* 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 )

* November 23 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician ( b. 1747 )

Jean-François Rewbell ( October 8, 1747 – November 23, 1807 ) was a French lawyer, diplomat, and politician of the Revolution.

* Jean-François Rewbell ( 1747 – 1807 ), diplomat and revolutionist

* 1707 – Jean-Baptiste Barrière, French cellist and composer ( d. 1747 )

* 1668 – Alain-René Lesage, French writer ( d. 1747 )

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

* 1827 – François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer ( b. 1747 )

* 1747 – Alain-René Lesage, French writer ( b. 1668 )

* 1747 – British fleet under Admiral Sir Edward Hawke defeats the French at the second battle of Cape Finisterre.

* November 6 – Louis Philip II, Duke of Orléans, French noble and revolutionary leader ( executed ) ( b. 1747 )

* May 8 – Alain-René Lesage, French writer ( d. 1747 )

* August 6 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer ( d. 1747 )

* July 14 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier ( d. 1747 )

The French mathematical physicist Alexis Clairaut assessed it in 1747: " The famous book of mathematical Principles of natural Philosophy marked the epoch of a great revolution in physics.

Soon Genoa revolted from the oppressive rule of the victors, rose and drove out the Austrians ( 5 – 11 December ) as an Allied invasion of Provence stalled, and the French, now commanded by Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, Duc de Belle-Isle, took the offensive ( 1747 ).

Genoa held out against a second Austrian siege and after the plan of campaign had as usual been referred to Paris and Madrid, it was relieved, though a picked corps of the French army under the Chevalier de Belle-Isle ( 1684 – 1747 ), brother of the marshal, was defeated in the attempt ( 10 July ) to storm the entrenched pass of Exilles ( Colle dell ' Assietta ), the chevalier, and with him much of the elite of the French nobility, being killed at the barricades.

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 ).

In 1747 he obtained a crushing victory over the French at the battle of Assietta, and his territories were saved when the main battleground moved northwards to the Netherlands.

When the French invaded Holland in 1747, William IV was restored as the stadtholder of the entire Dutch Republic, hereditary in both the male and the female lines.

* was originally the French 74-gun ship of the line L ' Invincible, captured off Cape Finisterre in 1747.

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

Notable Hogarth engravings in the 1740s includeThe Enraged Musician ( 1741 ), the six prints of Marriage à-la-mode ( 1745 ; executed by French artists under Hogarth's inspection ), and The Stage Coach or The Country Inn Yard ( 1747 ).