1747

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 by topic:
Arts and Sciences
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
Countries
Canada – Great Britain –
Lists of leaders
Colonial governors – State leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Works category
Works

Events

January 31 – The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Lock Hospital.
February 11 – A combined French and Indian force, commanded by Captain Nicholas Antoine Coulon de Villiers, attacks British troops at Grand Pré, Nova Scotia.
April 9 – The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat is beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason (the last man to be executed in this way in Britain).
May 14 – War of the Austrian Succession – First battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy defeats a French fleet.
June 9 – Emperor Momozono ascends to the throne of Japan, succeeding Emperor Sakuramachi.
June 24–October 14 – The English ships Dobbs galley and California, under Captains William Moore and Francis Smith, explore Hudson Bay, discovering there is no Northwest Passage by this route.

July 2 – War of the Austrian Succession – Battle of Lauffeld: France defeats the combined armies of Hanover, Great Britain and the Netherlands.
October
- Thomas Herring is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
- Following the capture of Kandahar, Ahmad Shah Durrani is chosen by a Loya jirga as first leader of the Durrani Empire, predecessor of Afghanistan.
October 25 – War of the Austrian Succession – Second battle of Cape Finisterre: The British Navy again defeats a French fleet.
November 9 – Rioters in Amsterdam demand governmental reform.
November 22 – Prince William IV of Orange becomes stadtholder of all the provinces of the United Provinces.
December 16 – Canter of Coltbrigg – The 13th and 14th Dragoons flee the Jacobites of Charles Edward Stuart.

James Lind discovers that citrus fruits prevent scurvy.
War of the Austrian Succession: Spanish troops invade and occupy the coastal towns of Beaufort and Brunswick in the Royal Colony of North Carolina during what becomes known as the Spanish Alarm. They are later driven out by the local militia.
Samuel Johnson begins work on A Dictionary of the English Language in London.

January 15 – John Aikin, English doctor and writer (d. 1822)
January 19 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (d. 1826)
January 26 – Samuel Parr, English schoolmaster (d. 1825)
February 19 – John "Walking" Stewart, traveller and philosopher (d. 1822)
February 21 – Eugenio Espejo, Ecuadorian scientist (d. 1795)
February 28 – Justin Morgan, Horse breeder and composer (d. 1798)
May 5 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1792)
July 6 – John Paul Jones, American naval captain (d. 1792)
September 9 – Thomas Coke, first American Methodist Bishop (d. 1814)
October 8 – Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (d. 1807)
December 12 – Anna Seward, English writer (d. 1809)
December 31 – Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (d. 1794)
date unknown
- François Tourte, French musical instrument maker (d. 1835)
- Francis Salvador, American patriot (d. 1776)