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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;...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 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....

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

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 of the French Navy launched in 1739. Captured on 14 October 1747, she was taken into Royal Navy service as the third rate HMS Terrible. Terrible...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

second shah of Afsharid Iran, ruling from 1747 to 1748. He was the nephew and successor of Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747), the founder of the Afsharid dynasty...

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...

(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...

Events from the year 1747 in Great Britain. Monarch – George II Prime Minister – Henry Pelham (Whig) 31 January – the first venereal diseases clinic opens...

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...

Rear-Admiral Engelbertus Lucas Sr. (5 March 1747 – 21 June 1797) was a Dutch naval officer. On 17 August 1796 during the War of the First Coalition, he...

Events from the year 1747 in Wales. Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire...

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...

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...

John Wynne (c. 1690 – 9 February 1747) was an Irish politician. He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland from 1727 to 1747 as a Member of Parliament for...

Afshar (Persian: نادرشاه افشار; 6 August 1698 or 22 October 1688 – 20 June 1747) was the founder of the Afsharid dynasty of Iran and one of the most powerful...