » Robert Cavelier de La Salle discovers the mouth of the Mississippi River, claims it for France and names it Louisiana.
May 6 » Louis XIV of France moves his court to the Palace of Versailles.
August 24 » William Penn receives the area that is now the state of Delaware, and adds it to his colony of Pennsylvania.
September 14 » Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, is founded.
October 27 » Philadelphia is founded in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Day of death March 27, 1745
The temperature on March 27, 1745 was about 10.0 °C. There was 51 mm of rainWind direction mainly west. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
May 11 » War of the Austrian Succession: French forces defeat an Anglo-Dutch–Hanoverian army.
June 4 » Battle of Hohenfriedberg: Frederick the Great's Prussian army decisively defeated an Austrian army under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine during the War of the Austrian Succession.
June 16 » War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date).
July 26 » The first recorded women's cricket match takes place near Guildford, England.
September 21 » A Hanoverian army is defeated, in ten minutes, by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart
December 4 » Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the Second Jacobite Rising.
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