1743

This page relates to the year 1743 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

January 1st: The wire Vérendrye go up the High Missouri to the foot of the Rocky Mountains. They assert the American west for the France.

Ethiopia: beginning of the reign of Amha-Yasou, king of the Choa (fine in 1774).

May: Van Imhoff becomes general governor of the Dutch Compagnie of the Eastern Indies with Batavia (fine in 1750): It tries to reform the methods of trade and colonization of use in Indonesia, but its reformism will go bankrupt.

the Dutch colonial system is gangréné by corruption, favoritism and the roughness with the profit. The control of increasingly vast territories in an increasingly strict state of dependence requires a fleet and an important army. The production ceiling to hold the courses ends up drying up certain resources and exports to Europe tend to decrease, whereas the Asian market is competed with by the British and the French. To hide the deficits and to guarantee the dividends with the shareholders, the directors practice a systematic policy of loans.

April 11th: The Marquis of Ensenada becomes Prime Minister in Spain (fine in 1754). It starts a policy of tax reform. It tries to remove Alcabala S and millones (indirect taxes on the consumables) in their substituent an income tax all which would be founded on the extent and the value of the grounds; But the cadastration necessary which conduit remain there about limited to the Catalogne and the estimate of movable fortune cannot be concluded (1750).
May 12th: Marie-Therese is crowned “king” of Bohemia to Prague.
May:

Creation of an Office of the claims in Russia.
War of succession of Austria: Lord Carteret, by a skilful diplomacy, succeeds in insulating France and making direct the coalition by Georges II of Great Britain, voter of Hanover.

June 13rd: Shipwreck of the Hollandia , failed the islands of Scilly on its return of the Eastern Indies.
June 16th: Preliminaries of peace enters the Russia and the Sweden.
June 27th: Battle of Dettingen (Bavaria). The armies British and hanovrienne, joined by the Austrians, demolish there a French Army ordered by the marshal of Noailles.
July: The second alliance free-Prussian.
August 7th: Treated of Åbo (Turku) between the Russia and the Sweden. The Karelia is annexed by the Russians. Adolphe-Frederic, wire of the duke of Holstein-Gottorp is imposed like heir by the empress to Russia Elisabeth Petrovna. End of the War Russo-Suédoise of 1741-1743.
August 27th: Beginning of the ministry whig of Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of Great Britain (fine in 1754).
September 13rd: Treated Worms between the Austria, the Great Britain, the Saxony, the Hanover and the Piedmont which give themselves for goal the catch of the Alsace, the Lorraine and of the Three bishoprices to the France.
October 25th: Renewal of the Pact of family between the Bourbons.
December: Resumption of the Franco-Russian relations, stopped during the war of Russia against Sweden.

Metz-native Plague with .
Russia: Creation of a conference of the ministers, are equivalent of the Cabinet.

January 29th: With died on Fleury, Louis XV, 33 years old, decides to personally exert all the loads of the sovereign capacity. The party warmonger (Tencin, Noailles, Argenson) takes the top until 1756-1757.
March 10th: Noailles becomes minister of state.
December:

New tax edicts recorded without difficulty with the Parliament of Paris.
an Edict of the king Louis XV, given to Versailles, grants to the officers offices finances the survival of their offices, by making by them the repurchase of the annual right.

fast Increase in the French population until in 1771.
agricultural Crisis in Scandinavia. Raise mortality.
Of strong taxes strikes alcohols in Great Britain, contributing to restrict consumption and to fight largely widespread alcoholism.
Santo Domingo produced 43 000 tons of sugar per annum.

January 18th: Louis-Claude of Saint Martin's day, philosopher French († 1803).
February 19th: Luigi Boccherini, Italian type-setter.
February 23rd: Mayer Rotschild, financier
February 28th: Rene Just Haüy, French mineralogist († 1822).
April 13rd: Thomas Jefferson, future President of the United States.
May 1st: Claude Alexis Cochard, lawyer and politician French, appointed of the Third state with the General states of 1789. († October 18th 1815).
May 24th: Jean-Paul Marat, member of the national Convention († July 17th 1793).
July 20th: Costillares (Joaquín Rodríguez), Spanish Matador († January 27th 1800).
August 26th: Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier, French chemist († May 8th 1794).
September 17th:

Nicolas de Condorcet ( Marquis ), mathematician and politician French.
Jean-Baptiste Massieu, monk and politician French, appointed clergy of the Baillage of Senlis to the General states, constitutional Bishop of the department of the Oise. († June 6th 1818).

November 8th: Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig, entomologist Germany († 1831).
November 23rd: Theophilus Malo Corret of the Tower of Auvergne, French soldier celtisant († June 27th 1800)
February 1st: Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist.

Gavriil Romanovitch Derjavine, Russian poet born in Karzan author of Felitsa († 1816).

January 29th: The Cardinal Fleury, Prime Minister of Louis XV, at the 90 years age.
February 10th (or 19?) : Louise-Adelaide of Orleans, abbess of Chelles, girl of the regent Philippe of Orleans (° 1698).
April 20th: Alexandre-François Desportes painter (1661-1743).
December 29th: Hyacinthe Stone, painter (born with Perpignan in 1659).

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