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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1747. 1747 (MDCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    Events from the year 1747 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische...
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  • designed by Jacques-Luc Coulomb. Fougueux was captured by the Royal Navy in 1747 during the Second Battle of Cape Finisterre. After this, the ship was commissioned...
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1747. March 31 – Laurence Sterne preaches the Good Friday sermon at St Helen Stonegate;...
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  • The 1747 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger...
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    The Orangist revolution of 1747 brought William IV, Prince of Orange to the Stadtholder office, finishing the Second Stadtholderless Period. After the...
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    beheaded in April 1747, but public opinion was against further trials and the remaining prisoners were pardoned under the Act of Indemnity 1747. They included...
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  • Anhalt-Dornburg (1704–1747), of Anhalt-Zerbst (1742–1747) Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Regent (1747–1752) Frederick August, Prince (1747–1793) divided...
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  • … 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745 1746 1747 1748 1749 1750 1751 1752 1753 1754 1755 1756 1757 … Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music...
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    Kentucky Route 1747 (KY 1747) is an 18.424 mile (29.651 km) long north–south state highway in the immediate suburbs of Louisville, Kentucky. The southern...
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    the line of the French Navy launched in October 1744. Captured on 14 May 1747, she was taken into Royal Navy service as the third rate HMS Invincible....
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    Christianity portal John Potter PC (c. 1674 – 10 October 1747) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1737–1747). He was the son of a linen draper at Wakefield, Yorkshire...
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  • The year 1747 in science and technology involved some significant events. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770), with the help of the artist Jan Wandelaar...
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  • The On the Political Affairs of the Karabakh khanate in 1747–1805 was a book written in Russian by Ahmad bey Javanshir about the history of the Qarabagh...
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    Frederick Henry Charles of Prussia (German: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, 30 December 1747 – 26 May 1767) was the second son of Prince Augustus William, the brother...
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    Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (Louis Alexandre Joseph Stanislas; 6 September 1747 – 6 May 1768) was the son and heir of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, great...
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  • Thomas Coombe Jr. (21 October 1747 – 15 August 1822) was an Anglican priest and a poet. Thomas Coombe was born in Philadelphia to Thomas Coombe (1722–1799)...
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    1747 Wright, provisional designation 1947 NH, is a stony asteroid and a sizable Mars-crosser, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered...
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    Ahmad Khan, born into the Abdali tribe. After his accession to power in 1747, he became known as Ahmad Shah. His tribe also changed the name from Abdali...
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  • Regent (1746–1747) Giacomo Begni, Ottavio Fazzini, Captains Regent (1747) Biagio Antonio Martelli, Giovanni Martelli, Captains Regent (1747–1748) Giovanni...
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    Daniel Hiester (June 25, 1747 – March 7, 1804) was an American political and military leader from the Revolutionary War period to the early 19th Century...
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  • Popple, Governor (1738–1744) Francis Jones, Governor (1744–1747) William Popple, Governor (1747–1751) Francis Jones, Governor (1751–1755) William Popple...
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  • Geo. 2. c. 2) The Highways Act 1742 (16 Geo. 2. c. 29) The Highways Act 1747 (21 Geo. 2. c. 28) The Highways Act 1753 (26 Geo. 2. c. 28) The Highways...
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  • Events from the year 1747 in France Monarch – Louis XV 2 July – Battle of Lauffeld 19 July – Battle of Assietta Armand Louis de Gontaut military officer...
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    (Persian: افشاریان) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747) of the Qirqlu clan of the Turkoman Afshar tribe, ruling over the Afsharid...
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    Duncan Forbes 5th of Culloden (10 November 1685 – 10 December 1747) was a Scottish lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721...
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    Events from the year 1747 in Sweden Monarch – Frederick I May - Alliance between Sweden and France; Sweden is to receive subsidies. May - Defense alliance...
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    The First Battle of Cape Finisterre (14 May 1747) was waged during the War of the Austrian Succession. It refers to the attack by 14 British ships of the...
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    hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1747 until his death in 1751. During his whole life he was furthermore ruler of...
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    designed and built by François Coulomb the Younger at Toulon from 1745 to 1747, as a modified version of the same constructor's Terrible built at the same...
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