1747
Events
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January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
- October 1 – On the 7th day of Shawwal, 1160 A.H., Pashtun chieftains in Kandahar, meeting in a special council (a loya jirga) vote to make Ahmad Shah Durrani their leader in Afghanistan and beginning the Durrani Empire.
- 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.
- 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.
- November 17âÂÂ19 – 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.
- 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 Scotland
- December 27 – The Parliament of Great Britain amends its Naturalisation Act 1740 to extend recognition to all non-Anglican Protestant denominations in its colonies.
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Births
- May 5 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
- 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)
- September 9 – Thomas Coke, first American Methodist Bishop (d. 1814)
- October 8 РJean-Fran̤ois 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)
- 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)
- 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 II of Russia (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 РJean-Fr̩d̩ric 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)
- 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)
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