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1743| 1716–1745 | Japan [political events] | Yoshimune, of the Tokugawa house of Kii, succeeds Ienobu as shogun (military ruler) of Japan. | | 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 1743–1760 | North America [town planning] | Paving city streets in the North American colonies becomes common, making the colonial streets drier and smoother than those in Britain. | | 1743 | UK [boxing] | Jack Broughton, the champion prizefighter of England, drafts his Rules on Boxing, which are in part designed to lessen the brutality of the sport. They remain in force until 1838, when they are superseded by the London Prize Ring Rules. | | 1743 | Italy [ceramics] | The Capo-di-Monte porcelain factory is set up in Naples, Italy. It specializes in soft-paste figurines. | | 1743 | France [everyday life] | Claude Moët sets up his champagne production company in France, which, as Moët et Chandon, will become France's largest producer of champagne. | | 1743 | [maths] | French mathematician Jean d'Alembert expands Newton's work on dynamics in his Traité de dynamique/Treatise on Dynamics. He states a principle that the external and inertial forces acting on a solid object in motion are in equilibrium. | | 13 April 1743 | USA [births and deaths] | Thomas Jefferson, third president of the USA 1801–09, a Democratic-Republican, born in Shadwell, Virginia (–1826). | | 17 August 1743 | Russia, Sweden [treaties] | The Peace of Åbo ends the territorial war between Russia and Sweden. The treaty cedes south Finland as far as the River Kiümen to Russia. | | 13 September 1743 | Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Holy Roman Empire, UK, Sardinia, Milan, Italy [treaties] | The Treaty of Worms is agreed between Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Great Britain, and Sardinia to expel the Bourbons from Italy, to obtain part of Milan for the Kingdom of Sardinia, and guaranteeing British subsidies to its allies in the War of the Austrian Succession. | | 25 October 1743 | France, Spain, UK, Sardinia, Milan, Italy, Parma [treaties] | The Treaty of Fontainebleau (the ‘Second Family Compact’) between France and Spain is established. Gibraltar and Port Mahón, Minorca, are to be wrested from Great Britain; King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia is to surrender his recent acquisitions in Italy; and the Italian duchies of Milan, Parma, and Piacenza are to pass to Don Philip, the second son of King Philip V of Spain and Elizabeth Farnese. |
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