Today in History for Year 1744

Months in Year 1744: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 11 of 11

Feb 8th - French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon
Feb 9th - Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
Feb 22nd - Battle at Toulon: English-French & Spanish fleet
Mar 15th - French King Louis XV declares war on England
May 17th - French army takes Austrian Netherlands
May 31st - French troops conquer Kortrijk
Jun 6th - France & Prussia sign peace treaty
Sep 30th - France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
Nov 23rd - English premier John Carteret resigns
Nov 25th - Austrian forces pillage & kill Jews of Prague
Dec 31st - James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion (wobble)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 35 of 35

Feb 5th - John Jeffries, colonial physician/meteorologist
Feb 6th - Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon (d. 1795)
Feb 9th - Amos Bull, composer
Feb 21st - Eise J Eisinga, Frisia, built planetarium Franeker
Mar 13th - David Allan, Scottish painter
Apr 18th - Pieter 't Hoen, Dutch journalist/patriot
Apr 22nd - James Sullivan, 7th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1808)
May 3rd - Freidrich Wilhelm Weis, composer
May 4th - Marianne von Martinez, composer
May 18th - Joseph Beer, Bohemia clarinetist/composer (5th clarinet flap)
May 19th - Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1818)
May 31st - Richard Edgeworth, writer, Bath
Jun 4th - Patrick Ferguson, Scots army officer and rifle designer (d. 1780)
Jun 18th - Augustin Holler, composer
Jul 17th - Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering
Jul 19th - Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
Jul 20th - Henri Hamal, composer
Aug 1st - Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine Monnet de Lamarck, Paris, naturalist (Lamarckian evolution), (d. 1829)
Aug 10th - Alexandrine-Jeanne d'Étiolles (nicknamed "Fanfan"), daughter of the courtesan Madame de Pompadour (d. 1754)
French Naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Aug 1st) Aug 11th - Johann Gottlieb Schwencke, composer
Aug 12th - Rowland Hill, preacher
Aug 25th - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet
Sep 15th - Georg Ritschel, composer
Sep 20th - Giacomo Quarenghi, Ital/Russian master builder (Hermitage Theater)
Sep 20th - Thomas Grosvenor, American Revolutionary War hero (d. 1825)
Sep 25th - Frederik Willem II, king of Prussia (1786-97)
Oct 4th - Domenico Corri, composer
Oct 6th - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)
Oct 7th - Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
Oct 27th - Mary Moser, English painter (d. 1819)
Nov 11th - Abigail Smith Adams, 2nd 1st lady (1797-1801)
Nov 26th - Karl Siegmund von Seckendorff, composer
Dec 8th - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer
Dec 19th - Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/West-Friesland
Dec 22nd - Abigail Adams, Weymouth Mass, 2nd first lady (1797-1801)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 19 of 19

Jan 15th - Charles-Hubert Gervais, composer, dies at 72
Jan 23rd - Giambattista Vico, Italian philosopher and historian (b. 1668)
Jan 25th - Domenico Natale Sarro, Italian opera composer, dies at 64
Jan 26th - Ludwig Andreas Graf Khevenhüller, Austrian field marshal (b. 1683)
Feb 15th - Frantisek Antonin Mica, composer, dies at 49
Feb 15th - John Hadley, inventor (sextant), dies
Feb 29th - John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher (b. 1683)
Mar 3rd - Jean Barbeyrac, French jurist
Mar 4th - John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)
Apr 25th - Anders Celsius, Swed astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies at 42
May 30th - Alexander Pope, English poet (Eloisa to Abelard), dies at 56
Jun 14th - Andre Campra, composer, dies at 83
Jul 14th - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28
Aug 9th - James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts (b. 1673)
Aug 13th - John Cruger, Dutch-born Mayor of New York (b. 1678)
Aug 19th - Carlo Arrigoni, composer, dies at 46
Oct 18th - Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, close friend of Queen Anne of Great Britain (b. 1660)
Oct 31st - Leonardo Ortensio Salvatore de Leo, composer, dies at 50
Dec 8th - Marie-Anne de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux, mistress of King Louis XV of France (b. 1717)