1730s

The 1730s decade ran from January 1, 1730, to December 31, 1739.

Events

1730


January–March

April–June

  • April 8 – Congregation Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
  • May 9 (April 28 O.S.) – The coronation of Anna of Russia as Empress of Russia takes place in Saint Petersburg.
  • May 15 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, retires from his role in the government of Great Britain, leaving Robert Walpole as sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet (i.e., prime minister). In the new Walpole ministry, Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet, becomes Secretary at War, and Henry Pelham is Paymaster of the Forces; Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington briefly becomes Lord Privy Seal.
  • June 1 – Enslaved woman Sally Basset is put on trial for murder in Bermuda; she will eventually be convicted and burned at the stake.
  • June 19 – At the urging of Sir William Gooch, the Virginia House of Burgesses passes the Virginia Tobacco Inspection Act to regulate the quality of tobacco in Virginia, 46 to 5.[3][4]
  • June 27 – French explorer Alphonse de Pontevez, commanding the frigate Le Lys, claims an Indian Ocean atoll for France and names it after himself as the Alphonse Atoll. The next day, he claims and names the St. François Atoll.

July–September

  • July 8 – 1730 Valparaíso earthquake: An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.1 strikes Valparaíso, in modern-day Chile but at this time in the Viceroyalty of Peru.
  • July 12 – The papal conclave selects Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini over Cardinal Pietro Marcellino Corradini as the successor to Pope Benedict XIII. Corsini becomes Pope Clement XII as the 246th pope.
  • August 4 – Maria Madlener becomes the last person to be executed after the Galgeninsel witch trials in Bavaria, and is beheaded by sword.
  • August 5 – Prince Frederick of Prussia, the eldest son of King Frederick William and a high-ranking officer, attempts to flee to England after deserting the Prussian Army and is captured along with his fellow officer Hans Hermann von Katte. Katte is executed, and Crown Prince Frederick is imprisoned at Küstrin (modern-day Kostrzyn nad Odrą in Poland) for a year before being forgiven by his father. Prince Frederick later succeeds his father as King and will be remembered as Frederick the Great.[5]
  • August 12 – General Nader Khan of Persia captures Tabriz from the Ottoman Empire, bringing an end to the Western Persia Campaign, the first major action in the Ottoman–Persian War (1730–1735). Tabriz becomes a permanent part of Iran. Nader leaves the city four days later to begin the Herat Campaign of 1731.
  • August 25 – French Protestant Marie Durand is imprisoned in the Tower of Constance at Aigues-Mortes for her defiance of the Roman Catholic government, and is kept captive for the next 38 years. During her incarceration, she continues to resist converting to Catholicism as a condition of release. She is finally set free on April 14, 1768 and lives 8 more years.[6]
  • September 1 – A volcano erupts on Lanzarote, the easternmost of the Canary Islands and threatens the Spanish inhabitants. On Gran Canaria, the regent of the islands reports to Madrid that the flames are visible even from 130 miles (210 km) away.[7]
  • September 17 – Mahmud I (d. 1754) succeeds Ahmed III (ruled since 1703) as Ottoman Emperor.

October–December

  • November 6 – After being convicted of treason for attempting to desert the Prussian Army with Crown Prince Frederick, Hans Hermann von Katte is beheaded at the Küstrin Prison. Frederick's father, King Frederick William, forces the prince to watch the execution.[5]
  • December 9 – The first documented notice in North America about freemasonry is published in The Pennsylvania Gazette in an article by its publisher, Benjamin Franklin.[8]
  • December 27 – The Dutch East India Company ends an almost 11-year effort of trying to maintain a colony around Delagoa Bay in southern Africa in modern-day Mozambique. The entire population of the settlement, Fort Lydzammheid (near modern-day Maputo) is evacuated by the ships Snuffelaar, Zeepost and Feyenoord and the group returns to Cape Town.[9]

1731


January–March

April–June

  • April 9 – British trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off after his ship, Rebecca is boarded by Spanish coast guards at Havana in Cuba.[14] The incident becomes the casus belli for the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.[15]
  • April 28 – A fire at White's Chocolate House, near St. James's Palace in London, destroys the historic club and the paintings therein, but is kept from spreading by the fast response of firemen.[16]
  • May 10 – The Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy is established by order of the Empress Anna of Russia, who directs Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev to assume command over the new fleet and to develop Okhotsk as a major port.[17][18]
  • June 4 – The English market town of Blandford Forum is destroyed by fire, with the exception of 26 houses. About one-third of the uninsured losses are paid for by the collection of disaster relief money.[16]

