1743

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February 14 – Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
February 21 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson premieres in London .
March 2 – Battle of La Guaira: a British expeditionary fleet under Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish.
May 10 – In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term (multiple times over 43 years) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil (for the next 10 years) and returns to France.
June 16 – Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria: King George II of Great Britain leads his own troops, the last British king to do so.

August 7 – Russia and Sweden sign the Treaty of Åbo.
September 11 – Natalia Lopukhina is flogged in front of the Twelve Collegia building in Saint Petersburg.
September 13 – The Treaty of Worms is signed between Great Britain, Austria, and Sardinia.
November 5 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

January 18 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu. (d. 1803)
January 25 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819)
February 13 – Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (d. 1820)
February 19 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805)
February 23 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
March 4 – Johann David Wyss, Swiss author (d. 1818)
March 14 – Hannah Cowley, English dramatist and poet (d. 1809)
April 1 – Richard Butler (general) American soldier (d. 1793)
April 13 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States (d. 1826)
May 17 – Seth Warner American revolutionary hero (d. 1784)
May 20 – Toussaint Louverture, Haitian rebel (d. 1803)
May 24 – Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutioner, doctor, scientist (d. 1793)
June 3 – José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa, Spanish viceroy of Peru (d. 1821)
August 26 – Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist (d. 1794)
September 11 – Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter (d. 1809)
September 17 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (d. 1794)
December 23 – Ippolit Bogdanovich, Russian poet (d. 1803)
date unknown – Károly Hadaly, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1834)