1743

Year '1743' ('MDCCXLIII') was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1743

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1743

January - June

★ February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.

★ February 21 - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, ''Samson''.


★ June 16 - The Battle of Dettingen is fought in Bavaria. King George II of Great Britain leads his own troops, the last British king to do so.

July - December

★ August 7 - Russia and Sweden sign the Treaty of Åbo.

★ September 13 - Treaty of Worms - a treaty between Great Britain, Austria and Sardinia

Undated

★ War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

Births

★ January 25 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (died 1819)

★ February 13 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (died 1820)

★ February 19 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (died 1805)

★ February 23 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (died 1812)

★ March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (died 1818)

★ March 14 - Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809)

★ April 1 - Richard Butler (general) American soldier (died 1793)

★ April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (died 1826)

★ May 17 - Seth Warner American revolutionary hero (died 1784)

★ June 3 - José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Spanish viceroy of Peru (died 1821)

★ August 26 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (died 1794)

★ September 11 - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter (died 1809)

★ September 17 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (died 1794)

★ December 23 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (died 1803)

★ ''date unknown'' - Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician (died 1834)
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Deaths

★ January 3 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (born 1657)

★ January 29 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (born 1653)

★ January 29 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (born 1658)

★ February 18 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (born 1667)

★ April 4 - Daniel Neal, English historian (born 1678)

★ July 2 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

★ August 5 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (born 1696)

★ September 14 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (born 1690)

★ September 21 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper, India (born 1688)

★ October 4 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (born 1678)

★ December 27 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (born 1659)
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