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List of state leaders in 1743
- February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister
- February 21 - - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel'Oratorio" title ="Oratorio">oratorio, Samson.
- September 13 - Treaty of Worms (1743) - a treaty between Great Britain, Austria and Sardinia
- Battle of Dettingen
- January 25 - Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (invented term "nihilism")
- February 13 - Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist
- February 19 - Luigi Boccherini, Italian classical music performer
- February 23 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, banker (+ 1812)
- March 4 - Johann David Wyss, Swiss author, (+ 1818)
- April 13 - Thomas Jefferson, later 3rd President of the United States(+ 1826).
- August 26 - Antoine Lavoisier (French chemist aka father of modern chemistry)
- September 11 - Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, Danish painter.
- September 17 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist
- JosÃ© Fernando de Abascal, Spanish viceroy of Peru.
- January 29 - Cardinal AndrÃ©-Hercule de Fleury, Bishop of FrÃ©jus, chief minister of France under Louis XV
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