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Year '1747' ('MDCCXLVII') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Ongoing events

Births

Deaths

Events of

January - June

★ January 31 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

★ February 11 - A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Coulon de Villiers, attacks British troops at Grand Pré, Nova Scotia.


★ April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain.

★ May 14 - War of the Austrian Succession: First battle of Cape Finisterre.

★ June 9 - Emperor Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Sakuramachi.

July - December

★ July 2 - Battle of Lauffeld is fought.

★ October 25 - War of the Austrian Succession: Second battle of Cape Finisterre.

★ November 9 - Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform.


★ November 22 - Prince William IV of Orange becomes stadtholder of all the provinces of the United Provinces.

★ December 16 - Canter of Coltbrigg – 13th and 14th Dragoons flee Jacobites of Charles Edward Stuart.

Undated

★ Kandahar taken by Ahmad Shah Durrani, and becomes the first capital of the newly-independent Afghanistan.

★ Thomas Herring is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.

★ James Lind discovers 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.

Ongoing events

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

★ Samuel Johnson begins work on ''A Dictionary of the English Language''.

Births

★ January 15 - John Aikin, English doctor and writer (died 1822)

★ January 19 - Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (died 1826)

★ January 26 - Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster (died 1825)

★ February 19 - John "Walking" Stewart, traveller and philosopher (died 1822)

★ February 21 - Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (died 1795)

★ May 5 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1792)

★ July 6 - John Paul Jones, American naval captain (died 1792)

★ September 9 - Thomas Coke, first American Methodist Bishop (died 1814)

★ October 8 - Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (died 1807)

★ December 12 - Anna Seward, English writer (died 1809)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ François Tourte, French musical instrument maker (died 1835)

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★ Francis Salvador, American patriot (died 1776)
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Deaths

★ January 16 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (born 1680)

★ March 16 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (born 1690)

★ March 23 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (born 1675)

★ April 2 - Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (born 1684)

★ April 7 - Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (born 1676)

★ April 9 - Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief (born c.1667)

★ May 9 - John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (born 1673)

★ May 28 - Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (born 1715)

★ May 31 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (born 1686)

★ June - Nadir Shah, Persian leader (born 1688)

★ June 19 - Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (born 1669)

★ July 9 - Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (born 1670)

★ October 10 - John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c.1674)

★ November 17 - Alain-René Le Sage, French writer (born 1668)

★ December 2 - Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (born 1695)
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