In the year 1744, France declares war on Great Britain (Mar 15), the first periodical written for women by a woman, The Female Spectator, is founded (Apr), The First Rules of Golf are drawn up at Leith in Scotland, for the first golf competition (Apr 2), HMS Victory sinks in a storm in the English Channel, the wreck of which is located in 2009 (Oct 4), the First Saudi State is founded by Muhammad bin Saud - and all these fine people were born:

1744-0110 Thomas Mifflin* merchant/soldier/ first Governor of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British America (1800/56)

1744-0223 Mayer Amschel Rothschild* founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty - Free Imperial City of Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire (1812/68)

1744-0410 Werner Abrahamson* officer/writer/historian - Slesvig Town, Denmark (1812/68)

1744-0513 Abraham Lincoln* military captain/grandfather of President Lincoln – Berks County, Pennsylvania, British America (1786/41)
1744-0521 Samuel Ireland* author/engraver – Spitalfields, London, England (1800)

1744-0623 Jaakko Martinpoika Pauhu** father of Jaakko Jaakonpoika Sillanpää - Pauhu, Lapua, Sweden-Finland (1825/81)

1744-1001 Tapping Reeve* lawyer/ judge/law educator - Brookhaven, Province of New York, British America (1823/79)
1744-1006 James McGill* businessman/ philanthropist/founder of McGill University in Montreal – Glasgow, Scotland, Great Britain (1813/69)
1744-1027 Mary Moser* painter - London, England (1819/74)

1744-1122 Abigail Adams* (b Smith) wife and advisor of P. John Adams – Weymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British America (1818/73)

1744-1215 Jean-François Pierre Peyron* painter - Aix-en-Provence, France (1814/69)

Updated 12.4.2023-2
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