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October 1 : Ahmad Shah Durrani is crowned as king of Afghanistan . July 2 : France wins the Battle of Lauffeld over British, Dutch and Hanoverian troops.(1836 painting by Auguste Couder)Wikimedia Commons has media related to
1747 .
1747 (MDCCXLVII ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar , the 1747th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 747th year of the 2nd millennium , the 47th year of the 18th century , and the 8th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1747, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events January–March April–June July–September October–December October 1 – On the 7th day of Shawwal, 1160 A.H., Pashtun chieftains in Kandahar , meeting in a special council (a loya jirga ) vote to make Ahmad Shah Durrani their leader in Afghanistan and beginning the Durrani Empire .October 21 – King George II transfers Thomas Herring , Archbishop of York, to become the new Archbishop of Canterbury , three days after the death of John Potter October 24 – A Caribbean Sea hurricane sweeps across Saint Kitts , sinking 12 British freighters and one from France.[4] October 25 – War of the Austrian Succession – Second battle of Cape Finisterre : The British Navy again defeats a French fleet.November 9 – Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform.[5] November 17 –19 – The Knowles Riot breaks out in Boston , Massachusetts, protesting impressment into the British Royal Navy , .November 22 – End of Second Stadtholderless period : Prince William IV of Orange becomes stadtholder of all the United Provinces .December 7 – Benjamin Franklin forms the Pennsylvania Associators , the first militia in the colony of Pennsylvania, which had no standing militia because of its foundation by pacifistic Quakers .[6] December 13 – The ordeal of the Maryland freighter sloop Endeavour begins when the ship departs Annapolis for the West Indies and encounters a hurricane. With its masts and rigging torn away, the ship drifts for six months before finally ending up at the island of Tiree off the coast of Scotland [7] December 27 – The Parliament of Great Britain amends its Naturalisation Act of 1740 to extend recognition to all non-Anglican Protestant denominations in its colonies.[8] Date unknown Births Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor May 5 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792 )[10] May 7 – Judith van Dorth , Dutch Orangist (d. 1799 )June 23 – Michele Troja , Italian physician (d. 1827 )July 2 – Rose Bertin , French fashion designer (d. 1813 )July 6 – John Paul Jones , American naval captain (d. 1792 )[11] September 9 – Thomas Coke , first American Methodist Bishop (d. 1814 )October 8 – Jean-François Rewbell , French politician (d. 1807 )September 12 – Caleb Brewster , Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (d. 1827 )December 12 – Anna Seward , English writer (d. 1809 )[12] December 31 – Gottfried August Bürger , German poet (d. 1794 )date unknown Deaths January 2 – Lord George Graham , Royal Navy officer and MP (b. 1715 )January 16 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes , German poet (b. 1680 )[13] January 26 – Willem van Mieris , Dutch painter (b. 1662 )March 2 – Margravine Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth , German noble (b. 1713 )March 14 – Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg , German aristocrat and general (b. 1661 )March 16 – Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst , father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690 )March 23 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval , French soldier (b. 1675 )April 2 – Johann Jacob Dillenius , German botanist (b. 1684 )April 3 – Francesco Solimena , Italian painter (b. 1657 )April 7 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau , Prussian field marshal (b. 1676 )April 9 – Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat , Scottish clan chief (b. c. 1667 )April 14 – Jean-Frédéric Osterwald , Swiss Protestant pastor (b. 1663 )May 9 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair , Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673 )May 28 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues , French writer (b. 1715 )[14] May 31 – Andrei Osterman , Russian statesman (b. 1686 )June 8 – Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton , English cricketer (b. 1702 )June 17 – Avdotya Chernysheva , Russian noble, lady in waiting (b. 1693 )Nader Shah See also References