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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1743
Events from the year
1743 in
Great Britain .
George II at the
Battle of Dettingen , by
John Wootton
Henry Pelham
21 February – premiere in
London of
George Frideric Handel 's
oratorio ,
Samson .
2 March –
War of Jenkins' Ear :
Battle of La Guaira – A British expeditionary fleet under
Sir Charles Knowles is defeated by the Spanish off the South American coast.
13 April –
British East India Company ship Princess Louisa is wrecked off the coast of
Maio Island in the Cape Verde Islands, killing 49 of her 179 crew.
16 June (27 June
New Style ) –
War of the Austrian Succession : The
Battle of Dettingen is fought in
Bavaria .
King George II leads the troops of Britain and Brunswick to victory over the
French – the last time a reigning British monarch participates in a battle. The Prime Minister,
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington , is also present, observing from a carriage.
George Frideric Handel writes the oratorio
Dettingen Te Deum in celebration of the King's victory.
[3]
13 July – all 276 people on board the Dutch East India Company ship
Hollandia drown after the ship strikes a rock off
Annet, Isles of Scilly .
20 July –
Lord Anson captures the Philippine
galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga and its treasure of 1,313,843
Spanish dollars at
Manila .
[4]
27 August –
Henry Pelham becomes
Prime Minister , following the death of Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, on 2 July.
[5]
[6]
13 September –
Treaty of Worms signed between Great Britain, the
Holy Roman Emperor and the
Kingdom of Sardinia .
25 October –
France and
Spain form the
Alliance of Fontainebleau with the aim of recapturing
Gibraltar from Britain.
[3]
11 December –
Princess Louise , the King's daughter, marries
Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark and Norway .
[7]
4 April –
Daniel Neal , English historian (born 1678)
23 May –
Thomas Archer , baroque architect (born 1668)
2 July –
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington ,
Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1674)
[11]
1 August –
Richard Savage , writer (born c. 1697)
5 August –
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey , English statesman and writer (born 1696)
23 August –
Mary Edwards , heiress (born 1705)
4 October –
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll , Scottish soldier (born 1678)
5 October –
Henry Carey , poet, dramatist and songwriter, suicide (born 1687)
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ISBN
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ISBN
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ISBN
0786415584 .
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ISBN
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