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:
Decades:
Years:
October 12: The Battle of Havana is fought in the Caribbean between Britain's Royal Navy and the Spanish Fleet.(1770 painting by Richard Paton)
1748 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1748
MDCCXLVIII
Ab urbe condita2501
Armenian calendar1197
ԹՎ ՌՃՂԷ
Assyrian calendar6498
Balinese saka calendar1669–1670
Bengali calendar1155
Berber calendar2698
British Regnal year21 Geo. 2 – 22 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2292
Burmese calendar1110
Byzantine calendar7256–7257
Chinese calendar丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
4445 or 4238
    — to —
戊辰年 (Earth Dragon)
4446 or 4239
Coptic calendar1464–1465
Discordian calendar2914
Ethiopian calendar1740–1741
Hebrew calendar5508–5509
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1804–1805
 - Shaka Samvat1669–1670
 - Kali Yuga4848–4849
Holocene calendar11748
Igbo calendar748–749
Iranian calendar1126–1127
Islamic calendar1160–1162
Japanese calendarEnkyō 5 / Kan'en 1
(寛延元年)
Javanese calendar1672–1673
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4081
Minguo calendar164 before ROC
民前164年
Nanakshahi calendar280
Thai solar calendar2290–2291
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

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April–June

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July–September

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October –December

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Date unknown

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Births

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Jeremy Bentham
 
Jacques-Louis David

Deaths

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William Kent

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