July–September

  • August 15 – King Frederick William I of Prussia forgives his 19-year-old son, Prince Frederick, who has been confined since November to the town of Küstrin (now Kostrzyn nad Odrą in Poland) for his 1730 attempt to desert from the Prussian Army.[19] Nine years later, having been politically rehabilitated, Prince Frederick succeeds his father as King and is later remembered as "Frederick the Great".
  • August 23 – The oldest known sports score in history is recorded in the description of a cricket match at Richmond Green in England, when the team of Thomas Chambers of Middlesex defeats the Duke of Richmond's team by 119 to 79.
  • September – The first successful appendectomy is performed by English surgeon William Cookesley.[20]
  • September 30 – The village of Barnwell, Cambridgeshire, England, is "burned down entirely" by a fire.[16]

October–December

  • October 23 – A fire at Ashburnham House in Westminster destroys 114 irreplaceable manuscripts (including a manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) and damages 98 others (among them the manuscript of Beowulf). Richard Bentley, the King's librarian and the House's owner, saves the only copy of the Codex Alexandrinus, carrying it under one arm as he leaps from a window. Bentley's ten year labor in translating the Greek Testament is ruined by the blaze. The remaining 844 manuscripts later form the heart of the collections of the British Library.[21][16]
  • November 25
    • Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler announces his use of the irrational number e (approximately 2.71828) as the base for the concept of the natural logarithm, describing it in a letter to German mathematician Christian Goldbach.
    • Patrona Halil, an ethnic Albanian and a janissary who instigated a mass uprising in 1730 within the Ottoman Empire that brought Mahmud I to power as the new Sultan, is strangled to death in Mahmud's presence after the rebellion is suppressed.
  • December 21 – The Maharaja Chhatrasal, monarch of Bundelkhand in India (part of the modern-day states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh) dies at the age of 82. His kingdom is divided into four parts, with one part going to Baji Rao I of the Marathas and the other three going to his three sons: Harde Sah gets the Panna State, Jagat Rai gets the Jaitpur State and Bharti Chand gets the Jaso State.
  • December 29 – Jacques Grimaldi, the husband of the reigning monarch of Monaco, Louise Hippolyte, succeeds to the throne after Louise's death from smallpox. Jacques I rules until his own death in 1751.[12]

Date unknown

  • Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor George Burrington asks the North Carolina General Assembly to pass an act establishing a town on the Cape Fear River, in what is seen as a political move to shift the power away from the powerful Cape Fear plantation class. The town is laid out in 1733, and incorporated as Wilmington in 1740.
  • Laura Bassi becomes the first official female university teacher, on being appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna, at the age of 21.[22]

1732

January–March

April–June

  • April 12 – King Christian VI of Denmark-Norway signs the charter for the new Danish Asia Company (Dansk Asiatisk Kompagni), granting it a 40-year monopoly on Denmark-Norway's trade in Asia, leading to the creation of Danish India and cities of Trankebar (now Tharangambadi in Tamil Nadu), Frederiknagore (now Serampore in West Bengal) and the Frederiksøerne Islands (now the Nicobar Islands).
  • April 16 – After his disastrous attempt to fight the Ottoman Empire, Shah Tahmasp II is removed from the throne of Iran by one of his generals, Nader Khan, who later proclaims himself the King of Persia in Tahmasp's place as Nader Shah.
  • May 10 – Representatives of the heirs of William Penn and of Lord Baltimore, the respective owners of most of the land in the Province of Pennsylvania and the Province of Maryland set out the boundary between the two future U.S. states after a survey determines that Philadelphia is located on the Maryland side of the border. The dispute eventually leads to a lawsuit and the eventual survey by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to determine the Mason–Dixon line.
  • May 13 – Rebels in Corsica agree to allow the Republic of Genoa to resume its administration of the island in return for amnesty and promised reforms.
  • May 28 – Dirck van Cloon becomes the new Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
  • June 9 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.[27]

July–September

  • July 2 – Spain completes the conquest of the Algerian cities of Oran and Mers El Kébir in the Oran Province, after a 17-day siege.
  • August 16 – The Order of Malta under the command of Jacques-François de Chambray defeats a convoy of the Ottoman Empire and frees 14 Christian slaves, following the naval battle of Damietta.[28]
  • August 21 – Mikhail Gvozdev in the Sviatoi Gavriil makes the first known crossing of the Bering Strait, from Cape Dezhnev to Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska, marking the first time that Europeans have reached the northwest coast of North America.[29]
  • September 13 – The Treaty of the Three Black Eagles or the Treaty of Berlin, a secret treaty between the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire and Prussia against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • September 16
    • The magnitude 5.8 Montreal earthquake occurs in Quebec (New France).
    • A military warehouse explosion kills up to two-thirds of the population of Campo Maior, Portugal.[30]

October–December

  • October 7 – French Army Lieutenant General Florent-Jean de Vallière is tasked by King Louis XV to improve France's method of forging cannons.
  • October 16 – Russia approves the second Kamchatka expedition of Danish-born Russian cartographer Vitus Bering, and the Admiralty orders him to sail east and try to claim uncharted lands in North America.
  • November 29 – The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes 1,940 deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples.
  • December 5 – 139 members of the Parlement of Paris, exiled by order of King Louis XV, secure their recall. [31]
  • December 7 – The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (the modern-day Royal Opera House) is opened.
  • December 19 – Benjamin Franklin, in the Pennsylvania Gazette, first advertises the publication of Poor Richard's Almanack, purportedly written by "Richard Saunders", a pen name used by Franklin. [32] The book goes on sale on December 28. [33] The annual publication will continue until 1758.

