1743

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s 1720s 1730s – 1740s – 1750s 1760s 1770s
Years:	1740 1741 1742 – 1743 – 1744 1745 1746

1743 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries:
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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).

1 Events of 1743
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events of 1743

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.

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.

Ongoing Events

War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748)

Births

**1743 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1743 MDCCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2496
Armenian calendar	1192 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-101 – -100
Bengali calendar	1150
Berber calendar	2693
Buddhist calendar	2287
Burmese calendar	1105
Byzantine calendar	7251 – 7252
Chinese calendar	壬戌年十二月初六日 (4379/4439-12-6) — to — 癸亥年十一月十六日 (4380/4440-11-16)
Coptic calendar	1459 – 1460
Ethiopian calendar	1735 – 1736
Hebrew calendar	5503 – 5504
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1799 – 1800
- Shaka Samvat	1665 – 1666
- Kali Yuga	4844 – 4845
Holocene calendar	11743
Iranian calendar	1121 – 1122
Islamic calendar	1155 – 1156
Japanese calendar	Kanpō 3 (寛保3年)
Korean calendar	4076
Thai solar calendar	2286

January 18 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu. (d. 1803)
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)
May 24 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutioner, doctor, scientist (d. 1793)
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)

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)
June 16 – Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, eldest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan; she built the Paris Palais Bourbon where she died (b.1673)
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)