1743

1743 (MDCCXLIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1743rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 743rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 43rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1740s decade. As of the start of 1743, 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:	1740 1741 1742 – 1743 – 1744 1745 1746

1743 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1743 MDCCXLIII
Ab urbe condita	2496
Armenian calendar	1192 ԹՎ ՌՃՂԲ
Assyrian calendar	6493
Balinese saka calendar	1664–1665
Bengali calendar	1150
Berber calendar	2693
British Regnal year	16 Geo. 2 – 17 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2287
Burmese calendar	1105
Byzantine calendar	7251–7252
Chinese calendar	壬戌年 (Water Dog) 4439 or 4379     — to — 癸亥年 (Water Pig) 4440 or 4380
Coptic calendar	1459–1460
Discordian calendar	2909
Ethiopian calendar	1735–1736
Hebrew calendar	5503–5504
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1799–1800
- Shaka Samvat	1664–1665
- Kali Yuga	4843–4844
Holocene calendar	11743
Igbo calendar	743–744
Iranian calendar	1121–1122
Islamic calendar	1155–1156
Japanese calendar	Kanpō 3 (寛保３年)
Javanese calendar	1667–1668
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4076
Minguo calendar	169 before ROC 民前169年
Nanakshahi calendar	275
Thai solar calendar	2285–2286
Tibetan calendar	ཆུ་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་ (male Water-Dog) 1869 or 1488 or 716     — to — ཆུ་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Water-Boar) 1870 or 1489 or 717

Events

• February 14 – Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister
• February 21 – The premiere in London of George Frideric Handel's oratorio, Samson.
• September 13 – Treaty of Worms (1743) – a treaty between Great Britain, Austria and Sardinia
• Battle of Dettingen

Births

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Deaths

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