This page relates to the year 1747 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

America

  • Rising against enrôlement forced in the navy of the colony with Boston. Crowd is turned over against a negotiating rich person and colonial administrator, Thomas Hutchinson, which supported the governor during the repression of a riot and imagined a financial system which seems to injure the poor. Its house is mysteriously burnt.
  • Miss Polly appears for the fifth time before the court of justice of Connecticut close to Boston to have put at the world bastard.

  • Meeting of the Danish companies of Iceland and Greenland which allows the colonization of the Greenland.

Africa

  • Beginning of the conquest of the Dahomey (Benign) by the Yoruba S (fine in 1748).
  • Beginning of the reign of Djoda, king of the Ouadaï (fine in 1795).
    • the kings of Ouadaï are confronted with revolts and plots. They must pay a tribute with the Darfur. King Djoda releases from them the country at the end of the century and becomes enough powerful to annex part of the Kanem.

Asia

The Middle East

  • June 19th: The Turkmènes Afchars and Kadjars get rid of Nâdir Shâh. Its nephew Adil Châh seizes the capacity. Its sons (Shah Rukh) preserve only the Khorasan. Its generals share the empire.
  • October: The Afghan chiefs choose for sovereign one of the generals of Nadir Chah, Ahmad Chah Dorrani, member of the tribe Abdali. He proclaims Chah with Kandahar and founds the kingdom of Afghanistan (1747 - 1979). He increases considerably his kingdom while adapting himself Is Iranian, the Balouchistan, the Cachemire, and part of the Panjab. Known under the name of Durri-i-Dauran, it founds the Dynastie Dorrani, disappeared in 1818 (fine of reign in 1773).
  • Muhammad Rahim, chief of the tribe Mankit succeeds the Djanides with Bukhara (1747 - 1758). Its Murad grandson will be made name emir in 1785.

Europe

  • February 2nd: French Victoire of Beautiful-Isle with Antibes on the Austria.

  • April: The French government, which thinks of holding the strategic superiority with the Netherlands, breaks the conferences of peaces held with Breda.
  • May 14th: British naval Victoire on France with the Cape Finisterre.
  • June: Alliance of the Russia and the Great Britain. Russia will receive 100  000 roubles to arm its troops per annum.
  • July: French attempt at invasion of the Piedmont, which is pushed back.
  • the July 2nd, with the Battle of Lauffeld, the French Army, placed under the command of the marshal and Maurice of Saxony, gains a victory over the armies British and Austrian with the orders of the duke of Cumberland, general British and third wire of King Georges Ier of Great Britain.
  • September 16th: Maurice of Saxony takes Bergen COp Zoom in Holland. The king of France turns over to Versailles after this success, eager to obtain peace on consolidated bases.
  • October 25th: Second British naval victory over France with the Cape Finisterre.
  • November 9th: Working class unrest in the main cities of the United Provinces (Leyde, Rotterdam, Amsterdam). The people reproach the capacity, in particular the General states, to have badly led the policy of the country during the war. He asks the return of the stadhouder, which he obtains.
  • November 22nd: Guillaume IV of Orange-Nassau becomes stadhouder of Holland (fine in 1751). Assisted by Bentinck, he announces some measurements to repress the abuses more shouting (removal of the contracts of correspondence, end of the leasing of the taxes, recovery of the incomes of the post office). To cure the financial crisis, he proposes the establishment of capitation to remove paralyzing excesses of the indirect taxation. But, after the peace of Aachen, the majority of the reforms will turn short and Guillaume will approach the regents and will repress the overflows.

  • Abolition of the system of the clans in Scotland. Prohibition of the port of tartan.
  • Second French intervention in Corsica.

France

  • Big rises in the prices of the corn (1747-1748). Crisis of consecutive mortality, particularly in the East and the South (Bordeaux, Auch, Montpellier).

  • January: Disgrace of the marquis d' Argenson, secretary of foreign affairs, in particular marked of hispanophobie. The “hard” line of the mode remains in force with the count d' Argenson, brother of the marquis, remained minister.
  • Machault d' Arnouville finance end of the conflict with blow of loans. Its come to power coincides with the maturity of the new “hard” tendency of the capacity, where the catholic element dominates (1740-1757).

Religion

  • Business of the refusal of sacraments or the “tickets of confessions”, in the diocese of Amiens (1747) then the archbishop's palace of Paris (1752). Directed against the Jansenists, it raises the question of the right to the sacraments, held for inalienable and crowned.

Art & culture

See also: 1747 with the theater

  • September 28th: Daphnis and Chloé , opera ballet of Joseph Bodin de Boismortier.
  • the Palais of Sanssouci close to Potsdam is completed.
  • the architect Fernando de Casas Novoa completes the frontage the principal, known as Obradoiro (the gold work), of the Cathédrale of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle, style Churrigueresque.

Science & technology

  • the British doctor James Lind discovers that the citrus fruits allow to prevent the scurvy.

  • Benjamin Franklin discovers the principle of the Paratonnerre.

Economy & company

  • Discovered in Guyana of the Hévéa, the tree with rubber by French François Fresneau.
  • February 14th: Foundation of the School of the Highways Departments with Paris by Trudaine and Perronet. Rebirth of a coherent highway network in France.
  • Creation of the Counter of iron in Sweden.

Births in 1747

Death in 1747

Easter Day

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