Date unknown

  • Herman Boerhaave publishes the authorized edition of his Elementa chemiae, recognised as the first text on chemistry.[34]
  • The world's first lightship is moored at the Nore, in the Thames Estuary of England.[35]
  • This year's General Assembly of the Church of Scotland gives rise to the First Secession of 1733.

1733

January–March

  • January 13 – Borommarachathirat V becomes King of Siam (now Thailand) upon the death of King Sanphet IX.
  • January 27 – George Frideric Handel's classic opera, Orlando is performed for the first time, making its debut at the King's Theatre in London.
  • February 12 – British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.[36]
  • March 21 – The Molasses Act is passed by British House of Commons, which reinforces the negative opinions of the British by American colonists.[37] The Act then goes to the House of Lords, which consents to it on May 4 and it receives royal assent on May 17.
  • March 25 – English replaces Latin and Law French as the official language of English and Scottish courts following the enforcement of the Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act 1730.

April–June

  • April 6
    • After British Prime Minister Robert Walpole's proposed excise tax bill results in rioting over the imposition of additional taxes and the use of government agents to collect them, Walpole informs the House of Commons that he will withdraw the legislation.[38]
    • Royal Colony of North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble begin selling lots for the town of New Carthage (which is later renamed and is now Wilmington, North Carolina), on the east side of the Cape Fear River.[39]
  • May 1 – The canton system is first introduced in Prussia.
  • May 17 – The Molasses Act receives royal assent and begins to go into effect on June 24.
  • May 26 – The introduction of John Kay's Flying Shuttle which revolutionized the textile industry and marked the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
  • May 29 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec.
  • June 12 – At Schloss Salzdahlum, Prince Frederick of Prussia, the 21-year-old heir to the throne reluctantly marries Duchess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern in order to avoid prosecution for desertion from the Prussian Army and to be guaranteed the throne. Despite the unhappy marriage Frederick and Elisabeth later reign as King and Queen Consort of Prussia.
  • June 15 – The Danish West India Company buys the island of Saint Croix from France for 750,000 livres.

July–September

  • July 15 – A hurricane off of the coast of the Florida Keys wrecks at least 17 Spanish ships.
  • July 30 – The first Freemasons lodge, the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, opens in what will become the United States of America.[40]
  • August 19 – In Warsaw as Stanislas Leszczynski appears to be on the verge of being elected King of Poland, Russia, Austria and Saxony sign Löwenwolde's Treaty (named for Russian diplomat Karl Gustav von Löwenwolde), pledging to go to war to place Frederick Augustus, son of the late King Augustus II, on the throne.[41]
  • September 12 – Stanislas Leszczynski, who had been King of Poland from 1704 to 1709 until being driven from the throne by King Augustus II, is returned to office by the vote of the Sejm.[42] Russia and Austria protest the election, since King Stanislaus is backed by France and Sweden.
  • September 26 – The Treaty of Turin is signed in Turin as a secret agreement between King Louis XV of France and King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia.[43]

October–December

1734

January– March

  • January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia in America.[45]
  • February 16 – The Ostend Company, established in 1722 in the Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) to compete for trade in the West Indies (the Caribbean islands) and the East Indies (south and southeast Asia), ceases business as part of the agreement by Austria in the Second Treaty of Vienna.
  • March 12 – Salzburgers arrive at the mouth of the Savannah River in the British Colony of Georgia.

April–June

  • April 25 – Easter occurs on the latest possible date (the next time is in 1886).
  • May 15 – Prince Charles of Spain (later King Charles III) becomes the new King of Naples and Sicily, five days after his arrival in Naples.
  • May 25 – Spanish forces under the command of José Carrillo de Albornoz, 1st Duke of Montemar, defeat the Austrian forces, completing the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples at the Battle of Bitonto.
  • May 27 – French and Swiss troops suppress the slave insurrection in the Danish West Indies on the island of Saint John (part of the modern-day U.S. Virgin Islands) after six months and restore control of the plantations to the Danish owners.[46]
  • June 6 – With the conclusion of the British general election (voting having begun in some constituencies on April 22), the Whigs, led by Prime Minister Robert Walpole, lose 85 seats but retain their majority.
  • June 17 – French troops take Philippsburg, but the Duke of Berwick is killed.
  • June 21 – In Montreal, New France, a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is tortured then hanged by the French authorities for allegedly setting a fire that destroyed part of the city.
  • June 30 – War of the Polish Succession: Russian troops take Gdańsk (German: Danzig), which had been besieged since February 1734, after the failure of a French expedition to relieve the city.

