London; two days later it begins to retreat. December 17 – Two days after Prussian troops rout the Saxons at the Battle of Kesselsdorf, the Saxon capital of Dresden falls to Prussia's King Frederick the Great. December 18 – Jacobite rising of 1745 – Clifton Moor Skirmish: The Jacobites are victorious, in the last action between two military forces on English soil. December 23 – Jacobite rising of 1745 – Battle of Inverurie: The Jacobites are victorious over British royal troops. December 25 – The Treaty of Dresden gives Prussia full possession of Silesia. December 28 – For 5 days, fire destroys buildings in Istanbul. Births c. January – Isaac Titsingh, Dutch scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador (d. 1812) January 1 – Anthony Wayne, United States Army officer, statesman and member of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1796) January 6 – Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1799) January 7 – Johan Christian Fabricius, Danish zoologist (d. 1808) January 9 – Caleb Strong, American politician (d. 1819) February – Samuel Hearne, English explorer, fur-trader, author, and naturalist (d. 1792) February 2 – Hannah More, English religious writer, Romantic poet and philanthropist (d. 1833) February 18 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (d. 1827) February 20 – Henry James Pye, English poet (d. 1813) February 21 – Olof Tempelman, Swedish architect (d. 1816) March 4 Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814) Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779) March 10 – John Gunby, Maryland soldier in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1807) March 25 – John Barry, officer in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War and later in the United States Navy (d. 1803) April 6 – Thomas Peters, Dutch supercentenarian (d. 1857) April 20 – Philippe Pinel, French physician (d. 1826) July 8 – Sara Banzet, French educator and diarist (d. 1774) July 13 – Robert Calder, British naval officer (d. 1818) August 20 – Francis Asbury, American Methodist Bishop (d. 1816) August 30 – Johann Hieronymus Schröter, German astronomer (d. 1816) September 4 – Schneur Zalman of Liadi, Russian rabbi and founder of Chabad (d. 1812) September 16 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813) November 13 – Valentin Haüy, French educator, founder of the first school for the blind (d. 1822) December 2 – Queen Jeongsun, Korean regent (d. 1805) December 15 – Johann Gottfried Koehler, German astronomer (d. 1801) December 24 – William