Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s

Years: 1730 1731 1732 1733 1734 - 1735 - 1736 1737 1738 1739 1740

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Monarchs/Presidents

Events

• 16 April - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
• August 4 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
• October - War of the Polish Succession concludes a preliminary peace, ratified in 1738
• Battle of Trepani in the War of the Polish Succession
• French make peace with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (until 1740)
• Ship building industry begins in Mumbai
• Carolus Linnaeus publishes his System of Nature
• End of the reign of Emperor Nakamikado of Japan
• Emperor Sakuramachi ascends to the throne of Japan
• Euler-Maclaurin formula developed
• George Hadley correctly explains global circulation for the first time
• King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) is completed
• Etienne Fourmont writes Rfiexions critiques sur les histoires des anciens peuples
• Construction begins on the Chemin du roy between Quebec and Montreal
• William Hogarth Publishes "A Rakes Progress"
• Edmund Curll tries to publish "Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence" The stock of which is subsequently seized
• Augusta, Georgia is founded
• Biliran becomes a separate province in the Phillipines

• 1735 in literature
• 1735 in science

• January 1 - Paul Revere (silversmith, United States patriot).
• January 8 - John Carroll First Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S.
• February 28 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist
• May 1 - Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Spanish Jesuit and philologist
• October 9 - Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick
• October 21 - Richard Gough English antiquary
• October 30 - John Adams, later 2nd President of the United States.
• November 10 - Granville Sharp English abolitionist
• December 29 - Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist
• December 31 - Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer (+ 1813)
• Freidrich Wilhelm, illegitimate son of Frederick I of Sweden
• Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne
• Étienne Clavière French Financier & Politician
• Thomas Twisleton, 13th Baron Saye and Sele
• James Beattie Scottish author
• Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
• William Gordon, 18th Earl of Sutherland
• George Bussy Child-Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey
• George de La Poer Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford
• James Keir Geologist, Chemist, Industrialist
• Johann Schobert German composer
• Johann Christian Bach 11th son of Johann Sebastian Bach
• Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan
• John Julius Angerstein London merchant and underwriter of Lloyd's of London

• Lady Diana Spencer
• Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington
• James Lyon, 7th Earl of Kinghorne
• Charles Stuart, 6th Earl of Moray
• Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
• Yongzheng Emperor of China
• January 12 - John Eccles English composer
• January 18 - Maria Clementina Sobieski Polish princess
• February 27 - John Arbuthnot, British physician and author
• June 10 - Thomas Hearne, English antiquary
• September 27 - Peter Artedi Swedish naturalist, known as the "Father of Icthyology"
• December 14 - Thomas Tanner (bishop) English antiquary and prelate

• China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796)
• France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774)
• Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760)
• Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland)
• New York City- Paul Richard Appointed? Mayor of New York 1735-1739
• Venice - Alvise Pisani Doge of Venice 1735-1741
• Japan - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (reigned 1735-1747)
• Tunis - Ali I (reigned 1735-1756)