July–September

  • July 18 – War of the Polish Succession: The Siege of Philippsburg (an Austrian fortress near Karlsruhe, Germany) by the French Army ends after eight weeks as its Austrian defenders surrender.
  • August 6 – The armies of Spain and France, led by the Duke of Parma (and future King Charles III of Spain) storm the city of Gaeta in Naples, ending a four-month siege (War of the Polish Succession).
  • September 28 – Abdu'llah bin Ismail as-Samin is deposed after a 15-year reign as Sultan of Morocco.

October–December

  • October 23 – Jamaica's Governor John Ayscough declares martial law to fight the slave rebellion that began in 1733, then drafts 600 men into the colonial army to march into the Blue Mountains.[47] (→ First Maroon War)
  • October 31 – Chief Tomochichi of the Yamacraw band of the Muscogee Nation ends a successful four and a half month visit to Great Britain, along with Georgia Governor James Oglethorpe and other Yamacraw Indians, after having signed the cession of the area of modern day Savannah, Georgia to the Georgia Company. On June 16, he and the Muscogee delegation (Senauki, Toonahowi, Hillispilli, Umpichi, Apokutchi, Santachi and Stimaletchi) had been welcomed as guests of King George II. The group departs on HMS Aldborough after completing the visit by the largest delegation of Native Americans since 1616.[48]
  • November 5 – The Dzików Confederation is created in Poland.
  • December 24 – A fire destroys the Royal Alcázar of Madrid, the residence of the Spanish royal family, along with more than 400 valuable paintings, 100 sculptures and thousands of documents.

Undated

  • Creation of the Kanem–Bornu Empire after Kanem is taken over by the Sultan of Bornu.[49]
  • Anton Wilhelm Amo becomes the first African to receive a doctorate in Europe and begins teaching at the University of Halle.[49]

1735

January–March

  • January 2 – Alexander Pope's poem Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot is published in London.[50]
  • January 8 – George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante is premièred at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London.
  • February 3 – All 256 people on board the Dutch East India Company ships Vliegenthart and Anna Catherina die when the two ships sink in a gale off of the Netherlands coast. The wreckage of Vliegenthart remains undiscovered until 1981.[51]
  • February 14 – The Order of St. Anna is established in Russia, in honor of the daughter of Peter the Great.
  • March 10 – The Russian Empire and Persia sign the Treaty of Ganja, with Russia ceding territories in the Caucasus mountains to Persia, and the two rivals forming a defensive alliance against the Ottoman Empire.
  • March 11 – Abraham Patras becomes the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (modern-day Indonesia) upon the death of Dirck van Cloon.

April–June

July–September

  • August 16 (August 5 old style) – John Peter Zenger of The New York Weekly Journal becomes a symbol of freedom of the press when he is acquitted of seditious libel against William Cosby, the British Governor of the Province of New York. A jury concludes that what Zenger published was true.
  • September 4 – Al-Husayn I ibn Ali, the first Bey of Tunis (modern-day Tunisia) is defeated at the Battle of Smindja by Abu l-Hasan Ali I with the help of Ibrahim ben Ramdan, the Dey of Algiers.
  • September 14 – The Kingdom of France approves the issue of "card money" in the total amount of 200,000 livres to serve as currency in its Louisiana territory in America.
  • September 22 – Sir Robert Walpole, the prime minister of Great Britain, becomes the first British premier to move into London's 10 Downing Street.

October –December

  • October 3 – An agreement between the European powers brings a ceasefire in the War of the Polish Succession, one week short of the second anniversary of the war. With France and Spain on the side of the reigning monarch, Stanisław Leszczyński, and Prussia, Russia and Austria supporting Augustus III, a preliminary peace is signed that is ratified as the Treaty of Vienna (1738). By the terms of the treaty, Stanisław Leszczyński renounces his claim on the Polish throne and recognizes Augustus III, Duke of Saxony. As compensation he receives instead the duchies of Lorraine and Bar which are to pass to France upon his death.
  • October 14 – John Wesley and his brother Charles set sail from England for Savannah in the Province of Georgia in British America; on the voyage they first encounter members of the Moravian Church.
  • October 18 – In China, Qianlong succeeds his father, Yongzheng, as Emperor and begins a 60-year-long reign within the Qing dynasty.
  • November 25 – The largest bell in the world, the 22 foot (6.7 m) diameter Tsar Kolokol, is successfully cast in Moscow within the Kremlin.[57]
  • November 30 – The Netherlands becomes the first government to announce a prohibition against citizens joining the Freemasons.[58]
  • December 6 – The second successful appendectomy is performed by naturalised British surgeon Claudius Aymand at St George's Hospital in London (the first was in 1731).[59]
  • December 19 – At the age of 8 years old, Prince Luis of Spain becomes the youngest Roman Catholic Cardinal in history, after being named by Pope Clement XII.

