About the day » Friday August 23, 1743Calender converter

• Baukjes Pieters Hamstra, Drogeham, Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Guilielmus Laes, Veltem-Beisem († 1814)
• Anna van Es († 1807)
• Agnes van Engelen, Heusden
• Baukjen Pieters Hamstra, Drogeham, Friesland, Nederland
• Gabriel Jan van Gestel, Wuustwezel (B)
• Anna Maria VERSYPT, Desteldonk,9042,Flandre Orientale,Flandre,BELGIQUE
• Claas Pieterse Kleijn, Nes en Zwaluwenbuurt, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1805)
• Baukje Pieters, Drogeham, gem. Achtkarspelen, Friesland, Nederland
• Catherine FREUDENREICH, Pfaffenheim, 68, Haut Rhin, Alsace, France († 1801)

• Joanna Johanna dobbelaere (5), Eeklo,, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgique
• Ignace BERGEVIN Suffix (57), Beauport, Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada
• François Baudry (0), Etampes, 91150, France
• Louis Bergevin dit Langevin (61), Beauport, Québec, Canada
• Alessandro Castriota Scanderbeg (83)
• Bartje Lubberts van Bikkelenberg, Amersfoort
• Margretha Theresia von Beywegh, Köln
• Anna Katharina von Wolkenstein (87)
• Jean Nicolas Ernon Cloes (79), Mortroux
• Jan Dieperink, Noordijk, Gelderland, Nederland

• 1724 » Abraham Yates, Jr., American lawyer and civil servant († 1796)
• 1741 » Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, French admiral and explorer († 1788)
• 1754 » Louis XVI of France († 1793)
• 1769 » Georges Cuvier, French biologist and academic († 1832)
• 1783 » William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge († 1852)
• 1785 » Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander († 1819)
• 1805 » Anton von Schmerling, Austrian judge and politician († 1893)
• 1814 » James Roosevelt Bayley, American archbishop († 1877)
• 1829 » Moritz Cantor, German mathematician and historian († 1920)
• 1843 » William Southam, Canadian publisher († 1932)

• 1628 » George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (b. 1592)
• 1652 » John Byron, 1st Baron Byron, English soldier and politician (b. 1600)
• 1706 » Edward Nott, English politician, Colonial Governor of Virginia (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Increase Mather, American minister and author (b. 1639)
• 1806 » Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (b. 1736)
• 1813 » Alexander Wilson (ornithologist), Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, and illustrator (b. 1766)
• 1819 » Oliver Hazard Perry, American commander (b. 1785)
• 1831 » August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760)
• 1831 » Ferenc Kazinczy, Hungarian author and poet (b. 1759)
• 1853 » Alexander Calder, American lawyer and politician (b. 1806)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• May 12 » Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor.
• May 19 » Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
• June 27 » In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle.
• September 13 » Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.

The temperature on August 23, 1743 was about 17.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by north. Weather type: helder.