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unusual facts about 1743


Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza

Gaspar Domingo de Mendoza was a Spanish soldier who served as governor of New Mexico from 1739 to 1743.


1685 in art

Pietro Paolo Cristofari, Italian artist responsible for a number of the mosaics in St. Peter's Basilica (died 1743)

Aix Cathedral

In 1750, this organ was replaced by the present "green and gold organ," built between 1743 and 1746 by Brother Jean-Esprit Isnard, a Dominican from the convent of Tarascon, who built several other notable organs in Provence, including that in the basilica of Saint-Maximin.

Anglican religious order

Practical efforts were made in the religious households of Nicholas Ferrar at Little Gidding, 1625, and of William Law at King's Cliffe, 1743; and under Charles II, says Fr. Bede in his Autobiography, “about 12 Protestant ladies of gentle birth and considerable means” founded a short-lived convent, with William Sancroft, then Dean of St Paul's, for director.

Anne, Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn

Anne Horton (née Anne Luttrell, later the Duchess of Cumberland and Strathearn) (24 January 1743 – 28 December 1808) was a member of the British Royal Family, the wife of Prince Henry, Duke of Cumberland and Strathearn.

Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux

Antoine-Alexis Cadet de Vaux (1743–1828) was a French chemist and Pharmacist.

Beausire

Jean Beausire (1651–1743), French architect, engineer and fountain-maker

Benjamin Hoadly

William Hogarth (1697–1764) painted his portrait as Bishop of Winchester and "Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter" about 1743, etched by Bernard Baron (1696–1762).

Charles Cobbe

Charles Cobbe (Swarraton, 1686–1765) was Archbishop of Dublin from 1743 to 1765, and as such was Primate of Ireland.

D'Estaing family

Lucie Madeleine d'Estaing (Paris 1743 - Clermont-Ferrand 1826), viscountes of Ravel in Auvergne, illegitimate half-sister of the admiral, mistress of Louis XV; married, she had numerous descendants including two daughters of Louis XV.

Dettingen Te Deum

On 27 June 1743, the British army and its allies, under the command of King George II and Lord Stair, won a victory at the Battle of Dettingen, over the French army, commanded by the Maréchal de Noailles and the Duc de Grammont.

Edward Kimber

Kimber had served in the militia of James Oglethorpe, and participated in a raid in 1743 that was a sequel to the 1740 siege of St. Augustine, Florida.

François Bigot

He was the son of Louis-Amable Bigot (1663-1743), Conseilleur du Roi, Counsellor to the Parliament at Bordeaux and Receiver General to the King; by his wife, Marguerite de Lombard (1682-1766), daughter of Joseph de Lombard, Baron du Cubzagués, Commissioner of the Marine at Guyenne and a representative of an old and powerful Guyenne family.

François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (17 April 1686 – 7 January 1743, Issy) was a French nobleman.

Fulwar Craven, 4th Baron Craven

He and his brother William founded the Craven Hunt, and he appears in James Seymour's 1743 A Kill at Ashdown Park, a picture owned by the Craven family until 1968.

Germain Louis Chauvelin

He tried for a rapprochement with Louis XV of France on Fleury's death in January 1743, but was disgraced a second time and exiled to Issoire, then to Riom.

Gottlieb Priber

Because of his position against private property and his policy to provide refuge for runaway slaves and debtors in Cherokee territory, his surrender was demanded by the British authorities in 1739 and when on his way to New Orleans in 1743, he was caught by British-allied Creeks and handed over to the British colonial authorities, eventually dying under imprisonment in Frederica, Georgia.

Haüy

René Just Haüy (1743–1822), French mineralogist, brother of Valentin Haüy

Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode

He was involved, for example, in the development of the peat industry on Mount Brocken, in 1743 establishing a peat works on the Brocken named Heinrichshöhe.

Henry Harvey

Henry Harvey was born in Eastry, Kent in 1743, the second son of Richard and Elizabeth Harvey.

Henry Jerome de Salis

Harriet Blosset was the girl who in 1768 had been led to believe by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820) that he would marry her on his return from his journey with Cook on the Endeavour.

History of Nagpur

In 1743, the Maratha leader Raghoji Bhonsale of Vidarbha established himself at Nagpur, after conquering the territories of Deogarh, Chanda and Chhattisgarh by 1751.

