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.

Wentworth, acting without approval of the General Assembly, in 1744 issued a King's Patent to establish a new town within Brentwood called Keeneborough Parish, named after his friend, Sir Benjamin Keene ( 1697 – 1757 ), English minister to Spain.

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

Zedler also published new works such as the trade lexicon Allgemeine Schatz-Kammer Der Kaufmannschafft ( 1741 – 1743, 4 volumes and 1 supplement volume ), stock exchange laws Corpus Juris Cambialis ( Johann Gottlieb Siegels, 1742, 2 volumes ) and the Historical-Political-Geographical Atlas of the whole world ( 1744 – 1749, 13 volumes ), published under the name of the Leipzig bookseller, Johann Samuel Heinsius the Elder.

However, the composer followed them with six years of silence, in which the only work he produced was a new version of Dardanus ( 1744 ).

In 1744, he had been very busy assisting in the negotiations for the establishment of the new " broad bottom " administration, and showed no sympathy for the Jacobite expedition in 1745.

Writing to his friend so early as 1744, Akenside said that the intimacy had " the force of an additional conscience, of a new principle of religion ", and there seems to have been no break in their affection.

The year 1744 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Smith disagreed with this placement, and in April 1808 read a formal description of a new genus before the Linnean Society of London, naming the genus in honour of Scottish botanist James Brodie ( 1744 – 1824 ).

In 1744 the third Duke of Argyll decided to demolish the existing castle and start from scratch with a new building.

About the mid-century Roubiliac was employed for a time as a modeller at the Chelsea porcelain factory, a new outlet for sculptors ' talent in Britain ; its entrepreneur Nicholas Sprimont stood godfather to the sculptor's daughter Sophie, in 1744.

* 1744: The new era of Enkyō ( meaning " Becoming Prolonged ") was created to mark the start of a new 60-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac.

* 1744, German invasion and the beginning of a new movement based on the Age of Enlightenment philosophy in Teramo.

Christian Gotthilf Salzmann ( 1744 – 1811 ) was the founder of the Schnepfenthal institution, a school dedicated to new modes of education ( derived heavily from the ideas of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ).

This situation probably caused the 56-year-old Hans Michel to take, in late April 1744, his wife and four of their children on the arduous and dangerous voyage to seek a new life in America.

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 ).

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

His last architectural work was for Lord Lovat in 1744, for a new house at Castle Dounie.

* He issued a new edition of Kaufmann's " Katholisch ist gut sterben " ( Strasburg, 1744 ).

When the Christian apologists replaced the argument from miracles with the argument from personal witness and the credibility of Biblical evidence, Annet, in his Resurrection of Jesus ( 1744 ), assailed the validity of such evidence, and first advanced the hypothesis of the illusory death of Jesus, suggesting also that possibly Paul should be regarded as the founder of a new religion.

Early in 1744 Angus was offered one of three new Independent Companies being raised by John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun.

Using Cassini's survey of 1744, a provisional value of 443. 44 lignes was assigned to the metre which, in turn, defined the other units of measure.

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.