Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  – 1740s –  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1741 1742 1743 – 1744 – 1745 1746 1747

1744 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – Great Britain –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

Year 1744 (MDCCXLIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1744 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 1.4 Ongoing events 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1744

[edit] January–June

• January 24 – The Dagohoy Rebellion begins with the killing of Father Giuseppe Lamberti.
• February 22–February 23 – Battle of Toulon: The British fleet is defeated by a Franco-Spanish fleet.
• March 15 – France declares war on Great Britain.
• April 20 – Battle of Villafranca: A joint French and Spanish force defeats Britain and Sardinia.
• June 28 – Catherine the Great is received into the Russian Orthodox Church.

[edit] July–December

• July 19 – Battle of Casteldelfino: France defeats the Kingdom of Sardinia.
• September 30 – Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo: France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia.

[edit] Undated

• 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.

[edit] Ongoing events

• War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748).

[edit] Births

1744 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1744 MDCCXLIV
Ab urbe condita	2497
Armenian calendar	1193 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-100 – -99
Berber calendar	2694
Buddhist calendar	2288
Burmese calendar	1106
Byzantine calendar	7252 – 7253
Chinese calendar	癸亥年十一月十七日 (4380/4440-11-17) — to — 甲子年十一月廿八日 (4381/4441-11-28)
Coptic calendar	1460 – 1461
Ethiopian calendar	1736 – 1737
Hebrew calendar	5504 – 5505
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1799 – 1800
- Shaka Samvat	1666 – 1667
- Kali Yuga	4845 – 4846
Holocene calendar	11744
Iranian calendar	1122 – 1123
Islamic calendar	1156 – 1157
Japanese calendar	Kanpō 4Enkyō 1 (延享元年)
Korean calendar	4077
Thai solar calendar	2287
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• January 10 – Thomas Mifflin, fifth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation (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)

[edit] 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
• 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 of England (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)