* 1715 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer ( d. 1747 )

Ahmad Shah Durrani ( c. 1722 – 1773 ) ( Pashto /), also known as Ahmad Shāh Abdālī ( Pashto / Persian: احمد شاه ابدالي ) and born as Ahmad < u > Kh </ u > ān, was the founder of the Durrani Empire ( Afghan Empire ) in 1747 and is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern state of Afghanistan .</ poem >

* 1666 – Jean-Féry Rebel, French composer and violinist ( d. 1747 )

* 1747 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal ( b. 1676 )

** Volume 2: Printer and Publisher, 1730 – 1747 ( 2005 ) 664pp ; excerpt and text search

An Irish translation of the revised prayer book of 1662 was effected by John Richardson ( 1664 – 1747 ) and published in 1712.

* 1747 – Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar ( b. 1695 )

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

* 1747 – John Thomas Duckworth, Royal Navy admiral ( d. 1817 )

Francis was a son of the future Emperor Leopold II ( 1747 – 1792 ) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain ( 1745 – 1792 ), daughter of Charles III of Spain.

Michel Maittaire ( 1667 – 1747 ) and Georg Wolfgang Panzer ( 1729 – 1805 ) arranged printed material chronologically in annals format, and in the first half of the nineteenth century, Ludwig Hain published, Repertorium bibliographicum — a checklist of incunabula arranged alphabetically by author: " Hain numbers " are still a reference point.

* 1747 – John Aikin, English doctor and writer ( d. 1822 )

* 1747 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.

* 1673 – Antonio de Literes, Spanish composer ( d. 1747 )

* 1676 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal ( d. 1747 )

* 1747 – John Paul Jones, American navy commander ( d. 1792 )

* 1747 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet ( b. 1680 )

* 1670 – Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Italian composer ( d. 1747 )

Johann Elert Bode ( 19 January 1747 – 23 November 1826 ) was a German astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius-Bode law.

* John Walker ( clerical historian ) ( 1674 – 1747 ), English clergyman and ecclesiastical historian

* 1743 – 1747: Abdallah II ( 5 règne )

* 1747 – War of the Austrian Succession: A British fleet under Admiral George Anson defeats the French at the First Battle of Cape Finisterre.

In 1747, a group of Virginian speculators formed the Ohio Company, with the backing of the British crown, to start English settlement and trade in the Ohio Country west of the Appalachian Mountains.

In June 1747, concerned about the incursion and expanding influence of British traders such as George Croghan in the Ohio Country, Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, the Governor-General of New France, ordered Pierre-Joseph Céloron to lead a military expedition through the area.

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Early in 1747 a second expedition laid siege to Fort St David but withdrew on the arrival of a British naval squadron in March.

From 1747 until the close of the war in October 1748 the naval policy of the British government, without reaching a high level, was more energetic and coherent.

The War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), which pitted the French and Prussians against the Austrians, British, and Dutch, culminated in a series of major French victories: the Battle of Fontenoy ( 1745 ), the Battle of Rocoux ( 1746 ), and the Battle of Lauffeld ( 1747 ).

He then became an aide to the Duke of Cumberland, the commander of the British forces, and saw further action at the Battle of Lauffeld in July 1747.

In 1747 the British captured a few of these French ships during the War of Austrian Succession.

The town of Richmond was originally part of the territory of Westerly, Rhode Island ( 1669 to 1747 ), which remained in dispute for several years between the British colonies of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts.

* John Billingsley ( agriculturist ) ( 1747 – 1811 ), British agriculturist

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* Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames ( 1747 ), Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, United States

Despite British troops having been engaged on the European Continent since 1742, it was not until 1747 that Carleton and his regiment were despatched to Flanders.

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He then sent an expedition against Fort St David ( 1747 ), which was defeated on its march by the Nawab of Arcot, ally of the British.

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Augustus Henry FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, KG, PC ( 28 September 1735 – 14 March 1811 ), styled Earl of Euston between 1747 and 1757, was a British Whig statesman of the Georgian era.

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