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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s |
| Years: | 1740 1741 1742 - 1743 - 1744 1745 1746 |
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| Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science |
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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
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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).
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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.
Undated
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1743 MDCCXLIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2496 |
| Armenian calendar | 1192 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -101 – -100 |
| 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 | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1798 – 1799 |
| - 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 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)
- 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)
- See also Category: 1743 births.
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)
- 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)
- See also Category: 1743 deaths.
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