The first published version of what is almost the present tune appeared in 1744 in Thesaurus Musicus.

The German version ran to 13 volumes, published by Heinsius between 1744 and 1749.

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

Wooden ramrods were also used in the Dragoon version produced from 1744 to 1771 and for Navy and Marine use.

The earliest printed version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Little Song Book ( c. 1744 ), but the rhyme may be much older.

The earliest printed English version is in the oldest extant collection of nursery rhymes, Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, printed by John Newbery in London ( c. 1744 ), with the following text:

The earliest recorded version of the rhyme is in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, published in London about 1744, which uses the opening line: ' Hickere, Dickere Dock '.

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 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.

Scotland produced two influential genre painters, David Allan ( 1744 – 96 ) and Sir David Wilkie ( 1785 – 1841 ).

Scot was born in 1744 ; some sources state that he was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, while others give him as a native of England.

In 1744 there followed his Fair and Impartial Testimony on the state of the Church of Scotland.

* A fair and impartial testimony: essayed in name of a number of ministers, elders, and Christian people of the Church of Scotland, unto the laudable principles, wrestlings and attainments of that Church ; and against the backslidings, corruptions, divisions, and prevailing evils, both of former and present times ( 1744 )

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In 1744 Pitt received a large boost to his personal fortune when the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough died leaving him a legacy of £ 10, 000 as an " acknowledgment of the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England and to prevent the ruin of his country ".

* May 29 – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, English friend of Queen Anne of England ( d. 1744 )

His father managed to obtain the renewed support of the French government in 1744 ; and Charles Edward travelled to France with the sole purpose of commanding a French army, which he would lead in an invasion of England.

The game of rounders has been played in England since Tudor times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in A Little Pretty Pocket-Book where it was called " base-ball "

Interest in clock-making started when a Dutch ship sailing from England ran aground off Rønne in 1744 carrying five grandfather clocks which were damaged in the accident.

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.

He also wrote a Life of the Right Honourable Robert Boyle ( London, 1744 ); Inquiry into the share which King Charles I had in the transactions of the Earl of Glamorgan for bringing over a body of Irish rebels ( London, 1756 ); Historical view of Negotiations between the Courts of England, France and Brussels 1592-1617 ( London, 1749 ); Life of Archbishop Tillotson ( London, 1753 ); History of the Royal Society of London ( London, 1756 – 1757 ); Life of Henry, Prince of Wales ( London, 1760 ), and many other works.

Beginning in the 18th century crude wagons began to be used to carry passengers between cities and towns, first within New England in 1744, then between New York and Philadelphia in 1756.

It was in the press when he left England in 1744 to secure a medical degree at Leiden.

Anson took his prize back to Macau, sold her cargo to the Chinese, and sailed for England, which he reached via the Cape of Good Hope on 15 June 1744.

Thoresby Hall had one of the finest private libraries in England, which she loved, but it was lost when the building burned in 1744.

Gauger's book on his innovative fireplace designs was translated into English – Fires Improv'd: Being a New Method of Building Chimneys, So as to Prevent their Smoaking ( 1715 ) – by a French immigrant to England, Jean Théophile Desaguliers ( 1683 – 1744 ).

In 1744 he was elected to the position of Warden of the Company of Barber-Surgeons, and had a role in the separation of the surgeons from the barbers and to the creation of the independent Company of Surgeons in 1745, an organisation that would become later the famous Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Category: 1744 establishments in England

Woodcut from " A Little Pretty Pocket-Book " ( 1744 ) England, showing first reference to baseball

A 1744 publication in England by children's publisher John Newbery called A Little Pretty Pocket-Book includes a woodcut of stoolball and a rhyme entitled " Base-ball.

Eight change ringing bells at Old North Church were cast in Gloucester, England in 1744 and hung in 1745.

For most of his life he remained in England, where he pursued an active career in politics, rising to become Lord of the Admiralty from 1742 to 1744.

* 1744 A large-scale French invasion attempt on southern England with Charles Edward Stuart stopped by storms.

In 1740 the Miskitos yielded to England sovereignty over the territory, and in 1744 a transfer of English colonists was organized from Jamaica to the Mosquito Coast ; they brought along with them black slaves.

Holloway was born on 15 January 1744 at Wells, Somerset, England.

Robert Thistlethwayte ( baptized 16 December 1690 – c. January, 1744 ) was a warden of Wadham College, Oxford and clergyman in the Church of England.

The 1766 Theatre Royal, which claims to be the oldest continually-operating theatre in England, joined with the Coopers ' Hall, from 1744 and designed by architect William Halfpenny, to form the Bristol Old Vic.