Jack Broughton

As a result of his status in boxing, and with help from a number of wealthy patrons, he opened his own amphitheatre in 1743, in Hanway Road, near Oxford Street.

Jalili dynasty

In 1743 Maslawi forces, raised, organized and led by Hussein Pasha al-Jalili defeated the invasion of the Persian army of Nadir Shah.

Joachim von Blumenthal

His parents were Heinrich Albrecht von Blumenthal (1693–1767), Lord of Quackenburg, and Katharina von Lettow (1702–1743).

Johan Jacob Döbelius

Johan Jacob Döbelius, professor of medicine (1674 in Rostock, Germany – 1743 in Lund, Sweden)

Johann Christian Lossius

Johann Christian Lossius (1743, Liebstadt near Weimar – 1813, Erfurt) was a German materialist philosopher.

John Poulett

John Poulett, 1st Earl Poulett, KG (1663-1743), his grandson, British First Lord of the Treasury

Justice Burke

Aedanus Burke (1743–1802), a soldier, judge, and United States Representative from South Carolina

Justus Johannes Heinrich Ribock

Justus Johannes Heindrich Ribock (occasionally: Riebock, Riboc) (12 September 1743 – 1785) was a German physician, amateur flute player and designer born in Egestorf, Germany.

Laetitia Pilkington

In 1743, she began seeking, on Cibber's advice, subscribers for her Memoirs. Samuel Richardson, who had been a benefactor of hers and who had consulted with her on Clarissa, would not publish the work.

Lavoisier Group

The group was named after French scientist Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794), the father of modern chemistry who disproved the Phlogiston theory of combustion.

Lepus cornutus

In 1743, Jacob Theodor Klein in his "Summa dubiorum" produced another illustration of the same.

Literature in early modern Scotland

Drama was pursued by Scottish playwrights in London such as Catherine Trotter, David Crawford's and Newburgh Hamilton who wrote the libretto for Handel’s Samson (1743).

Mademoiselle de Chartres

Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698–1743) second daughter of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Françoise-Marie de Bourbon

Marianne Davies

Marianne Davies (1743 or 1744, England - c. 1818) was an English musician, and the sister of the classical soprano Cecilia Davies.

Monarchy of Finland

In 1742, following the Russian occupation of Finland in the Russo-Swedish War (1741–1743) and vague promises of making the country independent, the four estates gathered in Turku and decided to ask Empress Elizabeth of Russia if the then Duke Peter of Holstein-Gottorp, great-nephew of the late king Charles XII of Sweden, could be proclaimed as the King of Finland.

Peter Madáč

In 1743 he arrived in Štítnik and studied grammar, Latin, and the Catechetism under Tubelu.

Pitaval

The name derived from the French advocate François Gayot de Pitaval (1673–1743), wo published several volumes of causes célèbres et intéressantes between 1734 and 1743.

Poeke Castle

Later, Charles Florent Idesbald de Preudhomme d'Hailly, Burgrave of Nieuwpoort, Oombergen, Sint-Lievens-Esse and Schoonbergen, Baron of Poeke and lord of Neuville, Kanegem and Velaine (1716–1792), carried out significant work on the castle between 1743 and 1752.

Quintin Craufurd

Quintin Craufurd (22 September 1743 – 23 November 1819), a British author, was born at Kilwinning.

Robert Ensko

Other letters are archived with the Bernard M. Bloomfield Papers, 1743-1963 at Winterthur in Delaware.

Robert Hay Drummond

As royal chaplain he gained the confidence and esteem of George II, whom he attended during the German campaign of 1743, and on 7 July of that year preached the thanksgiving sermon for the victory of Dettingen before the king at Hanau.

Saviour Bernard

At the young age of nineteen, in 1743, Bernard was sent to the south of France, at Aix-en-Provence, to study medicine and surgery at the University of Aix-en-Provence there.

Schönborn

Damian Hugo Philipp von Schönborn, Prince Bishop of Speyer (1719–1743), Bishop of Konstanz (1740) and a cardinal

St Mary's Church, Patshull

St Mary's was built in about 1743, and was designed by James Gibbs for Sir John Astley.

Winckworth Tonge

He was born in County Wexford, Ireland and, in 1743, served as a volunteer in the expedition against the Spanish American settlements led by Captain Charles Knowles.


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