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March 2011 1747 the area code that extends across the San Fernando Valley Area codes 747 and 818 1747 thumb|300px|July 23: Ahmad Shah Durrani is crowned as king of Afghanistan. thumb|300px|July 2: France wins the Battle of Lauffeld over Allied troops.(1836 painting The Battle of Lauffeld by Auguste Couder) 1747 Events January–March January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital. February 11 – King George's War: A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain Nicolas Antoine II Coulon de Villiers, attacks and defeats British troops at Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia. March 7 – Juan de Arechederra the Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines, combines his forces with those of Sultan Azim ud-Din I of Sulu to suppress the rebellion of the Moros in the Visayas."The Baptism of Sultan Azim ud-Din of Sulu", by Ebrhard Crailsheim, in Image - Object - Performance: Mediality and Communication in Cultural Contact Zones of Colonial Latin America and the Philippines (Waxmann Verlag, 2013) p101 March 19 – Simon Fraser, the 79-year old Scottish Lord Lovat, is convicted of high treason for being one of the leaders of the Jacobite rising of 1745 against King George II of Great Britain and attempting to place the pretender Charles Edward Stuart on the throne."Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat", by J.W. Allen, in Lives of Twelve Bad Men: Original Studies of Eminent Scoundrels by Various Hands (T. Fisher Unwin, 1894) p196 After a seven day trial of impeachment in the House of Lords and the verdict of guilt, Fraser is sentenced on the same day to be hanged, drawn and quartered; King George alters Fraser's punishment to beheading, which is carried out publicly on April 9. April–June April 9 – The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat is beheaded at Tower Hill, London, for high treason. He was the last person in Britain to be beheaded, although beheading would not be formally abolished until more than 200 years later. May 14 – War of the Austrian Succession – First battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy defeats a French fleet. June 9 – Emperor Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Sakuramachi. June 24–October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route. July–September July 2 – War of the Austrian Succession – Battle of Lauffeld: France defeats the combined armies of Hanover, Great Britain and the Netherlands. July 23 – Ahmad Shah Durrani establishes the Durrani Empire after being elected by Pashtun chieftains in a jirga at Naderabad, laying the foundation for modern Afghanistan. August 15 – Great Britain, Russia and the Dutch Republic sign the Convention of Saint Petersburg (1747). August 24 – Seyyid Abdullah Pasha, the Turkish Governor of Cyprus, becomes the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and serves until 1750. September 13 – The Netherlands city of Bergen op Zoom falls to the Army of France after a 70 day siege during the War of the Austrian Succession.Henry L. Fulton, Dr. John Moore, 1729–1802: A Life in Medicine, Travel, and Revolution (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014) p76 September 21 – A hurricane in the Caribbean Sea sinks 11 British shipsis this the same St Kitts hurricane in October? November 2022, most of them off the coast of Saint Kitts. October–December October 21 – King George II transfers Thomas Herring, Archbishop of York, to become the new Archbishop of Canterbury, three days after the death of John Potter October 24 – A Caribbean Sea hurricane sweeps across Saint Kitts, sinking 12 British freighters and one from France.Lloyd's List No. 1259, December 18, 1747 October 25 – War of the Austrian Succession – Second battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy again defeats a French fleet. November 9 – Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform.The Multiple Identities of Early Modern Dutch Fishwives Van den Heuvel Danielle Signs 37 3 Spring 2012 587–594 University of Chicago Press 10.1086/662705 ... in 1747 fishwives organized a large political demonstration in Amsterdam, and in 1748 the Amsterdam fish hawker Marretje Arents was one of the principal initiators of a tax riot in the city. 10.1086/662705 145342581 November 17–19 – The Knowles Riot breaks out in Boston, Massachusetts, protesting impressment into the British Royal Navy. November 22 – End of Second Stadtholderless period: Prince William IV of Orange becomes stadtholder of all the United Provinces. December 7 – Benjamin Franklin forms the Pennsylvania Associators, the first militia in the colony of Pennsylvania, which had no standing militia because of its foundation by pacifistic Quakers.T"Associators", by Paul G. Pierpaoli, Jr., in American Revolution: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection (ABC-CLIO, 2018) p85 December 13 – The ordeal of the Maryland freighter sloop Endeavour begins when the ship departs Annapolis for the West Indies and encounters a hurricane. With its masts and rigging torn away, the ship drifts for six months before finally ending up at the island of Tiree off the coast of ScotlandRosemary F. Williams, Maritime Annapolis: A History of Watermen, Sails & Midshipmen (Arcadia Publishing, 2009) December 27 – The Parliament of Great Britain