Year 1743 (MDCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

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January–June

• February 14 – Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
• February 21 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson premieres in London .
• March 2 – Battle of La Guaira: a British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish.
• May 10 – In New France, Governor 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 Marquis de Vaudreuil (for the next 10 years) and returns to France.
• June 16 – Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria: King George II of Great Britain leads his own troops, the last British king to do so.

July–December

• August 7 – Russia and Sweden sign the Treaty of bo.
• September 11 – Natalia Lopukhina is flogged in front of the Twelve Collegia building in Saint Petersburg.
• September 13 – The Treaty of Worms is signed between Great Britain, Austria, and Sardinia.
• November 5 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

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Births

• January 18 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu. (d. 1803)
• January 25 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819)
• February 13 – Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (d. 1820)
• February 19 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805)
• February 23 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
• March 4 – Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (d. 1818)
• March 14 – Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (d. 1809)
• April 1 – Richard Butler (general) American soldier (d. 1793)
• April 13 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States, author of the Declaration of American Indepenence (d. 1826)
• May 17 – Seth Warner American revolutionary hero (d. 1784)
• May 20 – Toussaint Louverture, Haitian rebel (d. 1803)
• May 24 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutioner, doctor, scientist (d. 1793)
• June 3 – Jos Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Spanish viceroy of Peru (d. 1821)
• August 26 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
• September 11 – Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter (d. 1809)
• September 17 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (d. 1794)
• December 23 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
• date unknown – K roly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1834)

Deaths

• January 3 – Ferdinando Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1657)
• January 29 – Cardinal Andr -Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of Fr jus, chief minister of France under Louis XV (b. 1653)
• January 29 – Charles-Ir n e Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer (b. 1658)
• February 18 – Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, last of the Medicis (b. 1667)
• April 4 – Daniel Neal, English historian (b. 1678)
• June 16 – Louise-Fran oise de Bourbon, eldest daughter of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan; she built the Paris Palais Bourbon where she died (b. 1673)
• July 2 – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, second Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• August 5 – John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English statesman and writer (b. 1696)
• September 14 – Nicolas Lancret, French painter (b. 1690)
• September 21 – Jai Singh II, King of Amber-Juiper, India (b. 1688)
• October 4 – John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, Scottish soldier (b. 1678)
• December 27 – Hyacinthe Rigaud, French painter (b. 1659)

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