History
1743
General
Population: 786 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Henry Fielding, Voltaire Merope,
Art includes Hogarth "Marriage a la Mode",
Music includes Handel
- Deaths: Francesco Stradivari the (son of ) Italian violin maker, Author Richard Savage, Architect Thomas Archer
Americas
- General: Early days of King George's War
Europe
- General: French defeated by English at Dettingen
Alliance between Austria and Saxony
Treaty of Fontainbleau
Battle of Dettingen – French defeated by George II of England
- France: End of reign of Cardinal Fleury as governor of France
- German States: University of Erlangen founded
Battle in Bavaria
- Great Britain: End of Sir Spencer Compton as British Prime Minister - Henry Pelham serves
East India yarn imported into Lancashire fo manufacture of finer goods
- Holy Roman Empire: Maria Theresa crowned at Prague
- Italian States: French geographer Jean d'Anville creates map of Italy
Plague outbreak
- Russia: Pogroms instituted
Middle East
- General: Turko-Persian war continues
General
- Military: Early days of King George's War
- Science: Thomas Jefferson conducts scientific excavations of Native American sites and fossils
East
- Pennsylvania: Ben Franklin founds American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia – for science
Midwest
- General: First settlement in S. Dakota
West and Pacific
- General: French explorers reach Rocky Mountains