What happened 1748 AD

Washington often visited Mount Vernon and Belvoir, the plantation that belonged to Lawrence's father-in-law William Fairfax. Fairfax became Washington's patron and surrogate father, and Washington spent a month in 1748 with a team surveying Fairfax's Shenandoah Valley property.

The German composer, Georg Michael Telemann, was born in Germany in the late 18th century.

The French botanist, Antoine de Jussieu, was born in Lyon, France, in 1748.

The Netherlands, Britain, Austria, and Sardinia signed an anti-French treaty.

Emanuel Aloys Frster was born in Kingdom of Prussia in 1748.

The Flemish composer Guillaume Albert Teniers was born in Belgium in 1748.

Amsterdam plunderer, Marretje Arends, was executed.