1744

events

politics

• 26. May: The Principality of East Frisia falls after the death of the last prince Carl Edzard at Prussia.

culture

• 11. March: The auction house „Sotheby's “organizes its first auction.

born

• 8. February: Karl Theodor of Dalberg, archbishop and cure prince of Mainz († 1817)
• 13. February: David everything, British painter and draughtsman († 1796)
• 23. February: Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German banker († 1812)
• 4. May: Marianna Martines, Austrian Komponistin
• 19. May: Sophie Charlotte of Mecklenburg Strelitz, German princess († 1818)
• 1. June: Christian God-help salt man, German minister and paedagogue († 1811)
• 22. June: Johann Christian Erxleben, German scholar († 1777)
• 4. July: Samuel God-dear Gmelin, († 1774)
• 17. July: Elbridge Gerry, US-American politician († 1814)
• 19. July: Heinrich Christian Boie, Evangelist theologian († 1806)
• 1. August: Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, French biologist († 1829)
• 25. August: Johann Gottfried of Herder,German theologian, writer and poet († 1803)
• 25. September: Friedrich William II., King of Prussia († 1797)
• 3. November: God-dear Friedrich Wagner, first freely more selected Schult-hot in Maichingen; Swabian dialect poet († 1839)
• 30. November: Karl Ludwig von Knebel, German poet and translator († 1834)
• 15. December: Eberhard of strain, Prussian politician and general († 1816)
• 19. December: Karl von Hessen-Kassel, hessian noble († 1836)

• Josef Bárta, Czech composer († 1787)

died

• 14. February: John Hadley, English astronomer and mathematician (* 1682)
• 15. February: František Vaclav Míča, Czech composer (* 1694)
• 14. March: Johann Ulrich king, German writer, (* 1688)
• 25. April: Differently Celsius, Swedish astronomer, mathematician and physicist (* 1701)
• 25. May: Carl Edzard, last ostfriesischer prince (* 1716)
• 30. May: Alexander Pope, British poet (* 1688)
• 18. October: Sarah Churchill, Jugendfreundin and confines trusted friends of the queen Anne and the wife John Churchill (* 1660)