The first organised hunt for the benefit of a group ( rather than a single patron ) was started by Thomas, sixth Lord Fairfax in 1747.

Two missions in 1747 and a third in 1760 were established in the sub-tribe of the Itatines, or Tobatines, in Central Paraguay, far north of the older mission group.

A splinter group, the Separate Church of Preston, was established in 1747 and continued until 1817.

Weliwita Saranankara ( 1698 – 1778 ) the Thai monk Upali visited Kandy in 1753 during the reign of king Kirti Sri Rajasinghe ( 1747 – 1782 ), and there performed upasampada ( higher ordination, as distinct from samanera or novice ordination ) for a group of Kandyan monks.

The town was formed as " Salem " in 1747.

A tour in Cornwall in 1746 – 1747, where he met the antiquary and naturalist William Borlase, awakened an interest in minerals and fossils which formed his main scientific study during the 1750s.

Pietro Mingotti from Venice who had formed an opera company was invited to Copenhagen by Queen Louise in 1747.

They soon formed a community, and by 1747 had established a ḥebra ḳaddisha.

When, in 1747, the Associate Synod, by a narrow majority, decided not to give full immediate effect to a judgment which had been passed in the previous year against the lawfulness of the Burgess Oath, Gib led the protesting minority, who broke off and formed the Antiburgher Synod ( April 10 ) in his own house in Edinburgh.

In 1747 he was appointed bishop at Bergen, where he introduced many educational reforms, and wrote Glossarium Norvagicum ( 1749 ) and Versuch einer natürlichen Geschichte Norwegens ( Copenhagen, 1752 – 53 ), while his pastoral letters formed in part the basis of his later Collegium pastorale practicum ( 1757 ).

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.

Thomas Lee, president of the Virginia Council of State, organized the Ohio Company of Virginia in 1747.

In 1747 a number of influential men organized the Ohio Company of Virginia in order to capitalize on these opportunities.

Tanacharison first appears in historical records in 1747, living in Logstown ( near present Ambridge, Pennsylvania ), a multi-ethnic village about 20 miles ( 30 kilometers ) downstream from the forks of the Ohio River.

Despite the clear connection between deforestation and the increasing number of floods ( in 1732, 1734, 1736, 1747, 1756 and 1787 ) the East India Company ’ s Court of Directors gave little support to efforts by governors to eradicate the goat problem.

* General Andrew Anderson ( 1747 – 1824 ) Anderson was commissioned as an Ensign in 1766 in the army of the Honourable East India Company.

Nine years later, in 1747, he joined the East India Company and was appointed commodore of its Bombay Marine naval forces four years later.

Prior to 1799, the Shelekhov-Golikov Company held a charter in Alaska and were founded by Grigory Shelikhov ( 1747 – 1795 ) and Ivan Golikov ( 1729 – 1805 ).

He set sail on a Dutch West India Company ship to Ghana via Guinea, arriving in about 1747 where his father and a sister were still living, and his life from then on becomes more obscure.

Although usually referred to as Portobello Bridge, the correct name is La Touche Bridge ( named after William Digges La Touche ( 1747 – 1803 ), scion of a prominent Dublin business family and a director of the Grand Canal Company ).

In 1790, this private observatory was taken over by the East India Company, with Michael Topping ( 1747 – 96 ) as an astronomer.

The Durrani Empire (, also referred to as the Last Afghan Empire ) was founded in 1747 by Ahmad Shah Durrani with its capital at Kandahar, Afghanistan.

In October 1747 a loya jirga ( grand council ) concluded near the city of Kandahar with Ahmad Shah Durrani being selected as the new leader of the Afghans, thus the Durrani dynasty was founded.

Around 1747 he had a son by a Miss Edington, and though he gave his child James Smeaton Hutton financial assistance, he had little to do with the boy who went on to become a post-office clerk in London.

By the mid-18th century there was an increasing number of proposals to create a public gallery, with the art critic La Font de Saint-Yenne publishing, in 1747, a call for a display of the royal collection '.

When the Durrani Afghan Empire was created by Ahmad Shah Durrani in 1747, his military fought many wars with the Punjab region of Hindustan and Persia during the 18th to the 19th century.

However, it was not until 1747 that James Lind formally proved that scurvy could be treated and prevented by supplementing the diet with citrus fruit such as limes or lemons, though not by other acids, in the first ever clinical trial.

Galimard perfumery, established in 1747 by Jean de Galimard provided the Royal Court with ointments and perfumes.

In Munich on 13 June 1747 ( by proxy ) and again in Dresden on 20 June 1747 ( in person ), Frederick Christian married with Maria Antonia of Bavaria.

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.

In 1747 the islands were hit with the first of the many droughts that have plagued them ever since, with an average interval of five years.

The war ( 1744 – 7 ) was conducted with similar brutality and ended when Pavlutsky was killed in March 1747.

* 1747 — William Watson, while experimenting with a Leyden jar, observes that a discharge of static electricity causes electric current to flow and develops the concept of an electrical potential ( voltage ).

When Boone's oldest brother Israel also married a " worldling " in 1747, Squire Boone stood by his son and was therefore expelled from the Quakers, although his wife continued to attend monthly meetings with her children.

Near the end of that war in 1747 an Orangist revolution restored the stadtholderate with vastly increased powers for the stadtholder ( the stadtholderate became hereditary ).

It was attacked and rebuilt repeatedly during the French and Indian Wars, with the final two attacks occurring in 1747 at Fort Frederick.

Although officially incorporated in 1807, Piqua's history dates back to a previous settlement in 1747 called Fort Pickawillany located a mile northeast of the present city at the Great Miami River's intersection with Loramie Creek.

It is 30 m high and was built to Flitcroft's design in 1747 – 48 to commemorate the defeat of the Jacobite rebellion, in which Lord Malton and his surviving son took part ; his defensive efforts for the Hanoverian Whig establishment were rewarded with the Lord Lieutenancy of Yorkshire and the title Marquess of Rockingham: thus the monument indirectly reflects the greater glory of the family.

In 1747 he undertook a journey to Vienna, in company with the bishop of Volterra, for whom he acted in the capacity of secretary.

He was highly demanding and bad-tempered, unable to maintain longstanding partnerships with his librettists, with the exception of Louis de Cahusac, who collaborated with him on several operas, including Les fêtes de l ' Hymen et de l ' Amour ( 1747 ), Zaïs ( 1748 ), Naïs ( 1749 ), Zoroastre ( 1749 ; revised 1756 ), La naissance d ' Osiris ( 1754 ), and Anacréon ( the first of Rameau's operas by that name, 1754 ).

A Burman monk with Toungoo royal lineage was proclaimed King of Pegu and was later succeeded by Binnya Dala in 1747.