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

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

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

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

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

* 1744 – John Anstis, Garter King of Arms ( b. 1669 )

John Hadley ( 1682 – 1744 ) was mathematician inventor of the octant, the precursor to the sextant.

Two men independently developed the octant around 1730: John Hadley ( 1682 – 1744 ), an English mathematician, and Thomas Godfrey ( 1704 – 1749 ), a glazier in Philadelphia.

Thomas Mifflin was born January 10, 1744 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of John Mifflin and Elizabeth Bagnall.

* August 29 – John Anstis, English herald ( d. 1744 )

* April 16 – John Hadley, English inventor ( d. 1744 )

In February 1744, a French fleet of twenty sail of the line entered the English Channel under Jacques Aymar, comte de Roquefeuil, before the British force under Admiral John Norris was ready to oppose him.

On her death in 1744, the property passed to her grandson, John Spencer, and subsequently to the first Earl Spencer.

* John Theophilus Desaguliers ( 1683 – 1744 ), philosopher

The staircases of the interior façade are decorated with cartouches similar to those found in First Quad, and likewise bear the arms of important figures in the College's history ; ( 13 ) Sir Walter Raleigh who was an undergraduate from 1572 to 1574, ( 14 ) John Keble who was a Fellow between 1811 and 1835 ), ( archway ) Edward Hawkins who was Provost from 1828 until 1882 and ( 15 ) Gilbert White who was an undergraduate from 1739 until 1743 and a Fellow from 1744 until 1793.

The year 1744 is the first record of John Hart ’ s “ logg ”, near where Alexandria is located now.

The day-long event recognizes the early days of the small borough, when, in 1744, a licensed Indian trader named John Hart used a large hollowed-out log to feed and salt his horses while he conducted his trading.

* John Simpson born 1744 died February 3, 1809. was a lieutenant in the Continental Army and in the fall fall of 1776 fought along side Washington in the battle of Trenton and Princeton

His Tracts on the Probability of reaching the North Pole ( 1775 ) were written in consequence of the northern voyage of discovery undertaken by Captain Constantine John Phipps, afterwards Lord Mulgrave ( 1744 – 1792 ).

Martha had three brothers and four sisters: John ( 1733 – 1749 ), William ( 1734 – 1776 ), Bartholomew ( 1737 – 1785 ), Anna Marie " Fanny " Dandridge Bassett ( 1739 – 1777 ), Frances ( 1744 – 1757 ), Elizabeth Dandridge Aylet Henley ( 1749 – 1800 ), and Mary Dandridge ( 1756 – 1763 ).

A Little Pretty Pocket-Book from 1744 by John Newbery was the earliest illustrated storybook marketed as pleasure reading in English.

John was the son of George Carteret, 1st Baron Carteret ( 1667 – 1695 ), by his marriage with Grace Granville ( 3 September 1654-18 October 1744 ), daughter of Sir John Granville, 1st Earl of Bath ( 29 August 1628-August 1701 ).

He was the eldest son of John Henry ( d. 1766 ), a merchant whose father, Alexander Henry ( d. 1744 ), had emigrated to British North America from the West of England to seek his fortune.

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.

In 1744 Bishop Francisco Javier de Luna Victoria y Castro established the College of San Ignacio de Loyola and on June 3, 1749 founded La Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Javier.

Category: Populated places established in 1744

Category: Populated places established in 1744

In 1744, a ferry was established at the present site of Williamsport to carry the traffic across the Potomac River.

In 1739, William Johnson, previously residing closer to Amsterdam, purchased land including the site of the village and established a mill in 1744.

Category: Populated places established in 1744

Category: Populated places established in 1744

Category: Populated places established in 1744

Artistic academies were established all over Europe by the end of the 18th century, and many, like the Akademie der Künste in Berlin ( founded 1696 ), the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid ( founded 1744 ), the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg ( 1757 ), the Royal Academy in London ( 1768 ) and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan ( 1776 ) still run art schools and hold large exhibitions, although their influence on taste greatly declined from the late 19th century.

Category: Populated places established in 1744

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson is fabled to have returned from 5 years in Europe with a waffle iron, setting off a fad for waffle frolics ( waffle parties ), though waffle frolics had been documented as early as 1744 in New Jersey, and the Dutch had long since established waffles in New Amsterdam ( New York City ).

Sotheby ’ s was established on March 11, 1744 in London.

It was established in the year 1744 ( 1157 A. H .) when Imam Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Prince Muhammad ibn Saud formed an alliance to establish a religious and political sovereignty determined to purge the Arabian Peninsula of heretical practices and deviations from orthodox Islam as they understood it.

Category: States and territories established in 1744

She entered the stage in 1740 in Lüneburg and established her own troupe in 1741 who failed in 1744.

Category: Populated places established in 1744

Pensnett Close was first enclosed in 1744, with the Pensnett Chase Act being passed in 1784 to enclose it further, which included a clause to compensate people for mining subsidence, indicating the industry was well established in the area.

Namely: Pueblo de Romblon, the Cabesera or Capital town established as pueblo in 1631 during the term of Las Islas Filipinas Spanish Governor-General Juan Niño de Tavora, Banton in 1622, Sibuyan ( Cajidiocan ) established in 1744 and Looc which was established in 1844.