Date unknown

  • Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces fail to occupy the Crimea, due to rasputitsa.
  • Linnaeus publishes his Systema Naturae.
  • A shipbuilding industry begins in Mumbai.
  • Leonhard Euler solves the Basel problem, first posed by Pietro Mengoli in 1644, and the Seven Bridges of Königsberg problem.
  • The King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) is completed.
  • Quebec: Construction begins on the Chemin du roy between Quebec and Montreal.
  • Augusta, Georgia, is founded.
  • Cobalt is discovered and isolated by Georg Brandt, the first metal element found since ancient times.
  • Probable date – Founded by Jehan-Jacques Blancpain in Villeret, Switzerland, Blancpain becomes the first registered watch brand in the world.[60]

1736

January–March

April–June

  • April 14
    • The Porteous Riots erupt in Edinburgh (Scotland), after the execution of smuggler Andrew Wilson, when town guard Captain John Porteous orders his men to fire at the crowd. Porteous is arrested later.
    • German adventurer Theodor Stephan Freiherr von Neuhoff is crowned King Theodore of Corsica, 25 days after his arrival on Corsica on March 20.[62] His reign ends on November 5 when he flees the island.
  • April 19 – A fire in Stony Stratford, England, consumes 53 houses.[63]
  • April – The Genbun era begins in Japan. The era of Kyōhō Reforms ends.
  • May 8 – Frederick, Prince of Wales, marries Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
  • May 22 – King George II of Great Britain departs for Europe as part of his duties as Elector of Hanover; his wife, Caroline, Queen Consort rules on his behalf as the Regent for the last time until his return on January 14, 1736.[64]
  • May 26 – Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
  • June 8 – Leonhard Euler writes to James Stirling describing the Euler–Maclaurin formula, providing a disconnection between integrals and sums.
  • June 19 – A French Academy of Sciences expedition, led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis, with Anders Celsius, begins work on measuring a meridian arc in Meänmaa, Finland.[65]
  • June 24 – Witchcraft Act 1735 (9 Geo. 2. c. 5) in Great Britain comes into effect, criminalizing claimants accusing people of practising witchcraft or of possessing magical powers, intended to end legal witch trials in the early modern period in the country.[66]

July–September

  • July 1 – Russo-Turkish War (1735–39): Russian forces under Peter Lacy storm the Ottoman fortress of Azov. [67]
  • August 12 – A fire in Saint Petersburg, capital of the Russian Empire, destroys 2,000 buildings, the city's post office, and several palaces.[68]
  • September 7 – An Edinburgh crowd drags John Porteous out of his cell in Tolbooth Prison, and lynches him.
  • September 29 – The Gin Act 1736 goes into effect, placing a steep tax on the sale of gin and license requirements for its sale, with the intent of reducing consumption of the liquor in Britain. Widely ignored, the Act is repealed in 1743. [69]
  • September 30 – The Lebanese Council of 1736 begins, a major turning point in the reform of the Maronite Church. In the following three days, the assembled Maronite and Latin clergy presided by Yusuf ibn Siman as-Simani discuss various reforms and elaborate rules and canons.[70][71]

October–December

  • October 3 – French scientist Charles Marie de La Condamine and a team of surveyors begin the first measurements at the Equator to determine the exact meridian arc measurement of distance between points separated by one degree of longitude in order to make a precise calculation of the Earth's circumference. [72] The initial measurements of this French Geodesic Mission to the Equator, made in what is now Ecuador, last until November 3. The same year the French Geodesic Mission to Lapland took place. Both confirm Isaac Newton's prediction that the Figure of the Earth is flattened at the poles.
  • November 5 – King Theodore of Corsica flees the island after a reign of seven months and the kingdom reverts to Genoese control. [62]
  • November 13 – Word of the discovery of silver, south of what is now the U.S.-Mexican border, reaches Sonora Governor Juan Bautista Anza and soon leads to prospectors coming to Nogales to find more silver. [73] Late in October, a Yaqui Indian prospector, Antonio Siraumea, had discovered large slabs of silver ("Las planchas de plata"), and at the Estancia Arizona, a ranch owned by Captain Bernardo de Urrea. The region, and later the U.S. territory, and state of Arizona are named for Urrea's ranch.
  • December 7 – Benjamin Franklin builds the first volunteer fire company in Philadelphia.
  • December 26 – Andrew Michael Ramsay gives an oration, in which he relates the heritage and internationalism of Freemasonry to that of the Crusades.

