French forces under Marshal Maurice de Saxe defeated a larger Anglo-Dutch-Hanoverian army at Fontenoy, a rare and celebrated French victory in the War of Austrian Succession.

A 16-year-old Prussian princess, Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, married the future Peter III of Russia, a union that would eventually make her Empress Catherine the Great.

Jacobite forces under Bonnie Prince Charlie won a skirmish clearing the road toward Edinburgh during the '45 Rising.