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Contents

1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

Events

February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister
February 21 - - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson.
September 13 - Treaty of Worms (1743) - a treaty between Great Britain, Austria and Sardinia
Battle of Dettingen

Ongoing events

War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

Births

January 25 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819)
February 13 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (d. 1820)
February 19 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805)
February 23 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (d. 1818)
April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
May 17 - Seth Warner American revolutionary hero (d. 1784)
August 26 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
September 11 - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter (d. 1809)
September 17 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (d. 1794)
December 23 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
José Fernando de Abascal, Spanish viceroy of Peru
Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician

Deaths

January 29 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (b. 1653)
January 29 - Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
February 18 - Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
April 4 - Daniel Neal, English historian (b. 1678)
July 2 - Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, English statesman
August 5 - John Hervey, Lord Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)
September 14 - Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
September 21 - Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper, India (b. 1688)
October 4 - John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (b. 1678)
December 27 - Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659)

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