Editing 1743 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Pope Benedict XIV]] issues a new bull, barring agreements by spouses not to appeal annulments of marriages <ref>Louis de Bonald, ''On Divorce'' (Transaction Publishers, 2011) p155</ref>
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Verendrye brothers' journey to the Rocky Mountains|The Verendrye brothers bury a tablet]] claiming the [[Great Plains]] of North America for King [[Louis XV of France]].   A schoolgirl in [[Pierre, South Dakota]], unearths the tablet 170 years later on February 16, 1913.<ref>George M. Wrong, ''The conquest of New France'' (Yale University Press, 1918) p129</ref>
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Prithvi Narayan Shah]] becomes the new King of the [[Gorkha Kingdom]] and begins a campaign to unify the 54 different principalities in the [[Himalayas]] under his rule as part of the [[unification of Nepal]]  <ref>Nanda R. Shrestha, ''In the Name of Development: A Reflection on Nepal'' (University Press of America, 1997) p6</ref>
* [[April 9]] &ndash; The Verendrye brothers make the first contact since 1722 between [[Europe]]ans and the [[Sioux]] Indians, whom they refer to as ''Les Gens de la Fleche Collee'' ("the people of the sheathed arrow").<ref>Royal B. Hassrick, ''The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society'' (University of Oklahoma Press, 2012)</ref>
* [[April 13]] &ndash; The [[British East India Company]] ship ''Princess Louisa'' is wrecked off the coast of [[Maio, Cape Verde|Maio Island]] in the Cape Verde Islands, killing 49 of her 179 crew.
* [[April 18]] &ndash; The trustees of the English [[Trustee Georgia|Province of Georgia]] vote to inaugurate public schools in the corporate territory.<ref>James Ross McCain, ''Georgia as a Proprietary Province: The Execution of a Trust'' (R.G. Badger, 1917) p298</ref>
* [[May 9]] &ndash; Austrian army defeats the Bavarian army in the [[Battle of Simbach]].
* [[May 10]] &ndash; In [[New France]], [[Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville]] ends his final term (multiple times over 43 years) as Governor of colonial [[French Louisiana]], which he helped colonize; he is succeeded by the [[Pierre de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil-Cavagnial|Marquis de Vaudreuil]] (for the next 10 years) and returns to France.
* [[May 30]] &ndash; The [[Dalecarlian rebellion (1743)]] breaks out in Sweden. 
* [[June 27]] (June 16 [[Old Style and New Style dates|O.S.]]) &ndash; [[War of the Austrian Succession]] &ndash; [[Battle of Dettingen]] in [[Bavaria]]: British forces, in alliance with those of [[Electorate of Hanover|Hanover]] and [[Hesse]], defeat a [[Military history of France|French]] army under the [[Adrien Maurice de Noailles|duc de Noailles]]; King [[George II of Great Britain]] (and Elector of Brunswick) leads his own troops, the last British king to do so.