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Year '1744' ('MDCCXLIV') was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of

January - June

★ February 22–February 23 - British fleet defeated by a Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Toulon.

★ April 20 - At the Battle of Villafranca, a joint French and Spanish force defeats Britain and Sardinia.

★ June 28 - Catherine the Great is received into the Russian Orthodox Church.

July - December

★ July 19 - Battle of Casteldelfino, between France and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

★ September 30 - In the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Undated

★ The third French and Indian War, known as "King George's War," breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.

★ The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud.

★ Prague is occupied by Prussian armies.

Ongoing events

★ War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748).

Births

★ January 10 - Thomas Mifflin, fifth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation (died 1800)

★ February 6 - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (died 1795)

★ May 19 - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of Great Britain (died 1818)

★ July 17 - Elbridge Gerry, American politician (died 1814)

★ July 20 - Joshua Clayton, American politician (died 1798)

★ August 1 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist (died 1829)

★ August 25 - Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (died 1803)

★ September 25 - King Frederick William II of Prussia (died 1797)

★ November 11 - Abigail Adams, wife of American President John Adams (died 1818)
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Deaths

★ January 23 - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (born 1668)

★ January 26 - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (born 1683)

★ March 3 - Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist (born 1674)

★ April 25 - Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (born 1701)

★ May 30 - Alexander Pope, English writer (born 1688)

★ June 29 - André Campra, French composer (born 1660)

★ July - Mihai Racoviţă, Prince of Moldavia and Prince of Wallachia

★ August 9 - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (born 1673)

★ August 13 - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (born 1678)

★ August 26 - William Byrd II, prominent planter from Virginia (born 1674)

★ October 18 - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of Anne of England (born 1660)

★ October 31 - Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (born 1694)

★ December 8 - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV of France (born 1717)
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