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1716–1745Japan [political events]Yoshimune, of the Tokugawa house of Kii, succeeds Ienobu as shogun (military ruler) of Japan.
1730–1807UK [newspapers]The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper.
1743–1760North America [town planning]Paving city streets in the North American colonies becomes common, making the colonial streets drier and smoother than those in Britain.
1744 [maths]French mathematician Jean d'Alembert publishes Traite de l'equilibre et du mouvement des fluides/Treatise on Equilibrium and on Movement of Fluids, applying his principle to the motion of fluids.
1744UK, North America [baseball]The children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, published in England by John Newbery, contains the earliest known reference to baseball, a name synonymous with the English game of rounders at this time. The letter ‘B’ is represented by baseball, with an illustration of the game being played. The book is reprinted in North America in 1762 and 1787.
5 May 1744Prussia, Bavaria, Germany, Palatinate, Austria, Holy Roman Empire, Habsburg Monarchy [diplomacy]The Union of Frankfurt is agreed between King Frederick II (the Great) of Prussia, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII (Charles Albert of Bavaria), the Elector Palatine, and the Landgrave of Hesse, to force Maria Theresa of Austria to restore Bavaria, make peace, and restore the constitution of the Holy Roman Empire.
30 May 1744England [births and deaths]Alexander Pope, English poet and satirist, author of ‘Essay on Man’, dies in Twickenham, near London, England (66).
28 December 1744UK, Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Prussia, Holy Roman Empire, Saxony, Germany, Poland, United Netherlands [War of the Austrian Succession (1740–46)]The Quadruple Alliance of Great Britain, Austria, Saxony and Poland (under the same ruler), and the United Netherlands is formed against Prussia.


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Pope's physical disabilities brought him to premature old age, and he died in 1744.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
In spite of his crooked, sickly little body Pope lived to be fifty-six, and one evening in May 1744 he died peacefully in his home at Twickenham, and was buried in the church there, near the monument which he had put up to the memory of his father and mother.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
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