1743

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1740 1741 1742 - 1743 - 1744 1745 1746\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Ongoing events 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events

\n* February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes Prime Minister of England\n* February 21 - - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson.\n* Battle of Dettingen

Ongoing events

\n* War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)

Births

\n* February 13 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist\n* February 19 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian classical music performer\n* February 23 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, banker (+ 1812)\n* March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss author, (+ 1818)\n* April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, later 3rd President of the United States(+ 1826).\n* August 26 - Antoine Lavoisier (French chemist aka father of modern chemistry)\n* September 17 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist

Deaths

\n* January 29 - Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fréjus, chief minister of France under Louis XV \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n