Date unknown

  • Neustrelitz becomes the capital of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
  • Bushehr is founded in Persia.
  • The Belgrade Fortress is completed.
  • One of the earliest records of use of a bathing machine is made at Scarborough, England.
  • Charles Marie de La Condamine, with François Fresneau Gataudière, makes the first scientific observations of rubber, in Ecuador.[74]
  • Leonhard Euler produces the first published proof of Fermat's "little theorem".[75]
  • Sir Isaac Newton's Method of Fluxions (1671), describing his method of differential calculus, is first published (posthumously) and Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of its logical foundations (anonymously).[76]
  • Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab writes the Kitab at-tawhidt, marking the beginning of Wahhabism.
  • The Haidamakas raid the shtetl of Pavoloch, killing 35.

1737

January–March

April–June

  • April 5 – French Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII.
  • April 22
    • In Afghanistan, Persian shah Nader Shah begins the 11-month Siege of Kandahar against the Pashtun Emir of Afghanistan, Hussain Hotak.[83] The surviving Afghanis surrender on March 24, 1738.
    • Lots are first advertised for sale in the new town of Richmond, Virginia, by the placement of a notice by William Byrd in the Virginia Gazette. According to the paper, "... on the North Side of James River, near the Uppermost Landing, and a little below the Falls, is lately laid off by Major Mayo, a Town, called Richmond, with Streets 65 Feet wide, in a pleasant and healthy Situation, and well supply'd with Springs of good Water. It lies near the Publick Warehouse at Shoccoe's, and in the midst of great Quantities of Grain, and all kind of Provisions. The Lots will be granted in Fee Simple, on Condition only of building a House in Three Years Time, of 24 by 16 Feet, fronting within 5 Feet of the Street. The Lots to be rated according to the Convenience of their Situation, and to be sold after this April General Court, by me, William Byrd."[84]
  • May 28 – The planet Venus passes in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening hours, by the amateur astronomer John Bevis, at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed.
  • June 21 – In Britain, the Theatrical Licensing Act requires plays to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for censorship.
  • June 30 – Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces under Field Marshal Munnich storm the Ottoman fortress of Ochakov, and take prisoner 4,000 Turks.

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

1738

January–March

  • January 1 – At least 664 African slaves drown when the Dutch West Indies Company slave ship Leusden capsizes and sinks in the Maroni River during its arrival in Surinam. The Dutch crew escapes, and leaves the slaves locked below decks to die.[89]
  • January 3 – George Frideric Handel's opera Faramondo is given its first performance.[90]
  • January 7 – After the Maratha Empire of India wins the Battle of Bhopal over the Jaipur State, Jaipur cedes the Malwa territory to the Maratha in a treaty signed at Doraha.[91]
  • February 4 – Court Jew Joseph Süß Oppenheimer is executed in Württemberg.
  • February 11 – Jacques de Vaucanson stages the first demonstration of an early automaton, The Flute Player at the Hotel de Longueville in Paris, and continues to display it until March 30.[92]
  • February 20 – The Swedish Levant Company is founded.
  • March 28 – Mariner Robert Jenkins presents a pickled ear, which he claims was cut off by a Spanish captain in the Caribbean in 1731, to the Parliament of Great Britain, which votes, 257 to 209, for war against Spain, leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear the following year.[93]
  • March/April – Battle of the Dindar River: Emperor Iyasu II of Ethiopia is defeated by the Funj people.

April–June

July–September

  • July 1 – English metallurgist William Champion is granted a patent for his process of extracting zinc from other materials in a furnace.[99]
  • July 10 – Thomas Pellow of Cornwall finally escapes captivity, 23 years after having been captured by Barbary pirates and held as a slave in Morocco. He arrives in British territory when the ship he is on sails into Gibraltar Bay on July 21, and later recounts his story in the book The Adventures of Thomas Pellow, of Penryn, Mariner: Three and Twenty Years in Captivity Among the Moors.[100]
  • August 10 – Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739): The Russian army begins its attempt to cross the Dniester River and fails after three weeks; it is later decimated by plague.[101]
  • September 18 – Samuel Johnson composes his first solemn prayer (published 1785).

October–December

  • October 22 – The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins near the Italian city of Resina on orders from King Charles III of Spain to his engineer, Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre.[102]
  • November 18 – The Treaty of Vienna is ratified, ending the War of the Polish Succession. Under the terms of the treaty, Stanisław Leszczyński receives Lorraine in exchange for renouncing the Polish throne.
  • December 27 – After setting off from Rotterdam in August with 240 immigrants to America, the British ship Princess Augusta is wrecked near Block Island off of the coast of the colony of Rhode Island.[103] During the voyage, 200 passengers and seven crew die from illness spread by contaminated water. Another 20 die after the crew leaves and rows to shore. The wreck later becomes the subject of the legend of the "Palatine Light" ghost ship and of John Greenleaf Whittier's 1867 poem "The Palatine".

