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What Happened In Year 1743?

• May 12, 1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
• June 27, 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
• September 13, 1743 – Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
• November 5, 1743 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

Who Were Born In The Year 1743?

• January 18, 1743 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu. (d. 1803)
• January 25, 1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819)
• February 19, 1743 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805)
• February 20, 1743 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet (d. 1825)
• April 13, 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
• April 24, 1743 – Edmund Cartwright, British inventor (d. 1823)
• May 17, 1743 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)
• May 24, 1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
• June 2, 1743 – Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
• July 3, 1743 – Sophia Magdalena of Denmark, queen consort of Sweden (d. 1813)
• July 14, 1743 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian poet (d. 1816)
• August 19, 1743 – Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
• August 26, 1743 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
• September 17, 1743 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
• September 22, 1743 – Quintin Craufurd, British author (d. 1819)
• November 11, 1743 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
• December 1, 1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817)
• December 23, 1743 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)

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