Events 1747

1 events

1.1 january–june
1.2 july–december
1.3 date unknown

events
january–june

january 31 – first venereal diseases clinic opens @ london lock hospital.
february 11 – king george s war: combined french , indian force, commanded captain nicolas antoine ii coulon de villiers, attacks , defeats british troops @ grand-pré, nova scotia.
april 9 – scottish jacobite lord lovat beheaded axe on tower hill, london, high treason (the last man executed in way in britain).
may 14 – war of austrian succession – first battle of cape finisterre: british navy defeats french fleet.
june 9 – emperor momozono ascends throne of japan, succeeding emperor sakuramachi.
june 24–october 14 – english ships dobbs galley , california, under captains william moore , francis smith, explore hudson bay, discovering there no northwest passage route.

july–december

october: ahmad shah durrani crowned king of afghanistan.



july 2 – war of austrian succession – battle of lauffeld: france defeats combined armies of hanover, great britain , netherlands.
october

thomas herring appointed archbishop of canterbury.
following capture of kandahar, ahmad shah durrani chosen loya jirga first leader of durrani empire, predecessor of afghanistan.


october 25 – war of austrian succession – second battle of cape finisterre: british navy again defeats french fleet.
november 9 – rioters in amsterdam demand governmental reform.
november 17–19 – knowles riot breaks out in boston, massachusetts, protesting impressment british royal navy, .
november 22 – prince william iv of orange becomes stadtholder of united provinces.

date unknown

james lind s experiment begins prove citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
war of austrian succession: spanish troops invade , occupy coastal towns of beaufort , brunswick in royal colony of north carolina, during becomes known spanish alarm. later driven out local militia.
samuel johnson begins work on dictionary of english language in london.




^ van den heuvel, danielle (spring 2012). multiple identities of modern dutch fishwives . signs. university of chicago press. 37 (3): 587–594. doi:10.1086/662705. jstor 10.1086/662705. ... in 1747 fishwives organized large political demonstration in amsterdam, , in 1748 amsterdam fish hawker marretje arents 1 of principal initiators of tax riot in city.