This article is about the year 1744.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
Decades: | 1710s 1720s 1730s – 1740s – 1750s 1760s 1770s |
Years: | 1741 1742 1743 – 1744 – 1745 1746 1747 |
1744 by topic: | |
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Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science | |
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Canada – Great Britain – | |
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Colonial governors – State leaders | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1744 MDCCXLIV |
Ab urbe condita | 2497 |
Armenian calendar | 1193 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԳ |
Assyrian calendar | 6494 |
Bengali calendar | 1151 |
Berber calendar | 2694 |
British Regnal year | 17 Geo. 2 – 18 Geo. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 2288 |
Burmese calendar | 1106 |
Byzantine calendar | 7252–7253 |
Chinese calendar | 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4440 or 4380 — to — 甲子年 (Wood Rat) 4441 or 4381 |
Coptic calendar | 1460–1461 |
Discordian calendar | 2910 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1736–1737 |
Hebrew calendar | 5504–5505 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1800–1801 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1666–1667 |
- Kali Yuga | 4845–4846 |
Holocene calendar | 11744 |
Igbo calendar | 744–745 |
Iranian calendar | 1122–1123 |
Islamic calendar | 1156–1157 |
Japanese calendar | Kanpō 4 / Enkyō 1 (延享元年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4077 |
Minguo calendar | 168 before ROC 民前168年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2286–2287 |
Year 1744 (MDCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 24 – The Dagohoy Rebellion in the Philippines begins with the killing of Father Giuseppe Lamberti.
- February – Violent storms frustrated planned French Invasion of Britain.
- February 22–23 – Battle of Toulon: The British fleet is defeated by a Franco-Spanish fleet.
- March 1 (approximately) – The Great Comet of 1744, one of the brightest ever seen, reaches perihelion
- March 15 – France declares war on Great Britain.
- April – The Female Spectator (a monthly) is founded by Eliza Haywood in England, the first periodical written for women by a woman.
- April 20 – Battle of Villafranca (1744): A joint French and Spanish force defeats Britain and Sardinia.
- June 28 – Catherine the Great is received into the Russian Orthodox Church.
July–December
- July 19 – Battle of Casteldelfino: France defeats the Kingdom of Sardinia.
- July 29 – Nader Shah lays siege to the Ottoman citadel of Kars.
- August 12 – Battle of Velletri in the Kingdom of Naples: Spanish-Neapolitan forces defeat those of the Archduchy of Austria.
- September 30 – Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo: France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia.
Date unknown
- The third French and Indian War, known as King George's War, breaks out at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
- The First Saudi State is founded by Mohammed Ibn Saud.
- Prague is occupied by Prussian armies.
- Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, sequel to Tommy Thumb's Song Book, containing the oldest version of many well-known and popular rhymes, is published in London.
Births
- January 10 – Thomas Mifflin, first Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1800)
- February 6 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
- May 19 – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of Great Britain (d. 1818)
- May 21 – Samuel Ireland, British author and engraver (d. 1800)
- May 31 – Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Anglo-Irish, politician writer and inventor (d. 1817)
- July 17 – Elbridge Gerry, American politician (d. 1814)
- July 20 – Joshua Clayton, American politician (d. 1798)
- August 1 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist (d. 1829)
- August 25 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803)
- September 25 – King Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797)
- November 11 – Abigail Adams, wife of American President John Adams (d. 1818)
Deaths
- January 23 – Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
- January 26 – Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
- February 11 – Hedvig Taube, mistress to King Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1714)
- February 14 – John Hadley, English mathematician (b. 1682)
- March 3 – Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist (b. 1674)
- April 25 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer (b. 1701)
- May 30 – Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
- June 29 – André Campra, French composer (b. 1660)
- July – Mihai Racoviţă, Prince of Moldavia and Prince of Wallachia
- August 9 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
- August 13 – John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)
- August 26 – William Byrd II, prominent planter from Virginia (b. 1674)
- September 28 – Princess Thérèse of France, estranged daughter of Louis XV of France (b.1736)
- October 18 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of Anne, Queen of Great Britain (b. 1660)
- October 31 – Leonardo Leo, Italian composer (b. 1694)
- December 8 – Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, French mistress of King Louis XV (b. 1717)