1747

1747 (MDCCXLVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1747th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 747th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1747, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  – 1740s –  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1744 1745 1746 – 1747 – 1748 1749 1750

1747 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1747 MDCCXLVII
Ab urbe condita	2500
Armenian calendar	1196 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԶ
Assyrian calendar	6497
Balinese saka calendar	1668–1669
Bengali calendar	1154
Berber calendar	2697
British Regnal year	20 Geo. 2 – 21 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2291
Burmese calendar	1109
Byzantine calendar	7255–7256
Chinese calendar	丙寅年 (Fire Tiger) 4443 or 4383     — to — 丁卯年 (Fire Rabbit) 4444 or 4384
Coptic calendar	1463–1464
Discordian calendar	2913
Ethiopian calendar	1739–1740
Hebrew calendar	5507–5508
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1803–1804
- Shaka Samvat	1668–1669
- Kali Yuga	4847–4848
Holocene calendar	11747
Igbo calendar	747–748
Iranian calendar	1125–1126
Islamic calendar	1159–1160
Japanese calendar	Enkyō 4 (延享４年)
Javanese calendar	1671–1672
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4080
Minguo calendar	165 before ROC 民前165年
Nanakshahi calendar	279
Thai solar calendar	2289–2290
Tibetan calendar	阳火虎年 (male Fire-Tiger) 1873 or 1492 or 720     — to — 阴火兔年 (female Fire-Rabbit) 1874 or 1493 or 721

Events

• Afghanistan becomes independent from Persia.
• February 11 – A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Coulon de Villiers, attacks British troops at Grand Pré, Nova Scotia.
• April 9 – The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason.
• May 14 – War of the Austrian Succession: First battle of Cape Finisterre.
• June 9 – Emperor Momozono rises to power in Japan, after Emperor Sakuramachi.

Births

• January 15 – John Aikin, English doctor and writer (died 1822)
• January 19 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (died 1826)
• January 26 – Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster (died 1825)
• February 19 – John "Walking" Stewart, traveller and philosopher (died 1822)
• February 21 – Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (died 1795)
• May 5 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (died 1792)
• July 6 – John Paul Jones, American naval captain (died 1792)
• October 8 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (died 1807)
• December 12 – Anna Seward, English writer (died 1809)

Deaths

• January 16 – Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (born 1680)
• March 16 – Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (born 1690)
• March 23 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (born 1675)
• April 2 – Johann Jacob Dillenius, German botanist (born 1684)
• April 7 – Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Prussian field marshal (born 1676)
• May 28 – Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues, French writer (born 1715)
• May 31 – Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (born 1686)
• June – Nadir Shah, Persian leader (born 1688)
• June 19 – Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (born 1669)
• July 9 – Giovanni Bononcini, Italian composer (born 1670)
• October 10 – John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury (born c.1674)
• November 17 – Alain-René Le Sage, French writer (born 1668)
• December 2 – Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (born 1695)