Editing 1747 (section)

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 1]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; King George II transfers [[Thomas Herring]], Archbishop of York, to become the new [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], three days after the death of [[John Potter (bishop)|John Potter]]
* [[October 24]] &ndash; A Caribbean Sea hurricane sweeps across [[Saint Kitts]], sinking 12 British freighters and one from France.<ref>[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044105232839&view=1up&seq=214&size=125 ''Lloyd's List'' No. 1259], December 18, 1747</ref>
* [[October 25]] &ndash; [[War of the Austrian Succession]] &ndash; [[Second battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)|Second battle of Cape Finisterre]]: The British Navy again defeats a French fleet.
* [[November 9]] &ndash; [[Riot]]ers in [[Amsterdam]] demand governmental reform.<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Multiple Identities of Early Modern Dutch Fishwives|last=Van den Heuvel|first=Danielle|journal=[[Signs (journal)|Signs]]|volume=37|issue=3|date=Spring 2012|pages=587–594|publisher=University of Chicago Press|jstor=10.1086/662705|quote=... in 1747 fishwives organized a large political demonstration in Amsterdam, and in 1748 the Amsterdam fish hawker Marretje Arents was one of the principal initiators of a tax riot in the city.|doi=10.1086/662705|s2cid=145342581 }}</ref>
* [[November 17]]–[[November 19|19]] &ndash; The [[Knowles Riot]] breaks out in [[Boston]], Massachusetts, protesting [[impressment]] into the British [[Royal Navy]], .
* [[November 22]] &ndash; End of [[Second Stadtholderless period]]: Prince [[William IV, Prince of Orange|William IV]] of Orange becomes stadtholder of all the [[Dutch Republic|United Provinces]].
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Franklin]] forms the [[Province of Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] [[Associators]], the first militia in the colony of Pennsylvania, which had no standing militia because of its foundation by pacifistic [[Quakers]].<ref>T"Associators", by Paul G. Pierpaoli, Jr., in ''American Revolution: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection'' (ABC-CLIO, 2018) p85</ref>
* [[December 13]] &ndash; The ordeal of the [[Province of Maryland|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]]<ref>Rosemary F. Williams, ''Maritime Annapolis: A History of Watermen, Sails & Midshipmen'' (Arcadia Publishing, 2009)</ref> 
* [[December 27]] &ndash; The Parliament of Great Britain amends its [[Plantation Act 1740|Naturalisation Act 1740]] to extend recognition to all non-Anglican Protestant denominations in its colonies.<ref>George W. Forell, ed., ''Nine Public Lectures on Important Subjects in Religion'' by Nicholaus Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1998) p xxix</ref>