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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s
Years: 1730 1731 1732 1733 1734 - 1735 - 1736 1737 1738 1739 1740
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
Year in topic
Births
- 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
Deaths
- 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
Monarchs/Presidents
- 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)