Date unknown

  • China's Qing government announces that all western businessmen have to use the Cohong in Guangzhou to trade.
  • Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which confirms Newton's view that the earth is an oblate spheroid, slightly flattened at the poles.
  • Black Forest clockmaker Franz Ketterer produces one of the earliest cuckoo clocks.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, having completed a law degree, is hired as a court musician by Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, the future Frederick the Great (Bach will remain in Frederick's service until 1768).
  • Holy Royal Arch is founded.
  • Rémy Martin is granted exclusive permission by King Louis XV to plant new vineyards, for impressing him with the quality of his cognac.[104]

1739

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

  • October 3 – The Treaty of Niš is signed.
  • October 12 – The town of Utuado, Puerto Rico was founded by Sebastian de Morfi.
  • October 17 – The Foundling Hospital is created in London by royal charter.
  • October 23 – War of Jenkins' Ear: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
  • November 20–22 – War of Jenkins' Ear – Battle of Porto Bello: British marine forces capture the Panamanian silver-exporting town of Portobelo from the Spanish.
  • December 30– Months of unseasonably cold weather begin in Ireland, precipitating the Irish Famine of 1740, known as Bliain an Áir ("The Year of Slaughter"). A January 5 dispatch from Dublin to the Stamford Mercury says "Since last Wednesday we have had the most violent cold Weather that was ever known in this Kingdom; hard Frost began that evening, which has continued ever since with a very stormy Wind at South-East."[111] At least 13% of Ireland's population dies of starvation in the year that follows.[112]

Date unknown

  • Ecuador, part of Real Audiencia of Quito, becomes a part of New Granada, instead of Peru.
  • 84,000 farmers revolt in the province of Iwaki in Japan.
  • A Plinian eruption of Mount Tarumae volcano occurs in Japan.
  • The first Bible in Estonian is published.

Births

1730

Henry Clinton

1731

Henry Cavendish

1732

George Washington
Jean-Bernard Restout

1733

Joseph Priestley

1734

Daniel Boone
  • November 2 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
  • December 1 – Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Polish aristocrat and patron of the arts (d. 1823)
  • December 17 – Queen Maria I of Portugal (d. 1816)
  • December 21 – Paul Revere, American silversmith, engraver, and Patriot in the American Revolution (d. 1818)
  • December 26 – George Romney, English painter (d. 1802)
  • December 31 – Francisco Manoel de Nascimento, Portuguese poet (d. 1819)
  • date unknown
    • Catharina Ahlgren, Swedish poet, editor and early feminist (d.1800)
    • Ulrica Arfvidsson, Swedish fortune teller (d. 1801)
    • Elżbieta Branicka, Polish szlachta and politician (d. 1800)
    • John Dawson, English mathematician and surgeon (d.1820)
    • Pedro Fages, Spanish soldier, explorer, and Governor of Alta California (d. 1794)
    • Rohal Faqir, Pakistani saint-poet and mystic (d.1804)

1735

John Adams

1736

Li Ching-Yuen
James Watt
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
  • August 9 – Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé (d. 1818)
  • August 15 – Alexander Runciman, Scottish painter (d. 1785)
  • August 26 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French geologist (d. 1790)
  • September 15 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer (d. 1793)
  • September 16 – Carter Braxton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1797)
  • October 27 – James Macpherson, Scottish poet (d. 1796)
  • date unknown
    • Robert Jephson, Irish dramatist (d. 1803)
    • Li Ching-Yuen, Chinese herbalist, martial artist and tactical advisor (d.1933) (claimed)
    • Pierre le Pelley I, Seigneur of Sark (d. 1778)
    • Claudius Smith, American revolutionary (d. 1779)
    • Sir James Tylney-Long, 7th Baronet, English politician (d. 1794)

1737

Thomas Paine

1738

William Herschel

1739

  • January 25 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
  • February 15 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813)
  • March 16 – George Clymer, American politician and Founding Father (d. 1813)
  • March 19 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)
  • August 31 – Johann Augustus Eberhard, German theologian, philosopher (d. 1809)
  • September 12 – Mary Bosanquet Fletcher, Methodist preacher and philanthropist (d. 1816)
  • October 11 – Grigory Potemkin, Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favourite of Catherine the Great (d. 1791)
  • November 2 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
  • November 8 – Henrik Gabriel Porthan, Finnish professor and historian (d. 1804)[124]
  • November 20 – Jean-François de La Harpe, French critic (d. 1803)
  • December 14 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French politician (d. 1817)
  • date unknown
    • Antonio Cachia, Maltese architect, engineer and archaeologist (d. 1813)
    • Bénédict Chastanier, French surgeon (d. 1816)
    • Margherita Dalmet, Venetian dogaressa (d. 1817)
    • Paul François Ignace de Barlatier de Mas, French naval captain (d. 1807)
    • Samuel Mason, Revolutionary War soldier, early American outlaw (d. 1803)
    • Karoline Kaulla, German banker (d. 1809)
    • Yelizaveta Belogradskaya, Russian singer and musician

