George II during the Battle of Dettingen
In the year 1743, long-time governor of French Louisiana in New France is replaced by the Canadian-born Pierre de Rigaud (May 10), George II of Great Britain becomes the last British king to lead his own troops, in the Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria (Jun 27), France and the Allies of Britain conclude a treaty to provide care for each other’s wounded (Jul 28), Sweden and Russia sign the Treaty of Turku, Russia thereby acquiring parts of Eastern Finland (Aug 7), the last wolf in Scotland is shot - and all these fine people were born:
1743-0118 Louis Claude de Saint-Martin* philosopher/inspiration of Martinism - Amboise, France (1803/60)
1743-0121 John Fitch* engineer/clockmaker/inventor - Windsor, Connecticut (1798/55)
1743-0125 Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi* philosopher/socialite - Düsseldorf, Electorate of the Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (1819/76)
1743-0216 Magnus Jacob Alopaeus* bishop/statesman - Leppävirta, Sweden-Finland (1818/75)
1743-0224 Joseph Banks* botanist/took part in James Cook’s first great voyage/made Kew Gardens the world’s leading botanical garden - London, England (1820/77)
1743-0228 René Just Haüy* priest/mineralogist - Saint-Just-en-Chaussée, France (1822/79)
1743-03xx Joseph Brant* (b Thayendanegea) Mohawk leader - Ohio Country somewhere along the Cuyahoga River (1807/64)
1743-0314 Hannah Cowley* (b Parkhouse) dramatist/poet - Tiverton, Devon, England (1809/65)
1743-0413 Thomas Jefferson* politician/3usp/ author of the Declaration of American Independence – Shadwell, Virginia, British America (1826/83)
1743-0517 Seth Warner* captain in the Green Mountain Boys/ Revolutionary War officer - Roxbury, Connecticut (1784/41)
1743-0524 Jean-Paul Marat* French physician/journalist/political figure - Boudry, The Republic and Canton of Neuchâtel, Prussia (1793/50)
1743-0602 Giuseppe Balsamo* a.k.a Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian adventurer/self-styled magician/occultist - Palermo, Kingdom of Sicily (1795/52)
1743-0604 Lucia Galeazzi Galvani* (b Galeazzi) Italian scientist - Bologna (1788/45)
1743-0614 Elisabeth Christina von Linné* botanist/daughter of Carl von Linné - Sweden (1782/38)
1743-0826 Antoine Lavoisier* nobleman/chemist – Paris, France (1794/50)
1743-0911 Nicolai Abildgaard* painter/sculptor/architect - Copenhagen, Denmark (1809/65)
1743-1001 Gabriel Tidgren* linguist/historian - Ulricehamn, Sweden (1788/45)
1743-1020 François Chopart* surgeon - Paris, France (1795/51)
1743-1111 Carl Peter Thunberg* botanist/apostle of Carl Linnaeus - Jönköping, Sweden (1828/84)
1743-1201 Martin Heinrich Klaproth* chemist - Wernigerode, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire (1817/73)
Updated 6.8.2022-1
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