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1743 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1743
MDCCXLIII
Ab urbe condita2496
Armenian calendar1192
ԹՎ ՌՃՂԲ
Assyrian calendar6493
Balinese saka calendar1664–1665
Bengali calendar1150
Berber calendar2693
British Regnal year16 Geo. 2 – 17 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2287
Burmese calendar1105
Byzantine calendar7251–7252
Chinese calendar壬戌年 (Water Dog)
4439 or 4379
    — to —
癸亥年 (Water Pig)
4440 or 4380
Coptic calendar1459–1460
Discordian calendar2909
Ethiopian calendar1735–1736
Hebrew calendar5503–5504
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1799–1800
 - Shaka Samvat1664–1665
 - Kali Yuga4843–4844
Holocene calendar11743
Igbo calendar743–744
Iranian calendar1121–1122
Islamic calendar1155–1156
Japanese calendarKanpō 3
(寛保３年)
Javanese calendar1667–1668
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4076
Minguo calendar169 before ROC
民前169年
Nanakshahi calendar275
Thai solar calendar2285–2286
Tibetan calendar阳水狗年
(male Water-Dog)
1869 or 1488 or 716
    — to —
阴水猪年
(female Water-Pig)
1870 or 1489 or 717
June 27: King George II of Great Britain at the Battle of Dettingen.

1743 (MDCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1743rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 743rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1743, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–March[]

  • January 1 – The Verendrye brothers, probably Louis-Joseph and François de La Vérendrye, become the first white persons to see the Rocky Mountains from the eastern side [1] (the Spanish conquistadors had seen the Rockies from the west side).
  • January 8 – King Augustus III of Poland, acting in his capacity as Elector of Saxony, signs an agreement with Austria pledging help in war in return for part of Silesia to be conveyed to Saxony.[2]
  • January 12
    • The Verendryes, and two members of the Mandan Indian tribe, reach the foot of the mountains, near the site of what is now Helena, Montana.[3]
    • An earthquake strikes the Philippines [4]
  • January 16 –Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury turns his effects over to King Louis XV of France, 13 days before his death on January 29.[5]
  • January 23 –With mediation by France, Sweden and Russia begin peace negotiations at Åbo to end the Russo-Swedish War. By August 17, Sweden cedes all of its claims to southern Finland.[6]
  • February 21 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson, premieres in London.
  • March 2 – A British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish in the Battle of La Guaira.

April–June[]

  • April 1 – Pope Benedict XIV issues a new bull, barring agreements by spouses to not appeal annulments of marriages [7]
  • April 2 – The Verendrye brothers bury a tablet claiming the Great Plains of North America for King Louis XV of France. A schoolgirl in Pierre, South Dakota, unearths the tablet 170 years later on February 16, 1913.[8]
  • April 3 – Prithvi Narayan Shah becomes the new King of the Gorkha Kingdom and begins a campaign to unify the 54 different principalities in the Himalayas under his rule as part of the unification of Nepal [9]
  • April 9 – The Verendrye brothers make the first contact since 1722 between Europeans and the Sioux Indians, whom they refer to as Les Gens de la Fleche Collee ("the people of the sheathed arrow).[10]
  • April 13 – The British East India Company ship Princess Louisa is wrecked off the coast of Maio Island in the Cape Verde Islands, killing 49 of her 179 crew.
  • April 18 – The trustees of the English Province of Georgia vote to inaugurate public schools in the corporate territory.[11]
  • May 10 – In New France, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term (multiple times over 43 years) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil (for the next 10 years) and returns to France.
  • May 30 – The Dalecarlian rebellion (1743) breaks out in Sweden.
  • June 27 (June 16 O.S.) – War of the Austrian Succession – Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria: British forces, in alliance with those of Hanover and Hesse, defeat a French army under the duc de Noailles; King George II of Great Britain (and Elector of Brunswick) leads his own troops, the last British king to do so.

July–September[]

  • July 3 – As a concession to Russia, Sweden's parliament ratifies the election of Adolphus Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, a great-grandson of King Charles XI, to be heir to the throne of Sweden. Adolphus becomes king on the death of King Frederick on April 5, 1751, marking the end of the Hesse-Kassel dynasty and the start of the dynasty of the Holstein-Gottorp that will rule Sweden from 1751 to 1818 [12]
  • July 13 – All 276 people on board the Dutch East India Company ship Hollandia drown after the ship strikes a rock off of the Isles of Scilly in England near Cornwall. The wreckage is located in 1971.
  • July 20 – Lord Anson captures the Philippine galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga and its treasure of 1,313,843 Spanish dollars at Manila along with a treasure of 2 1/2 million dollars, and proceeds back toward Mexico, then returns to Britain in 1744 [13]
  • July 23 – James Oglethorpe departs from Georgia to England and returns there in September.[14]
  • July 28 – France and the Allies of Britain conclude a treaty to provide care for each other's wounded.[15]
  • July 31 – At a summit in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the British colonies of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania conclude a treaty with the Six Nations, conceding that the member tribes are entitled to the territory west of the Appalachian mountains and north of the Ohio River.[16]
  • August 18 (August 7 Old Style) – Russia and Sweden sign the Treaty of Åbo.
  • August 24 – The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrendered to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.[17]
  • August 27 – Henry Pelham becomes Prime Minister of Great Britain.
  • September 11 – Russian noble Natalia Lopukhina is flogged in front of the Twelve Collegia building in Saint Petersburg, bringing a conclusion to the "Lopukhina Affair" plotted by France and the Duchy of Holstein.
  • September 13 – The Treaty of Worms is signed between Great Britain, Austria and Sardinia.