amends its Naturalisation Act 1740 to extend recognition to all non-Anglican Protestant denominations in its colonies.George W. Forell, ed., Nine Public Lectures on Important Subjects in Religion by Nicholaus Ludwig Count von Zinzendorf (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1998) p xxix Date unknown James Lind's experiment begins to prove that citrus fruits prevent scurvy. War of the Austrian Succession: Spanish troops invade and occupy the coastal towns of Beaufort and Brunswick in the Royal Colony of North Carolina, during what becomes known as the Spanish Alarm. They are later driven out by the local militia. Samuel Johnson begins work on A Dictionary of the English Language in London. Births January 10 – Abraham-Louis Breguet, Swiss horologist, inventor (d. 1823) January 15 – John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld https://books.google.com/books?id=FIqa-7dx_N0C&pg=PR43 1 January 1994 University of Georgia Press 978-0-8203-1528-7 43 January 19 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (d. 1826) February 21 – Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (d. 1795) February 28 – Justin Morgan, American horse breeder and composer (d. 1798) thumb|right|110px|Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor May 5 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)Frank Moore Colby Talcott Williams The New International Encyclopaedia https://books.google.com/books?id=Fr8rAQAAMAAJ 1930 Dodd, Mead 788 May 7 – Judith van Dorth, Dutch Orangist (d. 1799) June 23 – Michele Troja, Italian physician (d. 1827) July 2 – Rose Bertin, French fashion designer (d. 1813) July 6 – John Paul Jones, American naval captain (d. 1792)John Paul Jones Life of Rear-Admiral John Paul Jones... https://books.google.com/books?id=El0SAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11 1845 Walker & Gillis 11– September 9 – Thomas Coke, first American Methodist Bishop (d. 1814) October 8 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807) September 12 – Caleb Brewster, Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (d. 1827) December 12 – Anna Seward, English writer (d. 1809)Paula R. Feldman British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology https://books.google.com/books?id=Cg6Jn410aCIC&pg=PA647 19 January 2001 JHU Press 978-0-8018-6640-1 647 December 31 – Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (d. 1794) date unknown François Tourte, French musical instrument maker (d. 1835) Francis Salvador, American patriot (d. 1776) Anne Pépin, Senegalese Signara (d. 1837) Grigory Shelikhov, Russian merchant (d. 1795) Deaths January 2 – Lord George Graham, Royal Navy officer and MP (b. 1715) January 16 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)German Baroque Writers, 1661-1730 Gale Research 1996 62 January 26 – Willem van Mieris, Dutch painter (b. 1662) March 2 – Margravine Sophie Charlotte of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, German noble (b. 1713) March 14 – Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, German aristocrat and general (b. 1661) March 16 – Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine the Great (b. 1690) March 23 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675) April 2 – Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (b. 1684) April 3 – Francesco Solimena, Italian painter (b. 1657) April 7 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1676) April 9 – Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, Scottish clan chief (b. c. 1667) April 14 – Jean-Frédéric Osterwald, Swiss Protestant pastor (b. 1663) May 9 – John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, Scottish soldier and diplomat (b. 1673) May 28 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (b. 1715)Peter Martin Fine Vauvenargues and La Rochefoucauld https://books.google.com/books?id=5327AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 1974 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-0588-6 1 May 31 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (b. 1686) June 8 – Alan Brodrick, 2nd Viscount Midleton, English cricketer (b. 1702) June 17 – Avdotya Chernysheva, Russian noble, lady in waiting (b. 1693) thumb|right|110px|Nader Shah June 19 Nader Shah, Persian leader (b. 1688) Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669) July 9 – Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (b. 1670)Frajese, Carlo 1970 http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-bononcini_%28Dizionario_Biografico%29/ Bononcini, Giovanni Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Vol. 12 2 October 2015 it. October 7 – Giulia Lama, Italian painter (b. 1681)Gaze Delia Concise Dictionary of Women Artists 2001 Taylor & Francis 978-1-57958-335-4 438 https://books.google.com/books?id=V4h7A0XIN14C&pg=PA438 en October 9 – David Brainerd, American missionary (b. 1718) October 10 – John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. c. 1674) October 4 – Amaro Pargo, Spanish corsair (b. 1678) November 17 – Alain-René Lesage, French writer (b. 1668)Charles F. Partington The British Cyclopedia of Biography https://books.google.com/books?id=eLkTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA188 1838 188 December 2 – Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (b. 1695) See also List of 1747 Holy Roman Empire incumbents References External links