Deaths

1730

Frederick IV

1731

Bartolomeo Cristofori

1732

Emperor Reigen
  • January 12 – John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. c.1685)
  • January 14 – Richard Hancorne, Welsh clergyman (b. 1687)
  • January 22 – Louis de Sabran, British theologian (b. 1652)
  • February 6 – Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wealthy Scottish peeress (b. 1651)
  • February 7 – William Hiseland, English (later British) soldier, reputed supercentenarian (b. 1620)
  • February 13 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)[134]
  • February 17 – Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
  • February 18 – Balthasar Permoser, German sculptor (b. 1651)
  • February 22
    • Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
    • Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, Princess of Conti and titular queen of Poland (b. 1666)
  • February 27 – Giacomo Serpotta, Italian artist (b. 1652)
  • February 28 – André Charles Boulle, French cabinet-maker (b. 1642)
  • March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)[135]
  • April 6 – Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order (b. 1664)
  • April 28 – Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (b. 1666)
  • May 20 – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
  • May 30 – John King, English churchman (b. 1652)
  • July 11 – Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (b. 1659)
  • July 15 – Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (b. c. 1679)
  • September 24 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
  • October 6 – George Duckett (Calne MP), English politician (b. 1684)
  • October 12 – Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz, Filipino saint (b. 1691)
  • October 25 – Andrea Brustolon, Italian artist (b. 1662)
  • October 31 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (b. 1666)
  • November 10 – Adam Christian Thebesius, German anatomist (b. 1686)
  • November 20 – Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, French naval officer, governor of Newfoundland (b. 1661)
  • November 21 – Jan Jansen Bleecker, Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1641)
  • November 26 – Charles Sergison, English politician (b. 1655)
  • December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685)[136]
  • December 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, German opera composer (b. 1652)
  • date unknown
    • Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter, calligrapher, encyclopedist, foreign diplomat to Japan (b. 1669)
    • Agrippina Petrovna Volkonskaia, politically active Russian lady-in-waiting

1733

  • January 17 – George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, English Royal Navy admiral (b. 1663)
  • January 21 – Bernard Mandeville, Dutch-born English economic philosopher (b. 1670)
  • January 22 – Lovisa von Burghausen, Swedish memoirist (b. 1698)
  • January 25 – Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)
  • January 27 – Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1668)
Augustus II the Strong

1734

  • January 6 – John Dennis, English dramatist, critic (b. 1658)
  • February 1 – John Floyer, English physician, writer (b. 1649)
  • February 2 – Charles Calvert, Maryland official (b. 1688)
  • February 9 – Diego de Astorga y Céspedes, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1663)
  • March 1 – Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
  • March 16 – Andreas Silbermann, German organ builder (b. 1678)
  • March 21 – Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
  • April 1 – Louis Lully, French composer (b. 1664)
  • April 11 – Thomas Fantet de Lagny, French mathematician (b. 1660)
  • April 25 – Johann Konrad Dippel, German alchemist (b. 1673)
  • May 4 – James Thornhill, English painter (b. 1675 or 1676)
  • May 15 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (b. 1659)
  • May 21 – Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, French princess (b. 1714)
  • May 24 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick

1735

Yongzheng Emperor

1736

Prince Eugene of Savoy
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit

1737

Antonio Stradivari

1738

  • January 6 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser, German composer and theorist (b. 1663)
  • January 24 – Samuel Andrew, American Congregational clergyman, educator (b. 1656)
  • January 27 – Marie Wulf, Danish pietist leader (b. 1685)
  • January 30 – Benoît de Maillet, French diplomat and natural historian (b. 1656)
  • February 9 – Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine, Abbess of Remiremont (b. 1662)
  • February 15 – Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
  • February 27 – Henry Grove, English nonconformist minister (b. 1684)
  • March 16 – George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666)
  • March 25 – Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
  • April 9 – Sir Charles Blois, 1st Baronet, English politician (b. 1657)
  • May 1 – Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman (b. c. 1669)
  • May 15 – Sir John Chesshyre, English lawyer (b. 1662)
  • June 5 – Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
  • June 21 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician (b. 1674)
  • July 8 – Jean-Pierre Nicéron, French encyclopedist (b. 1685)
  • July 28 – Heinrich, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (b. 1661)
Herman Boerhaave

1739

Dick Turpin
  • April 7 – Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1705)
  • April 19 – Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician (b. 1682)
  • May 10 – Cosmas Damian Asam, German painter and architect during the late Baroque period (b. 1686)
  • June 18 – Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Swedish nobleman (b. 1700)
  • June 20 – Edmond Martène, French Benedictine historian and liturgist (b. 1654)
  • July 24 – Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686)
  • September 8 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
  • September 12 – Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1667)
  • September 19 – Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne, French princess (b. 1722)
  • October 6 – Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, French noble (b. 1684)
  • October 18 – Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
  • November 14 – Juan de Galavís, Spanish Catholic archbishop (b. 1683)
  • November 16 – Harry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford, English peer (b. 1685)
  • date unknown – Anne Dodd, English news seller, pamphlet shop proprietor (b. 1685)

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