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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).

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Events of 1743

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January - June

• February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
• February 21 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson premieres in London .
• May 10 - In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term (multiple times over 43 years) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil (for the next 10 years) and returns to France.
• June 16 - Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria: King George II of Great Britain leads his own troops, the last British king to do so.

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July - December

• August 7 - Russia and Sweden sign the Treaty of Åbo.
• September 11 - Natalia Lopukhina is flogged in front of the Twelve Collegia building in Saint Petersburg.
• September 13 - The Treaty of Worms is signed between Great Britain, Austria, and Sardinia.
• November 5 - Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

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Undated

• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

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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)
• March 14 - Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (d. 1809)
• April 1 - Richard Butler (general) American soldier (d. 1793)
• April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
• May 17 - Seth Warner American revolutionary hero (d. 1784)
• May 20 - Toussaint Louverture, Haitian rebel (d. 1803)
• June 3 - José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Spanish viceroy of Peru (d. 1821)
• 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)
• date unknown - Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1834)

See also Category: 1743 births.

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Deaths

• January 3 - Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1657)
• 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, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• August 5 - John Hervey, 2nd Baron 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)

See also Category: 1743 deaths.