History
1744
General
Population: 792 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Samuel Johnson, George Berkeley (philosophy), Benjamin Franklin (edits Cicero's "Cato Major"),
Lodovico Antonio Muratori (Italian history)
Art includes JM Rusbrack (scultpure)
Music includes JS Bach, Glick (opera), CPE Bach
- Exploration: Sir George Anson returns from voyage around the world
- Science: Jean d'Alembert writes about fluid movement
Sea anemones and polyps reclassified as animals
- Deaths: Philosopher Giovanni Battista Vico, Settler William Byrd II, Poet Alexander Pope,
Americas
- General: British and French fight King George's War in Americas
- Canada: French troops occupy Annapolis Nova Scotia but withdraw Britain raids Louisbourg and French raid New York in King George's War
- South America: Eruption of Mount Cotopaxi (Ecuador) - second in four years
Asia
- India: Robert Clive arrives in Madras as clerk with East India Company
Europe
- General: France declares war on England and on Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire
Second Silesian War begins – Frederick the Great takes Prauge but is driven back to Saxony
- France: French conduct national geographic survey and publishes first map based on scientific principles
- Great Britain: "God Save the Queen" published
Madrigal Society of London founded
First recorded cricket match – Kent v. All England
- Russia: Peter heir to the Russian throne (Peter III) marries Catherine (born Sophia) of Anhalt-Zerbst
- Sweden: Adolphus Frederick heir to Swedish throne marries Princess Ulrica daughter of Frederick the Great of Prussia
Middle East
- General: Ruling Arab family Sa-Udi adopts teachings of Abd-al-Wahhab and becomes Wahhabi
General
- Military: British and French fight King George's War in Americas - British capture Louisbourg French raid New York
East
- New York: French raid city
South
- South Carolina: Eliza Lucas grows indigo
- Virginia: Death of William Byrd II the rich Virginia planter and builder of Westover