1747

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1744
  • 1745
  • 1746
  • 1747
  • 1748
  • 1749
  • 1750
1747 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1747
MDCCXLVII
Ab urbe condita2500
Armenian calendar1196
ԹՎ ՌՃՂԶ
Assyrian calendar6497
Balinese saka calendar1668–1669
Bengali calendar1154
Berber calendar2697
British Regnal year20 Geo. 2 – 21 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2291
Burmese calendar1109
Byzantine calendar7255–7256
Chinese calendar丙寅年 (Fire Tiger)
4443 or 4383
    — to —
丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit)
4444 or 4384
Coptic calendar1463–1464
Discordian calendar2913
Ethiopian calendar1739–1740
Hebrew calendar5507–5508
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1803–1804
 - Shaka Samvat1668–1669
 - Kali Yuga4847–4848
Holocene calendar11747
Igbo calendar747–748
Iranian calendar1125–1126
Islamic calendar1159–1160
Japanese calendarEnkyō 4
(延享4年)
Javanese calendar1671–1672
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4080
Minguo calendar165 before ROC
民前165年
Nanakshahi calendar279
Thai solar calendar2289–2290
Tibetan calendar阳火虎年
(male Fire-Tiger)
1873 or 1492 or 720
    — to —
阴火兔年
(female Fire-Rabbit)
1874 or 1493 or 721

1747 (MDCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1747th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 747th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1747, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • April 9 – The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat is beheaded at Tower Hill, London, for high treason. He was the last person in Britain to be beheaded, although beheading would not be formally abolished until more than 200 years later.
  • May 14War of the Austrian SuccessionFirst battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy defeats a French fleet.
  • June 9Emperor Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Sakuramachi.
  • June 24October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route.

July–September[]

October: Ahmad Shah Durrani crowned as king of Afghanistan.

October–December[]

  • October 1 – On the 7th day of Shawwal, 1160 A.H., Pashtun chieftains in Kandahar, meeting in a special council (a loya jirga) vote to make Ahmad Shah Durrani their leader in Afghanistan and beginning the Durrani Empire.
  • October 21 – King George II transfers Thomas Herring, Archbishop of York, to become the new Archbishop of Canterbury, three days after the death of John Potter
  • October 24 – A Caribbean Sea hurricane sweeps across Saint Kitts, sinking 12 British freighters and one from France.[4]
  • October 25War of the Austrian SuccessionSecond battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy again defeats a French fleet.
  • November 9Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform.[5]
  • November 1719 – The Knowles Riot breaks out in Boston, Massachusetts, protesting impressment into the British Royal Navy, .
  • November 22 – Prince William IV of Orange becomes stadtholder of all the United Provinces.
  • December 7Benjamin Franklin forms the Pennsylvania Associators, the first militia in the colony of Pennsylvania, which had no standing militia because of its foundation by pacifistic Quakers.[6]
  • December 13 – The ordeal of the Maryland freighter sloop Endeavour begins when the ship departs Annapolis for the West Indies and encounters a hurricane. With its masts and rigging torn away, the ship drifts for six months before finally ending up at the island of Tiree off the coast of Scotland[7]
  • December 27 – The Parliament of Great Britain amends its Naturalisation Act of 1740 to extend recognition to all non-Anglican Protestant denominations in its colonies.[8]

Date unknown[]

Births[]

Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor

Deaths[]

Nader Shah

See also[]

  • List of 1747 Holy Roman Empire incumbents

References[]

  1. ^ "The Baptism of Sultan Azim ud-Din of Sulu", by Ebrhard Crailsheim, in Image - Object - Performance: Mediality and Communication in Cultural Contact Zones of Colonial Latin America and the Philippines (Waxmann Verlag, 2013) p101
  2. ^ "Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat", by J.W. Allen, in Lives of Twelve Bad Men: Original Studies of Eminent Scoundrels by Various Hands (T. Fisher Unwin, 1894) p196
  3. ^ Henry L. Fulton, Dr. John Moore, 1729–1802: A Life in Medicine, Travel, and Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) p76
  4. ^ Lloyd's List No. 1259, December 18, 1747
  5. ^ Van den Heuvel, Danielle (Spring 2012). "The Multiple Identities of Early Modern Dutch Fishwives". Signs. University of Chicago Press. 37 (3): 587–594. doi:10.1086/662705. JSTOR 10.1086/662705. ... in 1747 fishwives organized a large political demonstration in Amsterdam, and in 1748 the Amsterdam fish hawker Marretje Arents was one of the principal initiators of a tax riot in the city.
  6. ^ T"Associators", by Paul G. Pierpaoli, Jr., in American Revolution: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection (ABC-CLIO, 2018) p85
  7. ^ Rosemary F. Williams, Maritime Annapolis: A History of Watermen, Sails & Midshipmen (Arcadia Publishing, 2009)
  8. ^ George W. Forell, ed., Nine Public Lectures on Important Subjects in Religion by Nicholaus Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1998) p xxix
  9. ^ Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) (January 1, 1994). The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. University of Georgia Press. p. 43. ISBN 978-0-8203-1528-7.
  10. ^ Frank Moore Colby; Talcott Williams (1930). The New International Encyclopaedia. Dodd, Mead. p. 788.
  11. ^ John Paul Jones (1845). Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones... Walker & Gillis. pp. 11–.
  12. ^ Paula R. Feldman (January 19, 2001). British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology. JHU Press. p. 647. ISBN 978-0-8018-6640-1.
  13. ^ German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730. Gale Research. 1996. p. 62.
  14. ^ Peter Martin Fine (1974). Vauvenargues and La Rochefoucauld. Manchester University Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7190-0588-6.
  15. ^ Frajese, Carlo (1970). "Bononcini, Giovanni". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 12. Retrieved October 2, 2015. (in Italian).
  16. ^ Charles F. Partington (1838). The British Cyclopedia of Biography. p. 188.
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