1743
*
February 14 -
Henry Pelham becomes
British Prime Minister*
February 21 - - The premiere in
London of
George Frideric Handel's
oratorio,
Samson.
*
September 13 -
Treaty of Worms (1743) - a treaty between
Great Britain,
Austria and
Sardinia*
Battle of Dettingen*
War of the Austrian Succession (
1740-
1748)
*
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)
*
April 13 -
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd
President of the United States (d.
1826)
*
May 17 -
Seth Warner American revolutionary hero (d.
1784)
*
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)
*
José Fernando de Abascal, Spanish viceroy of Peru
*
Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician
*
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, English statesman
*
August 5 -
John Hervey, Lord 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)
