* 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist ( d. 1829 )

* 1682 – John Hadley, English mathematician and inventor of the octant ( d. 1744 )

* 1744 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer ( d. 1803 )

* 1744 – Alexandrine Le Normant d ' Étiolles, French daughter of Madame de Pompadour ( d. 1754 )

Anders Celsius ( 27 November 1701 – 25 April 1744 ) was a Swedish astronomer.

Scholars of ballads are often divided into two camps, the ‘ communalists ’ who, following the line established by the German scholar Johann Gottfried Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) and the Brothers Grimm, argue that ballads arose by a combined communal effort and did not have a single author, and ‘ individualists ’, following the thinking of English collector Cecil Sharp, who assert that there was a single original author.

* 1679 – Domenico Sarro, Italian composer ( d. 1744 )

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 – 1829 )

Elbridge Thomas Gerry (; July 17, 1744 – November 23, 1814 ) was an American statesman and diplomat.

* 1744 – John Theophilus Desaguliers, French philosopher ( b. 1683 )

* 1671 – Charles-Hubert Gervais, French composer ( d. 1744 )

* 1744 – Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker ( d. 1812 )

* 1744 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist and surgeon ( d. 1795 )

* 1744 – John Jeffries, Physician, Surgeon, Balloonist ( d. 1819 )

The word was created in reaction to a redrawing of Massachusetts state senate election districts under the then-governor Elbridge Gerry ( pronounced ; 1744 – 1814 ).

Johann Gottfried von Herder ( 1744 – 1803 ) broke new ground in philosophy and poetry, as a leader of the Sturm und Drang movement of proto-Romanticism.

# 1744 – 1746 Benjamin Pitt

* 1744 – The Treaty of Lancaster, in which the Iroquois ceded lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the British colonies, is signed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

* 1795 – Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist ( b. 1744 )

* 1673 – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English noble ( d. 1744 )

* 1744 – Heinrich Christian Boie, German author ( d. 1806 )

* John Brown of Pittsfield ( 1744 – 1780 ), American Revolutionary War officer

* John Walker ( Virginia politician ) ( 1744 – 1809 ), U. S. Senator, public official, and soldier

* William Mayo ( civil engineer ) ( c. 1685 – 1744 ), the civil engineer who laid out the city of Richmond, Virginia

* King Georges War ( 1744 – 1748 ),

With 1744 began the Second Silesian War.

In North America the conflict was known in the British colonies as King George's War, and did not begin until after formal war declarations of France and Britain reached the colonies in May 1744.

During King George's War ( 1744 to 1748 ), an army of New Englanders led by William Pepperrell mounted an expedition of 90 vessels and 4, 000 men against Louisbourg in 1745.

In June 1744, the king left Versailles for the front in order to take personal command of his armies fighting in the War of the Austrian Succession.

* Alexander Mebane, Jr. ( 1744 – 1795 ), Revolutionary War militia general and U. S. Congressman

King George's War ( 1744 – 1748 ) is the name given to the operations in North America that formed part of the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ).

But disputes about the grants, combined with the outbreak in 1744 of the French and Indian War, made it untenable to remain in Rindge, so early settlers abandoned it.

France meanwhile declared King George's War against Britain in 1744.

His father, a merchant and farmer known as Major Timothy Dwight, was born May 27, 1726, graduated from Yale in 1744, served in the American Revolutionary War, and died June 10, 1777.

Peace lasted in Canada until 1744, when news of the outbreak of the War of the Austrian Succession ( King George's War in North America ) reached Fort Louisbourg.

This became a source of conflict with the British in India with the entry of Britain into the War of the Austrian Succession in 1744.

These wars were the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1744 – 1748 ), the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 1763 ), the War of the American Revolution ( 1778 – 1783 ), the French Revolutionary Wars ( 1793 – 1802 ) and the Napoleonic Wars ( 1803 – 1815 ).

In 1744, the War of the Austrian Succession spread to colonial America, where it was known as King George's War.

Hawke did not see action until the Battle of Toulon in 1744 during the War of the Austrian Succession.

Serving with the French armies in the War of the Austrian Succession, he distinguished himself in the campaigns of 1742, 1743 and 1744, and at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745.

* 1744 created Lieutenant General ( due to partaking in the War of the Austrian Succession )

:* King George's War ( 1744 – 1748 )