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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1747. 1747 (MDCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting...
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    beheaded in April 1747, but public opinion was against further trials and the remaining prisoners were pardoned under the Act of Indemnity 1747. They included...
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    Events from the year 1747 in Canada. French Monarch: Louis XV British and Irish Monarch: George II Governor General of New France: Charles de la Boische...
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    Kentucky Route 1747 (KY 1747) is an 18.424 mile (29.651 km) long north–south state highway in the immediate suburbs of Louisville, Kentucky. The southern...
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  • The 1747 British general election returned members to serve in the House of Commons of the 10th Parliament of Great Britain to be summoned, after the merger...
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    The Orangist revolution of 1747 brought William IV, Prince of Orange to the Stadtholder office, finishing the Second Stadtholderless Period. After the...
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    Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (Louis Alexandre Joseph Stanislas; 6 September 1747 – 6 May 1768) was the son and heir of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, great...
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    the line of the French Navy launched in October 1744. Captured on 14 May 1747, she was taken into Royal Navy service as the third rate HMS Invincible....
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  • article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1747. March 31 – Laurence Sterne preaches the Good Friday sermon at St Helen Stonegate;...
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  • The On the Political Affairs of the Karabakh khanate in 1747–1805 was a book written in Russian by Ahmad bey Javanshir about the history of the Qarabagh...
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  • Anhalt-Dornburg (1704–1747), of Anhalt-Zerbst (1742–1747) Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, Regent (1747–1752) Frederick August, Prince (1747–1793) divided...
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    Christianity portal John Potter PC (c. 1674 – 10 October 1747) was Archbishop of Canterbury (1737–1747). He was the son of a linen draper at Wakefield, Yorkshire...
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    Duncan Forbes 5th of Culloden (10 November 1685 – 10 December 1747) was a Scottish lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721...
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  • England. 1747: The mummified remains known as "Amcotts Moor Woman", a bog body, is unearthed from a peat bog in Lincolnshire, England. 1747: Substantial...
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    Treason, to make their full Defence by Council." The Act commenced on 1 June 1747. It entitled anyone impeached by the House of Commons on a charge of high...
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    hereditary stadtholder of all the United Provinces of the Netherlands from 1747 until his death in 1751. During his whole life he was furthermore ruler of...
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    encounter fought during the War of the Austrian Succession on 25 October 1747 (N.S.). A British fleet of fourteen ships of the line commanded by Rear-Admiral...
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    (Persian: افشاریان) was an Iranian dynasty founded by Nader Shah (r. 1736–1747) of the Qirqlu clan of the Turkoman Afshar tribe, ruling over the Afsharid...
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    Friesland (1711–1747), Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht and Overijssel (April/May 1747 – November 1747), Stadtholder of Groningen (1718–1747), Guelders and Drenthe...
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    and is often regarded as the founder of the modern Afghanistan. In June 1747, he was appointed as King of the Afghans by a loya jirga in Kandahar, where...
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    The Republicans forced two Stadtholderless Periods, 1650–1672 and 1702–1747, with the latter causing national instability and the end of Great Power...
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  • Monsieur Sinfray, (fl. 1747–1757) or Monsieur de St. Frais, was a French artillery officer in the Battle of Plassey (1757), who fought for Siraj Ud Daulah...
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    giving him control of its two MPs. Bessborough launched a court case in 1747, arguing that Stewart's burgesses were ineligible as they were not resident...
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    designed and built by François Coulomb the Younger at Toulon from 1745 to 1747, as a modified version of the same constructor's Terrible built at the same...
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    Frederick Henry Charles of Prussia (German: Friedrich Heinrich Karl, 30 December 1747 – 26 May 1767) was the second son of Prince Augustus William, the brother...
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  • Alexander Dunlop (1684–1747) was a British scholar of Ancient Greek. Alexander Dunlop was the eldest son of William Dunlop, principal of Glasgow University...
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    Christoph Mizler. Neu eröffnete musikalische Bibliothek Vol. III. Leipzig (1747), p. 482ff Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg. Abhandlung von der Fuge nach den Grundsätzen...
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  • The year 1747 in science and technology involved some significant events. Bernhard Siegfried Albinus (1697–1770), with the help of the artist Jan Wandelaar...
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    submitted their competing first analyses to the Académie Royale des Sciences in 1747. It was in connection with their research, in Paris during the 1740s, that...
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