Editing 1747

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[[File:Coronation of Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747 by Breshna.jpg|thumb|300px|[[October 1]]: [[Ahmad Shah Durrani]] is crowned as king of [[Afghanistan]].]] 
[[File:Bataille de Lawfeld, 2 juillet 1747.jpeg|thumb|300px|[[July 2]]: France wins the [[Battle of Lauffeld]] over British, Dutch and Hanoverian troops.(1836 painting by Auguste Couder)]]
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== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 31]] &ndash;  The first [[venereal disease]]s clinic opens at [[London Lock Hospital]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[King George's War]]: A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain [[Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers]], [[Battle of Grand Pré|attacks and defeats British troops]] at [[Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia]].
* [[March 7]] &ndash; [[Juan de Arechederra]] the Spanish [[Governor-General of the Philippines]], combines  his forces with those of Sultan [[Azim ud-Din I of Sulu]] to suppress the rebellion of the [[Moro people|Moros]] in the [[Visayas]].<ref>"The Baptism of Sultan Azim ud-Din of Sulu", by Ebrhard Crailsheim, in ''Image - Object - Performance: Mediality and Communication in Cultural Contact Zones of Colonial Latin America and the Philippines'' (Waxmann Verlag, 2013) p101</ref>
* [[March 19]] &ndash; [[Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat|Simon Fraser]], the 79-year old Scottish Lord Lovat, is convicted of high treason for being one of the leaders of the [[Jacobite rising of 1745]] against King [[George II of Great Britain]] and attempting to place the pretender [[Charles Edward Stuart]] on the throne.<ref>
"Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat", by J.W. Allen, in ''Lives of Twelve Bad Men: Original Studies of Eminent Scoundrels by Various Hands'' (T. Fisher Unwin, 1894) p196</ref>  After a seven day trial of impeachment in the [[House of Lords]] and the verdict of guilt, Fraser is sentenced on the same day to be [[hanged, drawn and quartered]]; King George alters Fraser's punishment to [[Decapitation|beheading]], which is carried out publicly on April 9.

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 9]] &ndash; The Scottish [[Jacobitism|Jacobite]] [[Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat|Lord Lovat]] is beheaded at [[Tower Hill]], [[London]], for [[high treason]]. He was the last person in [[Great Britain|Britain]] to be beheaded, although beheading would not be formally abolished until more than 200 years later.
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[War of the Austrian Succession]] &ndash; [[First battle of Cape Finisterre (1747)|First battle of Cape Finisterre]]: The British Navy defeats a French fleet.
* [[June 9]] &ndash; [[Emperor Momozono of Japan|Emperor Momozono]] ascends to the throne of [[Japan]], succeeding [[Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan|Emperor Sakuramachi]].
* [[June 24]]&ndash;[[October 14]] &ndash; The [[England|English]] ships ''Dobbs'' galley and ''California'', under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore [[Hudson Bay]], discovering there is no [[Northwest Passage]] by this route.

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[War of the Austrian Succession]] &ndash; [[Battle of Lauffeld]]: France defeats the combined armies of [[Hanover]], [[Great Britain]] and the [[Netherlands]].
* [[August 15]] &ndash; [[Great Britain]], [[Russian Empire|Russia]] and the [[Dutch Republic]] sign the [[Convention of Saint Petersburg (1747)]].
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Seyyid Abdullah Pasha]], the Turkish Governor of Cyprus, becomes the new [[Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] and serves until 1750.
*[[September 13]] &ndash; The [[Netherlands]] city of [[Bergen op Zoom]] falls to the Army of France after a 70 day [[Siege of Bergen op Zoom (1747)|siege]] during the [[War of the Austrian Succession]].<ref>Henry L. Fulton, ''Dr. John Moore, 1729–1802: A Life in Medicine, Travel, and Revolution'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) p76</ref>
* [[September 21]] &ndash; A hurricane in the Caribbean Sea sinks 11 British ships{{dubious|reason=is this the same St Kitts hurricane in October?|date=November 2022}}, most of them off the coast of [[Saint Kitts]].

