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| 1744 |
| | | Alexander Pope is buried in St Mary's Church. | |
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| 1744 |
| | | France formally declares war on Britain half way through the War of the Austrian Succession | |
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| 1744 |
| | | The Muslim reformer Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab makes an alliance with Muhammad ibn Saud, of significance to the later Saudi dynasty | |
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| 1744 |
| | | J.S. Bach publishes another set of 24 Preludes and Fugues, as an addition to his previous Well-Tempered Clavier | |
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| 1744 |
| | | Franklin publishes his design for an improved stove in Account of the New Invented Pennsylvania Fire Place | |
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| 1744 |
| | | Bad weather causes the French to abandon a plan to invade Britain with the Scottish pretender Charles Edward Stuart | |
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| 1744 |
| | | Alexander Pope dies and Pope's Villa and grounds are bought by Sir William Stanhope. | |
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| 1745 |
| | | New England militiamen achieve an unexpected success in capturing the fortress of Louisbourg from the French | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Maurice de Saxe, with a French army including an Irish brigade, defeats British, Austrian and Dutch forces at Fontenoy | |
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| 1745 |
| | | The principle of the Leyden jar is discovered by an amateur German physicist, Ewald Georg von Kleist, dean of the cathedral in Kamin | |
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