October–December[]

  • October 19 – Louis Maria Colons, one of nine French Canadians who had attempted to colonize territory in what is now New Mexico, is executed for attempting to persuade the Pueblo Indians to rise up against the Spanish colonial government.[18]
  • October 21 – Benjamin Franklin's view of a lunar eclipse from Philadelphia is spoiled by a rainstorm; several days later, he learns that residents of Boston received the same storm hours after the eclipse, demonstrating that weather moves from west to east.[19]
  • October 23 – After almost six weeks, Nader Shah of Persia lifts the siege of Mosul.[20]
  • November 5 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.
  • December 3 – Ecuadorian scientist Pedro Vicente Maldonado departs from Brazil in order to purchase the most state-of-the-art equipment for the French Geodesic Mission [21]
  • December 9 – At Haarlem, Dutch astronomer Dirk Klinkenberg becomes the first to observe the Great Comet of 1744. Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux discovers it independently on December 13. Both scientists are given credit for its discovery [22]
  • December 10 – King Louis XV of France informs King Philip V of Spain of his intent to try to restore the House of Stuart to the throne of the United Kingdom. James Francis Edward Stuart was briefly the Crown Prince of England and Scotland until his father, King James II, was deposed in 1688 and, as Pretender to the Throne, would become King James III if the attack, planned for January 1, 1744 succeeds.[23]
  • December 11 – Princess Louise of Great Britain, daughter of King George II, weds Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark and Norway.[24]

Undated[]

  • Capodimonte porcelain is first manufactured, in Naples.
  • Probable date – The last wolf in Scotland is shot, in Killiecrankie.[25]

Births[]

Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova

Deaths[]

Eiler Hagerup
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington
Jai Singh II

References[]

  1. ^ Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh, Breaking the Wilderness: The Story of the Conquest of the Far West (G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1908) p139
  2. ^ Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, Fragile Diplomacy (Yale University Press, 2007) p38
  3. ^ Olin Dunbar Wheeler, The Trail of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1904: A Story of the Great Exploration Across the Continent in 1804-6 (G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1904) p213
  4. ^ D. R. M. Irving, Colonial Counterpoint: Music in Early Modern Manila (Oxford University Press, 2010)
  5. ^ Olivier Bernier, Louis XV (New Word City, 2018)
  6. ^ The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 6: The Eighteenth Century, ed. by A. W. Ward, et al. (Macmillan, 1909) p314
  7. ^ Louis de Bonald, On Divorce (Transaction Publishers, 2011) p155
  8. ^ George M. Wrong, The conquest of New France (Yale University Press, 1918) p129
  9. ^ Nanda R. Shrestha, In the Name of Development: A Reflection on Nepal (University Press of America, 1997) p6
  10. ^ Royal B. Hassrick, The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012)
  11. ^ James Ross McCain, Georgia as a Proprietary Province: The Execution of a Trust (R.G. Badger, 1917) p298
  12. ^ "Adolphus Frederick of Holstein-Entin, in The American Cyclopedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge", ed. by George Ripley and Charles A. Dana (D. Appleton and Company, 1873) p129
  13. ^ Francisco Antonio Mourelle, Voyage of the Sonora in the Second Bucareli Expedition, translated by Daines Barrington (T.C. Russell, 1920) p108
  14. ^ "James Oglethorpe", by Dr. Walter H. Charlton, in The American Monthly Magazine (June 1911) p294
  15. ^ Bernard D. Rostker, Providing for the Casualties of War: The American Experience Through World War II (Rand Corporation, 2013) p46
  16. ^ Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions of the United States, (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1899) p569
  17. ^ Mattila, Tapani (1983). Meri maamme turvana [Sea safeguarding our country] (in Finnish). Jyväskylä: K. J. Gummerus Osakeyhtiö. ISBN 951-99487-0-8.
  18. ^ Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Leading Facts of New Mexican History, Vol. I (Torch Press, 1911, reprinted by Sunstone Press, 2007) p438
  19. ^ Bruce Parker, The Power of the Sea: Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters (St. Martin's Press, 2012)
  20. ^ Martin Sicker, The Islamic World in Decline: From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire (Greenwood Publishing, 2001) p63
  21. ^ Neil Safier, Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America (University of Chicago Press, 2008) p104
  22. ^ David A.J. Seargent, The Greatest Comets in History: Broom Stars and Celestial Scimitars (Springer, 2008) p116
  23. ^ Andrew Lang, A History of Scotland from the Roman Occupation (W. Blackwood and Sons, 1907) p443
  24. ^ Michael A. Beatty, The English Royal Family of America, from Jamestown to the American Revolution (McFarland, 2003) p164
  25. ^ Giscombe, C. S. (Winter 2012). "Precarious Creatures". The Kenyon Review. Gambier, Ohio: Kenyon College. 34 (NS) (1): 157–175. JSTOR 41304743. I looked it up later and found out that it's generally conceded that they were all dead by the 1680s. But a story persists that a fellow named MacQueen killed the last wolf in Scotland - and, implicitly, in all Britain - after that, in 1743. (Henry Shoemaker mentions the story in the section of Extinct Pennsylvania Animals that concerns wolves.)
  26. ^ "Spencer Compton, earl of Wilmington | English noble". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved September 1, 2021.
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