Major Events
- Feb 8 French and Spanish fleet leave Toulon
- Feb 9 Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)
- Feb 22 Battle of Toulon [Battle of Cape Sicié]: Spanish naval fleet supported by France's Levant fleet breaks through a two-year-old British blockade of Italy, allowing the Spanish to go on the offensive against Savoy
- Mar 11 English auction house Sotheby's holds its first ever auction (of books) in London
- Mar 15 French King Louis XV declares war on Britain
- May 17 French army takes Austrian Netherlands
- May 31 French troops conquer Kortrijk
- Jun 6 France and Prussia sign peace treaty
- Sep 30 France and Spain defeat the Kingdom of Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo.
- Nov 24 John Carteret resigns as British Secretary of State for the Northern Department
- More 1744 Events
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Abigail Adams
Anders Celsius
Alexander Pope
Johann Sebastian Bach
Frederick the Great
Henry Pelham