• Events from the year 1743 in Great Britain. Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (Whig) (until 2 July); Henry...
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  • political alliance formed between Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia, signed on 13 September 1743, during the War of the Austrian Succession...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1743. 1743 (MDCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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  • Events from the year 1743 in Scotland. Secretary of State for Scotland: The Marquess of Tweeddale Lord Advocate – Robert Craigie Solicitor General for...
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  • Events from the year 1743 in Wales. Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire...
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    The Kingdom of Great Britain, officially known as Great Britain, was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800. The state was created...
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    Wolves were once present in Great Britain. Early writing from Roman and later Saxon chronicles indicate that wolves appear to have been extraordinarily...
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    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a royal title normally granted to sons and grandsons of reigning and past British monarchs, together...
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    Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington (category Earls in the Peerage of Great Britain)
    July 1743) was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death in 1743. He sat in the English and British House...
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    of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and...
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    Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1742 to 1743, during the reign of George II. He had already been created Baron Wilmington in 1728 and was made Viscount...
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    20 November 1737) was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Electress of Hanover from 11 June 1727 until her death in 1737 as the wife of King George...
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    session of the 9th Parliament of Great Britain, which met from 1 December 1743 until 12 May 1744. Recruiting Act 1743 (17 Geo. 2. c. 15) 6 Geo. 2. c. 10...
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    Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal (category Dukes in the Peerage of Great Britain)
    Munster (25 December 1667 – 10 May 1743) was a longtime mistress to King George I of Great Britain. She was born at Emden in the Duchy of Magdeburg. She was...
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    The Great Comet of 1744, whose official designation is C/1743 X1, and which is also known as Comet de Chéseaux or Comet Klinkenberg-Chéseaux, was a spectacular...
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    Louise of Great Britain (originally Louisa; 18 December [O.S. 7 December] 1724 – 19 December 1751) was Queen of Denmark and Norway from 1746 until her...
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    August; 30 October / 9 November 1683 – 25 October 1760) was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) and a prince-elector...
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    Louis; German: Georg Ludwig; 28 May 1660 – 11 June 1727) was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Electorate of Hanover...
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    article lists successive British governments, also referred to as ministries, from the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707, continuing through...
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    William I, Elector of Hesse (category 1743 births)
    1743 – 27 February 1821) was the eldest surviving son of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) and Princess Mary of Great Britain...
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  • Iremonger and published in 1964 under the title An Irish Navvy: The Diary of an Exile. The Irish language scene in Great Britain is equally important due...
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    Mary of Great Britain (5 March 1723 – 14 January 1772) was the second-youngest daughter of George II of Great Britain and his wife, Caroline of Ansbach...
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    The island of Great Britain, along with the rest of the archipelago known as the British Isles, has a largely temperate climate. It contains a relatively...
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  • Events from the year 1741 in Great Britain. Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Robert Walpole (Whig) 13 February – Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister...
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    The First Great Awakening, sometimes Great Awakening or the Evangelical Revival, was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen...
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    United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was William Pitt the Younger at its creation on 1 January 1801. The first to use the title in an official act...
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    Bold The Treason Act 1743 (17 Geo. 2. c. 39) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which made it high treason to correspond with any of the sons...
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    Pragmatic Army (category 1743 establishments in Great Britain)
    It was formed in 1743 by George II, who was both King of Great Britain and Elector of Hanover, and consisted of a mixture of British, Hanoverian, and...
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    through the ranks to Colonel in 1743. Known as a rake in his youth, Gardiner had a religious experience in 1719 and became devout. In 1726, he married Frances...
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    Battle of La Guaira (category Naval battles of the War of the Austrian Succession involving Great Britain)
    The Battle of La Guaira or La Guayra, took place on 2 March 1743 in the Caribbean, off the coast of La Guaira, present day Venezuela. La Guaira was a...
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