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2 March – War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of La Guaira – A British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish off the South American coast. 13 April – British East India Company ship Princess Louisa is wrecked off the coast of Maio Island in the Cape Verde Islands, killing 49 of her 179 crew.
1743 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1743rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 743rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1743, the ...
Events from the year 1743 in Scotland. Incumbents ... desert while on the march to London; the ringleaders are executed on 18 July in the Tower of London. ...
22 March 1744 An Act for the Sale of certain Houses and Ground in Woolwich, Part of the settled Estate of Edward Bowater Esquire, pursuant to an Agreement with the Commissioners of the Navy; and for applying the Money arising by such Sale in the Purchase of another Estate, to be settled to the Uses of his Marriage Settlement.
March 16 – King Edward of the Miskito Indians signs a treaty making his kingdom, located on the coast of modern-day Nicaragua, a protectorate of Great Britain. [ 2 ] March 25 – Construction begins on Bethesda Orphanage for boys near Savannah, Georgia , founded by George Whitefield .
Britain was drawn diplomatically into that conflict in 1742 as an ally of Austria and an opponent of France and Prussia, but open hostilities between them did not take place until 1743 at Dettingen. War was not formally declared between Britain and France until March 1744. Massachusetts did not declare war against Canada and France until June 2 ...
March 4 – Johann David Wyss, Swiss novelist writing in German (died 1818) March 14 – Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809) April 13 – Thomas Jefferson, American revolutionary and president (died 1826; June 20 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet (died 1825) July 14 – Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin, Russian lyric poet ...
The Jacobite rising of 1745 [a] was an attempt by Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart.It took place during the War of the Austrian Succession, when the bulk of the British Army was fighting in mainland Europe, and proved to be the last in a series of revolts that began in March 1689, with major outbreaks in 1715 and 1719.