1747

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  – 1740s –  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1744 1745 1746 – 1747 – 1748 1749 1750

1747 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Russia – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1747 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1747 MDCCXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2500
Armenian calendar	1196 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	6497
Bengali calendar	1154
Berber calendar	2697
British Regnal year	20 Geo. 2 – 21 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2291
Burmese calendar	1109
Byzantine calendar	7255–7256
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4443 or 4383     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4444 or 4384
Coptic calendar	1463–1464
Discordian calendar	2913
Ethiopian calendar	1739–1740
Hebrew calendar	5507–5508
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1803–1804
- Shaka Samvat	1669–1670
- Kali Yuga	4848–4849
Holocene calendar	11747
Igbo calendar	747–748
Iranian calendar	1125–1126
Islamic calendar	1159–1160
Japanese calendar	Enkyō 4 (延享４年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4080
Minguo calendar	165 before ROC 民前165年
Thai solar calendar	2289–2290

1747 (MDCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1747th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 747th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1740s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1747 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–June

April 9: Lord Lovat.

• January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
• February 11 – King George's War: A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers, attacks and defeats British troops at Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia.
• April 9 – The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat is beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason (the last man to be executed in this way in Britain).
• May 14 – War of the Austrian Succession – First battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy defeats a French fleet.
• June 9 – Emperor Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Sakuramachi.
• June 24–October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route.

July–December

Kandahar: Ahmad Shah Durrani crowned as king of Afghanistan in October.

James Lind & scurvy.

Battle of Lauffeldt

• July 2 – War of the Austrian Succession – Battle of Lauffeld: France defeats the combined armies of Hanover, Great Britain and the Netherlands.
• October
  • Thomas Herring is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
  • Following the capture of Kandahar, Ahmad Shah Durrani is chosen by a Loya jirga as first leader of the Durrani Empire, predecessor of Afghanistan.
• October 25 – War of the Austrian Succession – Second battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy again defeats a French fleet.
• November 9 – Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform. ^[1]

• November 22 – Prince William IV of Orange becomes stadtholder of all the provinces of the United Provinces.

Date unknown

• James Lind's experiment begins to prove that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
• War of the Austrian Succession: Spanish troops invade and occupy the coastal towns of Beaufort and Brunswick in the Royal Colony of North Carolina during what becomes known as the Spanish Alarm. They are later driven out by the local militia.
• Samuel Johnson begins work on A Dictionary of the English Language in London.

Births

• January 10 – Abraham-Louis Breguet, Swiss Horologist and inventor (d.1823)
• January 15 – John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
• January 19 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (d. 1826)
• January 26 – Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster (d. 1825)
• February 19 – John "Walking" Stewart, traveller and philosopher (d. 1822)
• February 21 – Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (d. 1795)
• February 28 – Justin Morgan, Horse breeder and composer (d. 1798)
• May 5 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
• June 23 – Michele Troja, Italian physician (d. 1827)
• July 6 – John Paul Jones, American naval captain (d. 1792)
• September 9 – Thomas Coke, first American Methodist Bishop (d. 1814)
• October 8 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)
• December 12 – Anna Seward, English writer (d. 1809)
• December 31 – Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (d. 1794)
• date unknown
  • François Tourte, French musical instrument maker (d. 1835)
  • Francis Salvador, American patriot (d. 1776)

Deaths

• January 16 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
• March 16 – Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
• March 23 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
• April 2 – Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684)
• April 7 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676)
• April 9 – Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief (b. c. 1667)
• May 9 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673)
• May 28 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)
• May 31 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686)
• June 19
  • Nader Shah, Persian leader (b. 1688)
  • Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
• July 9 – Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670)
• October 10 – John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1674)
• November 17 – Alain-René Le Sage, Algonqian writer (b. 1668)
• December 2 – Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695)

See also

• List of 1747 Holy Roman Empire incumbents

References

1. Van den Heuvel, Danielle (Spring 2012). "The Multiple Identities of Early Modern Dutch Fishwives". Signs (The University of Chicago Press) 37 (3): 587–594. Retrieved 17 March 2016. ... in 1747 fishwives organized a large political demonstration in Amsterdam, and in 1748 the Amsterdam fish hawker Marretje Arents was one of the principal initiators of a tax riot in the city.