Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV of France (d. 1793)
Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (19 August 1743 – 8 December 1793) was the last Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France and one of the victims of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
1743Aug, 19
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Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
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Centigrade temperature scale
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Treaty of Worms (1743)
Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.