=== 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>

=== Date unknown ===
* [[James Lind]]'s experiment begins to prove that [[citrus]] fruits prevent [[scurvy]].
* [[War of the Austrian Succession]]: Spanish troops invade and occupy the coastal towns of [[Beaufort, North Carolina|Beaufort]] and [[Brunswick, North Carolina|Brunswick]] in the [[Royal Colony of North Carolina]], during what becomes known as the [[Spanish Alarm]]. They are later driven out by the local militia.
* [[Samuel Johnson]] begins work on ''[[A Dictionary of the English Language]]'' in London.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[January 10]] &ndash; [[Abraham-Louis Breguet]], Swiss [[horologist]], inventor (d. [[1823]]) 
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[John Aikin]], English doctor and writer (d. [[1822]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia)|title=The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FIqa-7dx_N0C&pg=PR43|date=1 January 1994|publisher=University of Georgia Press|isbn=978-0-8203-1528-7|pages=43}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] &ndash; [[Johann Elert Bode]], German astronomer (d. [[1826]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Eugenio Espejo]], Ecuadorian scientist (d. [[1795]])
* [[February 28]] &ndash; [[Justin Morgan]], American horse breeder and composer (d. [[1798]])
[[File:Johann Daniel Donat, Emperor Leopold II in the Regalia of the Golden Fleece (1806).png|thumb|right|110px|[[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor]]]]
* [[May 5]] &ndash; [[Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor]] (d. [[1792]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frank Moore Colby|author2=Talcott Williams|title=The New International Encyclopaedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fr8rAQAAMAAJ|year=1930|publisher=Dodd, Mead|pages=788}}</ref>
* [[May 7]] &ndash; [[Judith van Dorth]], Dutch [[Orangism (Netherlands)|Orangist]] (d. [[1799]])
* [[June 23]] &ndash; [[Michele Troja]], Italian physician (d. [[1827]]) 
* [[July 2]] &ndash; [[Rose Bertin]], French fashion designer (d. [[1813]])
* [[July 6]] &ndash; [[John Paul Jones]], American naval captain (d. [[1792]])<ref>{{cite book|author=John Paul Jones|title=Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=El0SAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11|year=1845|publisher=Walker & Gillis|pages=11–}}</ref>
* [[September 9]] &ndash; [[Thomas Coke (bishop)|Thomas Coke]], first [[United Methodist Church|American Methodist]] [[Bishop]] (d. [[1814]])
* [[October 8]] &ndash; [[Jean-François Rewbell]], French politician (d. [[1807]])
* [[September 12]] &ndash; [[Caleb Brewster]], Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (d. [[1827]])
* [[December 12]] &ndash; [[Anna Seward]], English writer (d. [[1809]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Paula R. Feldman|title=British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cg6Jn410aCIC&pg=PA647|date=19 January 2001|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-0-8018-6640-1|pages=647}}</ref>
* [[December 31]] &ndash; [[Gottfried August Bürger]], German poet (d. [[1794]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[François Tourte]], French musical instrument maker (d. [[1835]])
** [[Francis Salvador]], American patriot (d. [[1776]])
** [[Anne Pépin]], Senegalese Signara (d. [[1837]])
** [[Grigory Shelikhov]], Russian merchant (d. [[1795]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 2]] &ndash; [[Lord George Graham]], Royal Navy officer and MP (b. [[1715]])
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Barthold Heinrich Brockes]], German poet (b. [[1680]])<ref>{{cite book|title=German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730|publisher=Gale Research|year=1996|page=62}}</ref>
* [[January 26]] &ndash; [[Willem van Mieris]], Dutch painter (b. [[1662]])
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Margravine Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth]], German noble (b. [[1713]])
* [[March 14]] &ndash; [[Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg]], German aristocrat and general (b. [[1661]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst]], father of [[Catherine II of Russia]] (b. [[1690]])
* [[March 23]] &ndash; [[Claude Alexandre de Bonneval]], French soldier (b. [[1675]])
* [[April 2]] &ndash; [[Johann Jacob Dillenius]], German botanist (b. [[1684]])
* [[April 3]] &ndash; [[Francesco Solimena]], Italian painter (b. [[1657]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau]], Prussian field marshal (b. [[1676]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat]], Scottish clan chief (b. c. [[1667]])
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Jean-Frédéric Osterwald]], Swiss Protestant pastor (b. [[1663]])
* [[May 9]] &ndash; [[John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair]], Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. [[1673]])
* [[May 28]] &ndash; [[Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues]], French writer (b. [[1715]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter Martin Fine|title=Vauvenargues and La Rochefoucauld|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5327AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1|year=1974|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-0588-6|pages=1}}</ref>
* [[May 31]] &ndash; [[Andrei Osterman]], Russian statesman (b. [[1686]])
* [[June 8]] &ndash; [[Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton]], English cricketer (b. [[1702]])
* [[June 17]] &ndash; [[Avdotya Chernysheva]], Russian noble, [[lady in waiting]] (b. [[1693]])
[[File:NaderShahPainting.png|thumb|right|110px|[[Nader Shah]]]]
* [[June 19]] 
** [[Nader Shah]], Persian leader (b. [[1688]])
** [[Alessandro Marcello]], Italian composer (b. [[1669]])
* [[July 9]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Bononcini]], Italian composer (b. [[1670]])<ref>{{cite web|author=Frajese, Carlo |year=1970 |url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-bononcini_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/|title=Bononcini, Giovanni|website=[[Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani]], Vol. 12|access-date=2 October 2015}} {{in lang|it}}.</ref>
* [[October 7]] &ndash; [[Giulia Lama]], Italian painter (b. [[1681]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gaze |first1=Delia |title=Concise Dictionary of Women Artists |date=2001 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-57958-335-4 |page=438 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V4h7A0XIN14C&pg=PA438 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 9]] &ndash; [[David Brainerd]], American missionary (b. [[1718]])
* [[October 10]] &ndash; [[John Potter (Archbishop)|John Potter]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]] (b. c. [[1674]])
* [[October 4]] &ndash; [[Amaro Pargo]], Spanish corsair (b. [[1678]])
* [[November 17]] &ndash; [[Alain-René Lesage]], French writer (b. [[1668]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Charles F. Partington|title=The British Cyclopedia of Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLkTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA188|year=1838|pages=188}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] &ndash; [[Vincent Bourne]], English classical scholar (b. [[1695]])

==See also==
* [[List of 1747 Holy Roman Empire incumbents]]

==References==
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