1743

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 (invented term "nihilism")
• February 13 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist
• February 19 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian classical music performer
• February 23 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, banker (+ 1812)
• March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss author, (+ 1818)
• April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, later 3rd President of the United States(+ 1826)
• May 17 - Seth Warner American revolutionary hero
• August 26 - Antoine Lavoisier (French chemist aka father of modern chemistry)
• September 11 - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter.
• September 17 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist
• Jos Fernando de Abascal, Spanish viceroy of Peru.

Deaths

• January 29 - Cardinal Andr-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Frjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV

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