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.
Calendar year
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1747
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1747
(
MDCCXLVII
) was a
common year starting on Sunday
of the
Gregorian calendar
and a
common year starting on Thursday
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. As of the start of 1747, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
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January–March
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April–June
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July–September
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October–December
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- October 1
– On the 7th day of Shawwal, 1160 A.H., Pashtun chieftains in
Kandahar
, meeting in a special council (a
loya jirga
) vote to make
Ahmad Shah Durrani
their leader in
Afghanistan
and beginning the
Durrani Empire
.
- October 21
– King George II transfers
Thomas Herring
, Archbishop of York, to become the new
Archbishop of Canterbury
, three days after the death of
John Potter
- October 24
– A Caribbean Sea hurricane sweeps across
Saint Kitts
, sinking 12 British freighters and one from France.
[4]
- 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.
[5]
- November 17
?
19
– The
Knowles Riot
breaks out in
Boston
, Massachusetts, protesting
impressment
into the British
Royal Navy
, .
- November 22
– End of
Second Stadtholderless period
: Prince
William IV
of Orange becomes stadtholder of all the
United Provinces
.
- December 7
–
Benjamin Franklin
forms the
Pennsylvania
Associators
, the first militia in the colony of Pennsylvania, which had no standing militia because of its foundation by pacifistic
Quakers
.
[6]
- December 13
– The ordeal of the
Maryland
freighter
sloop
Endeavour
begins when the ship departs
Annapolis
for the
West Indies
and encounters a hurricane. With its masts and rigging torn away, the ship drifts for six months before finally ending up at the island of
Tiree
off the coast of
Scotland
[7]
- December 27
– The Parliament of Great Britain amends its
Naturalisation Act of 1740
to extend recognition to all non-Anglican Protestant denominations in its colonies.
[8]
Date unknown
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Births
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- May 5
–
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
(d.
1792
)
[10]
- May 7
–
Judith van Dorth
, Dutch
Orangist
(d.
1799
)
- June 23
–
Michele Troja
, Italian physician (d.
1827
)
- July 2
–
Rose Bertin
, French fashion designer (d.
1813
)
- July 6
–
John Paul Jones
, American naval captain (d.
1792
)
[11]
- September 9
–
Thomas Coke
, first
American Methodist
Bishop
(d.
1814
)
- October 8
–
Jean-Francois Rewbell
, French politician (d.
1807
)
- September 12
–
Caleb Brewster
, Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (d.
1827
)
- December 12
–
Anna Seward
, English writer (d.
1809
)
[12]
- December 31
–
Gottfried August Burger
, German poet (d.
1794
)
- date unknown
Deaths
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- January 2
–
Lord George Graham
, Royal Navy officer and MP (b.
1715
)
- January 16
–
Barthold Heinrich Brockes
, German poet (b.
1680
)
[13]
- January 26
–
Willem van Mieris
, Dutch painter (b.
1662
)
- March 2
–
Margravine Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth
, German noble (b.
1713
)
- March 14
–
Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg
, German aristocrat and general (b.
1661
)
- 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 3
–
Francesco Solimena
, Italian painter (b.
1657
)
- 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
)
- April 14
–
Jean-Frederic Osterwald
, Swiss Protestant pastor (b.
1663
)
- 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
)
[14]
- May 31
–
Andrei Osterman
, Russian statesman (b.
1686
)
- June 8
–
Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton
, English cricketer (b.
1702
)
- June 17
–
Avdotya Chernysheva
, Russian noble,
lady in waiting
(b.
1693
)
See also
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References
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- ^
"The Baptism of Sultan Azim ud-Din of Sulu", by Ebrhard Crailsheim, in
Image - Object - Performance: Mediality and Communication in Cultural Contact Zones of Colonial Latin America and the Philippines
(Waxmann Verlag, 2013) p101
- ^
"Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat", by J.W. Allen, in
Lives of Twelve Bad Men: Original Studies of Eminent Scoundrels by Various Hands
(T. Fisher Unwin, 1894) p196
- ^
Henry L. Fulton,
Dr. John Moore, 1729?1802: A Life in Medicine, Travel, and Revolution
(Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) p76
- ^
Lloyd's List
No. 1259
, December 18, 1747
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Van den Heuvel, Danielle (Spring 2012). "The Multiple Identities of Early Modern Dutch Fishwives".
Signs
.
37
(3). University of Chicago Press: 587?594.
doi
:
10.1086/662705
.
JSTOR
10.1086/662705
.
S2CID
145342581
.
... 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.
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T"Associators", by Paul G. Pierpaoli, Jr., in
American Revolution: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection
(ABC-CLIO, 2018) p85
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Rosemary F. Williams,
Maritime Annapolis: A History of Watermen, Sails & Midshipmen
(Arcadia Publishing, 2009)
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George W. Forell, ed.,
Nine Public Lectures on Important Subjects in Religion
by Nicholaus Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1998) p xxix
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Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) (January 1, 1994).
The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld
. University of Georgia Press. p. 43.
ISBN
978-0-8203-1528-7
.
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Frank Moore Colby; Talcott Williams (1930).
The New International Encyclopaedia
. Dodd, Mead. p. 788.
- ^
John Paul Jones (1845).
Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones...
Walker & Gillis. pp. 11?.
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Paula R. Feldman (January 19, 2001).
British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology
. JHU Press. p. 647.
ISBN
978-0-8018-6640-1
.
- ^
German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730
. Gale Research. 1996. p. 62.
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Peter Martin Fine (1974).
Vauvenargues and La Rochefoucauld
. Manchester University Press. p. 1.
ISBN
978-0-7190-0588-6
.
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Frajese, Carlo (1970).
"Bononcini, Giovanni"
.
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani
, Vol. 12
. Retrieved
October 2,
2015
.
(in Italian)
.
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Gaze, Delia (2001).
Concise Dictionary of Women Artists
. Taylor & Francis. p. 438.
ISBN
978-1-57958-335-4
.
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Charles F. Partington (1838).
The British Cyclopedia of Biography
. p. 188.