Feb 03 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants

Feb 08 Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth

Feb 19 The birth of Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer and cellist

Apr 13 Thomas Jefferson born

Apr 13 The birth of Thomas Jefferson, Former American President

Jun 27 English defeat French at Dettingen

Aug 16 Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)

Aug 10 Earliest recorded prize fighting rules formulated

Mar 05 US religious journal, The Christian History, first published, Boston

Mar 14 First American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)

Mar 23 George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London