1748

1748 (MDCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1748th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 748th year of the 2nd millennium, the 48th year of the 18th century, and the 9th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1748, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  – 1740s –  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1745 1746 1747 – 1748 – 1749 1750 1751

1748 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1748 MDCCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita	2501
Armenian calendar	1197 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԷ
Assyrian calendar	6498
Balinese saka calendar	1669–1670
Bengali calendar	1155
Berber calendar	2698
British Regnal year	21 Geo. 2 – 22 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2292
Burmese calendar	1110
Byzantine calendar	7256–7257
Chinese calendar	丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4444 or 4384     — to — 戊辰年 (Earth Dragon) 4445 or 4385
Coptic calendar	1464–1465
Discordian calendar	2914
Ethiopian calendar	1740–1741
Hebrew calendar	5508–5509
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1804–1805
- Shaka Samvat	1669–1670
- Kali Yuga	4848–4849
Holocene calendar	11748
Igbo calendar	748–749
Iranian calendar	1126–1127
Islamic calendar	1160–1162
Japanese calendar	Enkyō 5 / Kan'en 1 (寛延元年)
Javanese calendar	1672–1673
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4081
Minguo calendar	164 before ROC 民前164年
Nanakshahi calendar	280
Thai solar calendar	2290–2291
Tibetan calendar	阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1874 or 1493 or 721     — to — 阳土龙年 (male Earth-Dragon) 1875 or 1494 or 722

Events

• July 25 - A Solar eclipse happened. It was one of the reasons Charles Messier became an astrologer.

Births

for more information, see Category:1748 births.

• February 15 – Jeremy Bentham

Deaths

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