* 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway ( d. 1743 )

* 1743 – Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France ( d. 1793 )

* 1667 – Anna Maria Luisa de ' Medici, Italian wife of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine ( d. 1743 )

* 1743 – Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and inventor of the power loom ( d. 1823 )

* 1804 – Toussaint Louverture, Haitian Revolutionary ( b. 1743 )

Chemistry came of age when Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 1794 ) developed the theory of Conservation of mass in 1783 ; and the development of the Atomic Theory by John Dalton around 1800.

Antoine Lavoisier ( 1743 – 94 ) is considered the " People known as the father or mother of something | Father of Modern Chemistry ".

Then in 1743 he further alienated his father by marrying Antoinette Champion ( 1710 – 1796 ), a devout Roman Catholic.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

* 1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist ( d. 1817 )

Notable late-classical deists include Peter Annet ( 1693 – 1769 ), Thomas Chubb ( 1679 – 1747 ), Thomas Morgan (?– 1743 ), and Conyers Middleton ( 1683 – 1750 ).

* 1678 – Daniel Neal, English historian ( d. 1743 )

* 1820 – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic ( b. 1743 )

* 1743 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer ( d. 1805 )

* 1658 – Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre, French writer ( d. 1743 )

The first child of Augustine Washington ( 1694 – 1743 ) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington ( 1708 – 1789 ), George Washington was born on their Pope's Creek Estate near present-day Colonial Beach in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

# 1712 – 1743 Sir Bibye Lake, Sr.

* 1743 – War of the Austrian Succession: Battle of Dettingen: On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle.

* 1743 – André-Hercule de Fleury, French statesman ( b. 1653 )

* 1743 – Sophia Magdalena of Denmark ( d. 1813 )

* 1826 – Thomas Jefferson American politician, 3rd President of the United States ( b. 1743 )

Though the term nihilism was first popularized by the novelist Ivan Turgenev ( 1818 – 1883 ) in his novel Fathers and Sons, </ i > it was first introduced into philosophical discourse by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ( 1743 – 1819 ).

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi ( 1743 – 1819 ), characterized rationalism, and in particular Immanuel Kant's " critical " philosophy in order to carry out a reductio ad absurdum according to which all rationalism ( philosophy as criticism ) reduces to nihilism, and thus it should be avoided and replaced with a return to some type of faith and revelation.

* March 10 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher ( b. 1743 )

* 1743 – 1753 Peter August Friedrich von Holstein-Beck ( 1696 – 1775 )

****** Johann Friedrich Bach II ( 1706 – 1743 )

Karl Friedrich Abt ( 1743, Stuttgart – 20 November 1783, Bremen ) was an early German actor.

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ( 1 November 1743 – 5 November 1807 ) was a German naturalist and entomologist from Petershagen, Minden-Ravensberg.

* Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont ( 1743 – 1812 ), Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

* Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst ( 1743 – 1807 ), German biologist

* 1743: Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, issues an edict whereby the university recently founded in Bayreuth is transferred to Erlangen.

Steinwiesen obtained market privileges in 1743 through Friedrich Karl, bishop to Bamberg and Würzburg.

Construction of the Old Church ( on the property ) was started in 1743 and was designed by Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, a Lutheran minister who had immigrated to the colony in 1742 and who founded many congregations in the area.

Anton Heinrich ( 1679 – 1742 ) and Karl Heinrich ( 1681 – 1749 ) both served as violinists at the Salzburg court, and the latter was promoted to Kapellmeister in 1743.

* January 1-Martin Heinrich Klaproth ( born 1743 ), chemist.

Martin Heinrich Klaproth ( 1 December 1743 – 1 January 1817 ) was a German chemist.

* 1743 – Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German composer ( d. 1813 )

* Die Schlacht bei Dettingen 1743 ( German )

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Johann Joachim Eschenburg ( December 7, 1743 – February 29, 1820 ) was a German critic and literary historian.

His works were also known in western Europe, as he authored writings in Latin: Descriptio Moldaviae ( commissioned by the Academy of Berlin, the member of which he became in 1714 ) and Incrementa atque decrementa aulae othomanicae, which was printed in English in 1734-1735 ( second edition in 1756 ), in French ( 1743 ) and German ( 1745 ); the latter was a major reference work in European science and culture until the 19th century.

In 1743 Christopher Sauer, an early pastor and a printer by trade, printed a Bible in German, the first published in a European language in North America.

Ignacije Szentmartony junior ( born February 17, 1743 ) was educated in theology in Varaždin and Graz, lecturer in Varaždin and Zagreb where he wrote the first Croatian kajkavian grammar in the German language, Einleitung zur kroatischen Sprachlehre für Teutschen.

* David Roentgen ( 1743 – 1807 ), German cabinetmaker, son of Abraham Roentgen

Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ( August 17, 1743 – July 4, 1815 ) was a German geographer and zoologist.

After its annexation by the Kingdom of Prussia from Austria in the First Silesian War, German settlers developed a clothing industry in the village in 1743.

It was named in honour of the German botanist and naturalist Traugott Gerber († 1743 ) who travelled extensively in Russia and was a friend of Carolus Linnaeus.

* Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann ( 1743 – 1815 ), German geographer and zoologist

* " Genaue und umständliche teutsche Kayser-und Reichshistorie aus den bewährtesten Geschichtsschreibern und Urkunden zusammengetragen " in 4 volumes ( 1728 – 1743 ) ( Exact and Comprehensive History of the German Emperor and Empire compiled from the Most Valued Historians and Documents )

Christian Ehregott Weinlig ( September 30, 1743 – March 14, 1813 ) was a German composer and cantor of Dresden's Kreuzkirche.