1743

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1743 (MDCCXLIII) was a common year beginning on a Tuesday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

February 18: Georg Friedrich Händel is the oratory Samson.
February 20: An earthquake of 7.1 shakes the Italian region of Salento causing a tsunami that leaves about 300 dead.
May 19: Jean-Pierre Christin presents in the real society of Lyon the first thermometer to use the centigrade temperature scale as we know it today.
June 16: The battle of Dettingen is waged in the framework of the Austrian War of Succession.
August 7: Russia and Sweden sign the Åbo treaty, which puts an end to the war between the two countries.
September 13: Signature of the Worms treaty between Great Britain, Austria and Sardinia.
October 1st: Curicó, the city of Chile in that year was founded as San José de Buenavista de Curicó
29 November: The Comet C/1743 X1 (One of the most impressive in history), was discovered by Jan de Munck in Middelburg.
October 25: France and Spain sign the second family pact.

Principal level: Born in 1743

18 January: Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French philosopher (f. 1803)
February 9: Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer and musician (f. 1805)
13 February: Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (f. 1820)
February 18: Francisca Antonia Arnal, mother of the Rio de Janeiro leader José Gervasio Artigas.
March 30: Beato Diego José de Cádiz, a Spanish Capuchin religious (f. 1801)
13 April: Thomas Jefferson, American politician (f. 1826)
20 May: Toussaint Louverture, Haitian politician and military (f. 1803)
June 2: Giuseppe Balsamo, "Cagliostro", Italian doctor and alchemist (f. 1795)
June 3: José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Spanish military (f. 1821)
20 June: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, poet, essayist and book writer for British children (f. 1825).
August 19: Madame du Barry, noble and courtier of France (f. 1793)
August 26: Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (f. 1794)
11 November: Carl Peter Thunberg, scout, naturalist and Swedish botanist (f. 1828)

Principal level: Death in 1743

January 3: Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, architect and Italian designer. (n. 1657)
February 22: Luis de Belluga and Moncada, Cardinal and Bishop of the Diocese of Cartagena.
April 16: Ana Sofia Reventlow, Queen Consort of Denmark and Norway (n. 1693)
August 25: James Arrow, Pirate and Corsario between 1710 and 1725 (n. 1692)

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