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...

article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1747. March 31 – Laurence Sterne preaches the Good Friday sermon at St Helen Stonegate;...

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...

The Jacobite lords Kilmarnock, Balmerino and Lovat were beheaded in April 1747, but public opinion was against further trials and the remaining prisoners...

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...

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...

The year 1747 in science and technology involved some significant events. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770), with the help of the artist Jan Wandelaar...

Walter Lloyd (c. 1678–1747), of Peterwell, Cardiganshire, was a British lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1734 to 1742. Lloyd...

The Orangist revolution of 1747 brought William IV, Prince of Orange to the Stadtholder office, finishing the Second Stadtholderless Period. After the...

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....

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...

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...

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 the line Monarque of the French Navy launched in March 1747. Captured on 14 October 1747, she was taken into Royal Navy service as the third rate HMS...

(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...

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)...

Colonel John Montgomery (7 September 1747-April 1797) was an Irish soldier and M.P. His father was General Alexander Montgomery (died 1785) of Ballyleck...

border fortress of Bergen op Zoom on the border of Brabant and Zeeland in 1747. The fortress was defended by Dutch, Austrians, British, Hanoverians and...

Anhalt-Dornburg (1704–1747), of Anhalt-Zerbst (1742–1747) Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Regent (1747–1752) Frederick August, Prince (1747–1793) divided...

Edward Foley (1676 – 4 April 1747) was an English Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1701 and 1741. Foley was...

Events from the year 1747 in Sweden Monarch – Frederick I May - Alliance between Sweden and France; Sweden is to receive subsidies. May - Defense alliance...

1747 Wright, provisional designation 1947 NH, is a stony asteroid and a sizable Mars-crosser, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered...

Events from the year 1747 in Russia Monarch – Elizabeth Engels, Saratov Oblast 25 March [O.S. 14 March] – Alexander Bezborodko, (d. 1799) Arkady Morkov...

Leinster (6 October 1731 – 27 March 1814), known before 1747 as Lady Emily Lennox, from 1747 to 1761 as The Countess of Kildare and from 1761 to 1766...

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...

Events from the year 1747 in the Dutch Republic 2 July – The Battle of Lauffeld, at which the Dutch and her allies were defeated by the French under Maurice...

Events from the year 1747 in Austria Monarch – Maria Theresa May 14 – War of the Austrian Succession – First battle of Cape Finisterre: British victory...

Events from the year 1747 in Denmark. Monarch – Frederick V Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg 4 September – The coronation of Frederick...

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...

James Hare (1747–1804) was an English politician, diplomat and wit. He was the son of Joseph Hare, an apothecary of Wells, Somerset. He was educated at...