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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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| 1745 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart lands at Eriskay in the Hebrides, launching the Forty-Five Rebellion | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart gathers support for the Forty-Five Rebellion on his way south from the Hebrides and reaches Edinburgh | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Charles Edward Stuart marches as far south as Derby, but then turns back | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Frederick the Great's Prussian soldiers, advancing in shallow disciplined formation, outclass other armies of the time | |
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| 1745 |
| | | Frederick II's three victories in 1745 cause him to be known by his contemporaries as Frederick the Great | |
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