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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1744

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Events from the year 1744 in Great Britain.

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10–11 February (22–23 February New Style) – War of the Austrian Succession: British fleet defeated by a Franco-Spanish fleet at the Battle of Toulon with loss of the fire ship HMS Anne Galley and all her crew.
27 February – a planned French invasion of Britain fails when a violent storm partially wrecks the French invasion force attempting to cross from Dunkirk to Maldon.
4–15 March – War of the Austrian Succession: France declares war on Britain.
3 October – HMS Victory (1737) is wrecked on the Casquets in the Channel Islands with the loss of around 900 lives.
28 December–8 January 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Quadruple Alliance of Britain, Austria, Saxony-Poland and the United Netherlands is formed against Prussia.
Undated
- Northampton General Hospital established as Northampton Infirmary.
- Mineral springs discovered at Thorp Spa in the West Riding of Yorkshire by John Shires.

April – Eliza Haywood's monthly The Female Spectator begins publication, the first periodical written for women by a woman.
Samuel Johnson's biography of Richard Savage.
John Newbery's children's book A Little Pretty Pocket-Book.
Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, containing the earliest known printed versions of many nursery rhymes.
William Williams Pantycelyn's first collection of Welsh hymns Aleluia (first part).
The first known Laws of cricket.
First definitive version of the national anthem God Save the King in Thesaurus Musicus.

13 February – David Allan, painter (died 1796)
19 May – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of Great Britain (died 1818)
21 May – Samuel Ireland, author and engraver (died 1800)
31 May – Richard Lovell Edgeworth, politician, writer and inventor (died 1817)

14 February – John Hadley, mathematician and inventor (born 1682)
4 March – John Anstis, herald (born 1669)
30 May – Alexander Pope, writer (born 1688)
29 June – John Eames, dissenting tutor (born 1686)
9 August – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, patron of the arts (born 1673)
18 October – Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, friend of Queen Anne (born 1660)

"History of Henry Pelham - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved 19 June 2023.
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"Northampton General Hospital". Northamptonshire Heritage. Archived from the original on 2019-11-16. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
^ "Icons, a portrait of England 1700–1750". Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-24.

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