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1743 Calendar

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•  May 12, 1743 – Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
•  June 27, 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
•  September 13, 1743 – Great Britain, Austria and Savoy-Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
•  November 5, 1743 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

•  January 25, 1743 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819)
•  February 19, 1743 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805)
•  April 13, 1743 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
•  May 17, 1743 – Seth Warner, American revolutionary leader (d. 1784)
•  May 24, 1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
•  August 19, 1743 – Madame du Barry, French courtesan (d. 1793)
•  August 26, 1743 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
•  September 17, 1743 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)
•  November 11, 1743 – Carl Peter Thunberg, Swedish naturalist (d. 1828)
•  December 23, 1743 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)