Petersburg, bringing a conclusion to the "Lopukhina Affair" plotted by France and the Duchy of Holstein. September 13 – The Treaty of Worms is signed between Great Britain, Austria and Sardinia. October–December October 19 – Louis Maria Colons, one of nine French Canadians who had attempted to colonize territory in what is now New Mexico, is executed for attempting to persuade the Pueblo Indians to rise up against the Spanish colonial government. October 21 – Benjamin Franklin's view of a lunar eclipse from Philadelphia is spoiled by a rainstorm; several days later, he learns that residents of Boston received the same storm hours after the eclipse, demonstrating that weather moves from west to east. October 23 – After almost six weeks, Nader Shah of Persia lifts the siege of Mosul. November 5 – Coordinated scientific observations of the transit of Mercury are organized by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle. December 3 – Ecuadorian scientist Pedro Vicente Maldonado departs from Brazil in order to purchase the most state-of-the-art equipment for the French Geodesic Mission December 9 – At Haarlem, Dutch astronomer Dirk Klinkenberg becomes the first to observe the Great Comet of 1744. Swiss astronomer Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux discovers it independently on December 13. Both scientists are given credit for its discovery December 10 – King Louis XV of France informs King Philip V of Spain of his intent to try to restore the House of Stuart to the throne of the United Kingdom. James Francis Edward Stuart was briefly the Crown Prince of England and Scotland until his father, King James II, was deposed in 1688 and, as Pretender to the Throne, would become King James III if the attack, planned for January 1, 1744 succeeds. December 11 – Princess Louise of Great Britain, daughter of King George II, weds Frederick, Crown Prince of Denmark and Norway. Undated Capodimonte porcelain is first manufactured, in Naples. Probable date – The last wolf in Scotland is shot, in Killiecrankie. Births January 1 – Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Harburn, British admiral (d. 1802) January 18 – Louis Claude de Saint-Martin, French philosopher, "le philosophe inconnu" (d. 1803) January 25 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher (d. 1819) February 13 – Sir Joseph Banks, British naturalist and botanist (d. 1820) February 14 – George Morgan, American merchant and Indian agent (d. 1810) February 19 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer (d. 1805) February 23 – Mayer