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

He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France.

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.

First, informal changes were made to the order of the various parts of the service and inserting words indicating a sacrificial intent to the Eucharist ; secondly, as a result of Bishop Rattray's researches into the liturgies of St. James and St. Clement, published in 1744, the form of the invocation was changed.

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

Elbridge Gerry was born on July 17, 1744, in Marblehead, Massachusetts, the third of twelve children.

The 1744 version of the song was popularised in Scotland and England the following year, with the landing of Charles Edward Stuart and was published in The Gentleman's Magazine ( see illustration above ).

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

Born in 1744, Jovellanos was somewhat younger than Floridablanco.

It was in 1744 when von Kleist lined a glass jar with silver foil, and charged the foil with a friction machine.

The earliest extant mandolin was built in 1744 by Gaetano Vinaccia.

The agreement was confirmed with an oath in 1744.

The Al Said clan became a royal dynasty when Ahmad ibn Said Al Said was elected imam following the expulsion of the Iranians from Muscat in 1744.

The process of Innocent's beatification was introduced in 1741 by Benedict XIV and continued by Clement XI and Clement XII ; but French influence and the accusation of Jansenism caused it to be suspended in 1744.

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

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

The administration formed by the Pelhams in 1744, after the dismissal of Carteret, included many of Pitt's former Patriot allies, but Pitt was not granted a position because of continued ill-feeling by the King and leading Whigs about his views on Hanover.

Year 1744 ( MDCCXLIV ) was a leap year starting on Wednesday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

In 1744, the seat of Nassau-Usingen was moved to Biebrich.

Alexander Pope ( 21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744 ) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer.

By now Pope's health, which had never been good, was failing, and he died in his villa surrounded by friends on 30 May 1744.

His health, never good, deteriorated rapidly toward the end of 1744 ; Lord Orford died in London in 1745, aged nearly sixty-nine years ; he was buried in his home estate of Houghton.

This was confirmed by the entry of France into the war in 1744.

A combined army was formed at the Battle of Velletri ( 1744 ) and defeated Lobkowitz there on 11 August.

In 1744, colonists completed the Chemin Royal ( Royal Road ), which encircles the entire island.

On the second day of the new year, 1744, the couples went overland to Nazareth to settle in the nearly completed Whitefield House.

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The classical center piece was completed in 1744.

He resided for three years and executed ceiling paintings in the New Residenz palace ( completed 1744 ).

His chief works are: La méridienne de l ’ Observatoire Royal de Paris ( 1744 ), Description géometrique de la terre ( 1775 ), and Description géometrique de la France ( 1784 ), which was completed by his son.

When this magnificent building was completed in 1744, the Prince of Nassau-Usingen relocated his residence from the far side of the Taunus to Biebrich.

Balthasar Neumann, architect of the court of the Bishop of Würzburg, was the principal architect of the Residenz, which was commissioned by the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg Johann Philipp Franz von Schönborn and his brother Friedrich Carl von Schönborn in 1720, and completed in 1744.

The garden front was completed in 1740 and the whole shell in December 1744.

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The ' white church ' in the Main street built by the Paulites, later home of the Benedictine order, was completed by 1744.

The new temple was begun in 1525, and completed in the baroque-style in 1744, expanding the interior to three naves, a royal coat-of-arms and rich panels of azulejos.

The new temple was begun in 1525, and completed in the baroque-style in 1744, expanding the interior to three naves ( a royal coat-of-arms and rich panels of azulejos are part of the interior ).

Work began on the cathedral on 6 August 1660, and it was completed 84 years later, in 1744.

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The new Summer Palace, completed in 1744, was the chief residence of Empress Elizabeth in the Russian capital.

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Before he went to China as a missionary in 1744, he completed astronomical studies in Paris.

He was born near Salem, Salem County, New Jersey, December 21, 1744 ; completed preparatory studies ; engaged in mercantile pursuits ; served as captain in the Continental Army ; held several local offices ; member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1777, 1782, 1784, 1785, 1787, and 1788 ; elected to the First Congress ( March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1791 ); elected as a Federalist to the Fifth Congress ( March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1799 ); died in Salem, N. J., May 15, 1817 ; interment in St. John's Episcopal Cemetery, in Salem.