
{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1744 1745 1746 - 1747 - 1748 1749 1750 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
|} ==Events== * January 31 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital * April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower of London, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain * May 14 - First battle of Cape Finisterre (1747) in the War of the Austrian Succession * July 2 - Battle of Lawfeld (1747) * October 25 - Second battle of Cape Finisterre (1747) in the War of the Austrian Succession * November 9 – Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform * December 16 – Canter of Coltbrigg – 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites of Charles Edward Stuart * Emperor Momozono of Japan ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan * Kandahar taken from Nadir Shah by Ahmad Shah Durrani, and becomes the first capital of the newly-independent Afghanistan * Thomas Herring appointed Archbishop of Canterbury * James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy * Wearing of the kilt banned in Scotland by the Dress Act * Samuel Johnson begins work on ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' ==Ongoing events== * War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) ==Births== * January 15 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822) * January 19 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (d. 1826) * January 26 - Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster (d. 1825) * May 5 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792) * July 6 - John Paul Jones, American naval captain (d. 1792) * October 8 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807) * December 12 - Anna Seward, English writer (d. 1809) * François Tourte, French musical instrument maker (d. 1835) * Francis Salvador, American patriot (d. 1776) * Thomas Coke (Methodist), first United Methodist Church Bishop (d. 1814) ==Deaths== * January 16 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680) * March 16 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690) * April 2 - Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684) * April 9 - Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat * May 31 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686) * June - Nadir Shah, Persian leader (b. 1688) * June 19 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670) * October 10 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury * November 17 - Alain-René Le Sage, French writer (b. 1668) 1747 os:1747
== years page layout== I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. However pre 1800 the change is largely cosmetic. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --user talk:BozMoUser:BozMo 16:17, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
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{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1744 1745 1746 - 1747 - 1748 1749 1750 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s |- | align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
|} ==Events== * January 31 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital * April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower of London, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain * May 14 - First battle of Cape Finisterre (1747) in the War of the Austrian Succession * July 2 - Battle of Lawfeld (1747) * October 25 - Second battle of Cape Finisterre (1747) in the War of the Austrian Succession * November 9 – Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform * December 16 – Canter of Coltbrigg – 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites of Charles Edward Stuart * Emperor Momozono of Japan ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan * Kandahar taken from Nadir Shah by Ahmad Shah Durrani, and becomes the first capital of the newly-independent Afghanistan * Thomas Herring appointed Archbishop of Canterbury * James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy * Wearing of the kilt banned in Scotland by the Dress Act * Samuel Johnson begins work on ''A Dictionary of the English Language'' ==Ongoing events== * War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) ==Births== * January 15 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822) * January 19 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (d. 1826) * January 26 - Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster (d. 1825) * May 5 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792) * July 6 - John Paul Jones, American naval captain (d. 1792) * October 8 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807) * December 12 - Anna Seward, English writer (d. 1809) * François Tourte, French musical instrument maker (d. 1835) * Francis Salvador, American patriot (d. 1776) * Thomas Coke (Methodist), first United Methodist Church Bishop (d. 1814) ==Deaths== * January 16 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680) * March 16 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690) * April 2 - Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684) * April 9 - Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat * May 31 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686) * June - Nadir Shah, Persian leader (b. 1688) * June 19 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670) * October 10 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury * November 17 - Alain-René Le Sage, French writer (b. 1668) 1747 os:1747
1747
== years page layout== I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. However pre 1800 the change is largely cosmetic. If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --user talk:BozMoUser:BozMo 16:17, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
1747
1740s
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