Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  - 1740s -  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1740 1741 1742 - 1743 - 1744 1745 1746

1743 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science

Countries:   Canada - Great Britain - Mexico

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

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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).

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: Battle of Dettingen.

• May 10 - In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ended his final term (multiple times over 43 years) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize; he was succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil (for the next ten years) and returned to France.
• 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
• November 5 - Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury were organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

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)

See also Category: 1743 births.

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, 2nd Baron 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)

See also Category: 1743 deaths.