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1743

Events of 1743

February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
February 21 - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson.

May 10 - In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ended his final term (multiple times over 43 years) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize; he was succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil (for the next ten years) and returned to France.
June 16 - The Battle of Dettingen is fought in Bavaria. King George II of Great Britain leads his own troops, the last British king to do so.

January 25 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (died 1819)
February 13 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (died 1820)
February 19 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (died 1805)
February 23 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (died 1812)
March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (died 1818)
March 14 - Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (died 1809)
April 1 - Richard Butler (general) American soldier (died 1793)
April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (died 1826)
May 17 - Seth Warner American revolutionary hero (died 1784)
June 3 - José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Spanish viceroy of Peru (died 1821)
August 26 - Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (died 1794)
September 11 - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter (died 1809)
September 17 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (died 1794)
December 23 - Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (died 1803)
date unknown - Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician (died 1834)