About the day » Tuesday August 2, 1746Calender converter

• Gisberta de Bie, Sint Oedenrode, 4197, Noord Brabant († 1788)
• Isack de Groot, Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland
• Hermijntje Oostendorp, Utrecht
• Anna Maria Aerts, Tessenderlo, België
• Anna Nieweert, Alstätte
• Anna Catharina van den Bogaert, Oisterwijk († 1812)
• Charles Barthélémy Routet, Montréal, 66023, Québec, Canada
• Anna Maria Bellemans, Gooik, België († 1813)
• Dirk de Vos, Haarlem († 1758)
• Carolus Judocus Matthijs, Ursel,, Oost-Vlaanderen, België

• Ingetje Ariënstdr Decker (77), Ouderkerk aan den IJssel (NL)
• Johannes Teegelaar (69)
• Margaretha Pfann (0), Lohe
• Morand SELLET (43), Bruebach (68440, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Antonia, Aloysia de Camiller (41), Roermond (L)
• Ingetje Decker (67), Ouderkerk aan de Ijssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Ingetje Decker (77), , Ouderkerk, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Ingetje Decker (67), Ouderkerk aan de Ijssel, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Godefridus Verhaegh (61), Helden,Li.NL
• Elisabeth Van de Wijngaerde (80), Asse

• 1672 » Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar († 1733)
• 1674 » Philippe II, Duke of Orléans († 1723)
• 1696 » Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan († 1754)
• 1702 » Dietrich of Anhalt-Dessau († 1769)
• 1703 » Lorenzo Ricci, Italian religious leader, 18th Superior General of the Society of Jesus († 1775)
• 1740 » Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general († 1817)
• 1754 » Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-American architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. († 1825)
• 1788 » Leopold Gmelin, German chemist and academic († 1853)
• 1815 » Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German poet and historian († 1894)
• 1820 » John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and mountaineer († 1893)

• 1667 » Francesco Borromini, Swiss architect, designed San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane and Sant'Agnese in Agone (b. 1599)
• 1696 » Robert Campbell of Glenlyon (b. 1630)
• 1769 » Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1689)
• 1788 » Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (b. 1727)
• 1799 » Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon (b. 1745)
• 1815 » Guillaume Brune, French general and politician (b. 1763)
• 1823 » Lazare Carnot, French mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention (b. 1753)
• 1834 » Harriet Arbuthnot, English diarist (b. 1793)
• 1849 » Muhammad Ali of Egypt, Ottoman Albanian commander (b. 1769)
• 1854 » Heinrich Clauren, German author (b. 1771)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• January 8 » Second Jacobite rising: Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling.
• April 16 » The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
• June 16 » War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza.
• October 22 » The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.

The temperature on August 2, 1746 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly west by south. Weather type: regen zeer betrokken.