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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s
Years: 1731 1732 1733 1734 1735 - 1736 - 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741
Events
- January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne.
- february 12 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor weds Maria Theresa, mother of Marie Antoinette
- May 8 - Marriage of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
- May 26 - Battle of Ackia: British and Chickasaw Native Americans defeat French troops.
- A French expedition led by Pierre Louis Maupertuis is sent by King Louis XV to Lapland to measure the length of a degree of the meridian, and proves that the Earth is flattened at the poles
- Real Arissona, namesake of the U.S. state Arizona is founded in what is now that state.
- Isaac Newton Publishes his Method of Fluxions
- Thomas Bayes publishes a defense of Isaac Newton's calculus
- Leonhard Euler solves the mathematical problem known as theseven bridges of Königsberg
- Anna I Empress of Russia, attacks Turkey
- Frederick, Prince of Wales weds Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
- Neustrelitz Becomes the capital of Mecklinberg - Sterlitz
- Genbun era begins in Japan
- George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney becomes the first Field Marshal of great Britain
- Bushehr is founded in Persia
- British Witchcraft Act is reformed, eliminating capital punishment for Witches, and instituting fines and jail time for claiming to be a witch or sorcerer
- First recorded use of a Bathing machine
- The Belgrade fortress is completed
- The era of Kyoho Reforms end in Japan
- The english town of Stony Stratford is almost completely consumed by fire
- Porteous Riots occur in Edinburgh Scotland
Year in topic
Births
- January 7 - Andrew Adams Chief justice of the Connecticut supreme court
- January 19 - James Watt, builder of steam engines
- January 29 - Joseph Louis Lagrange Italian mathematician
- February 3 - Johann Georg Albrechtsberger Austrian musician
- February 29 - Ann Lee, Shaker leader
- May 10 - George Steevens English Shakespereian commentator
- May 29 - Patrick Henry, American patriot
- June 7 - Fermín Lasuén Spanish missionary to America
- June 14 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb French Physicist
- June 21 - Enoch Poor Brigadier General in the Continental Army
- June 25 - John Horne Tooke English politician and philologist.
- September 10 - Carter Braxton Signer of the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Virginia.
- September 15 - Jean Sylvain Bailly French astronomer
- October 27 - James Macpherson Scottish poet
- Arthur St. Clair (b. sometime between 1734 & 1736) 9th President of the United States under the Articles of Confederation
- Edward Waring British mathematician
- Juan Bautista de Anza Governor of the Spanish Province of New Mexico
- Antonio de León y Gama called "the first mexican archeologist"
- Pierre le Pelley I Seigneur of Sark
- John Francis Edward Acton Prime minister of Naples
- Alexander Runciman Scottish painter
- Daniel Morgan American pioneer, soldier, and Congressman from Virginia. He was a Brigadier General in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War
- Robert Jephson Irish dramatist
- Archibald Erskine, 7th Earl of Kellie
- John Stewart, 7th Earl of Galloway
- William Jerningham, 7th Baron Stafford
- James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby, 6th Baron Strange
- Charles Agar, 1st Earl of Normanton
- James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale
- Peter King, 6th Baron King
- Anthony Preston, 11th Viscount Gormanston
- William Willoughby Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen
Deaths
- February 7 - Stephen Gray First person to systematically experiment with electrical conduction
- March 16 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer
- April 24 - Eugene of Savoy Noted French general
- September 16 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, inventor
- Ahmed III sultan of the Ottoman Empire
- Johann Albert Fabricius German scholar and bibliographer
- James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby
- Captain John Porteous Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh during the riots of 1736
- Thomas Fane, 6th Earl of Westmorland
- Alexander Lindsay, 4th Earl of Balcarres
- William Byron, 4th Baron Byron
- Alexander Murray, 4th Lord Elibank
- Richard Butler, 7th Viscount Mountgarret
- Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd
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)
- Persia - Nadir Shah Ruled 1736-1747
- Isle of Man - James Murray 1736-1765
