200 years in art: 1743

Claude Arnulphy

Hyacinthe Rigaud

Giovanni Antonio Guardi

Giuseppe Nogari

From Wikipedia:

January–June

• February 14 – Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister.
• February 21 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson premieres in London .
• May 10 – In New France, Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville ends his final term (multiple times over 43 years) as Governor of colonial French Louisiana, which he helped colonize; he is succeeded by the Marquis de Vaudreuil (for the next 10 years) and returns to France.
• June 16 – Battle of Dettingen in Bavaria: King George II of Great Britain leads his own troops, the last British king to do so.

July–December

• August 7 – Russia and Sweden sign the Treaty of Åbo.
• September 11 – Natalia Lopukhina is flogged in front of the Twelve Collegia building in Saint Petersburg.
• September 13 – The Treaty of Worms is signed between Great Britain, Austria, and Sardinia.
• November 5 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.

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