Editing 1734 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash; March ===
* [[January 8]] &ndash; Salzburgers, [[Lutheranism|Lutherans]] who were expelled by the [[Roman Catholic]] [[Bishop]] of [[Salzburg]], [[Austria]], in October [[1731]], set sail for the [[British Colony]] of [[Province of Georgia|Georgia]] in [[North America|America]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1734 |title=Historical Events for Year 1734 &#124; OnThisDay.com |website=Historyorb.com |access-date=2016-06-21}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] &ndash; 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 [[Treaty of Vienna (1731)|Second Treaty of Vienna]].  
* [[March 12]] &ndash; Salzburgers arrive at the mouth of the [[Savannah River]] in the British [[Province of Georgia|Colony of Georgia]]. 
=== April&ndash;June ===  
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[Easter]] occurs on the latest possible date (the next time is in [[1886]]).
* [[May 15]] &ndash; [[Charles III of Spain|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]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; French and Swiss troops suppress the [[1733 slave insurrection on St. John|slave insurrection in the Danish West Indies]] on the island of [[Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands|Saint John]] (part of the modern-day [[U.S. Virgin Islands]]) after six months and restore control of the plantations to the Danish owners.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=St. John Revolt (1733)|first=Lori|last=Lee|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Slave Resistance and Rebellion|editor-first=Junius P.|editor-last=Rodriguez|editor-link=Junius P. Rodriguez|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=2007|page=435}}</ref>
* [[June 6]] &ndash; With the conclusion of the [[1734 British general election|British general election]] (voting having begun in some constituencies on [[April 22]]), the [[Whigs (British political party)|Whigs]], led by Prime Minister [[Robert Walpole]], lose 85 seats but retain their majority.
* [[June 17]] &ndash; French troops take [[Philippsburg]], but the [[James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick|Duke of Berwick]] is killed.
* [[June 21]] &ndash; In [[Montreal]], [[New France]], a black slave known by the French name of [[Marie-Joseph Angélique]] is [[torture]]d then [[hanging|hanged]] by the [[France|French]] authorities for allegedly setting a fire that destroyed part of the city.
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[War of the Polish Succession]]: [[Russia]]n troops take [[Siege of Danzig (1734)|Gdańsk]] ([[Germanic language|German]]: Danzig), which had been besieged since [[February]] 1734, after the failure of a [[France|French]] expedition to relieve the city.

=== July&ndash;September===
* [[July 18]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Philippsburg (1734)|Siege of the Austrian fortress of Philippsburg]] (near Karlsruhe, Germany) by the French Army, ends after eight weeks as its Austrian defenders surrender.   
* [[August 6]] &ndash; The armies of Spain and France, led by [[Charles III of Spain|the Duke of Parma]] (and future King Charles III of Spain) storm the city of [[Gaeta]] in [[Naples]], ending a [[Siege of Gaeta (1734)|four-month siege]].
* [[September 28]] &ndash; [[Abdallah of Morocco|Abdu'llah bin Ismail as-Samin]] is deposed after a 15-year reign as [[Sultan of Morocco]].

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[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 (Jamaica)|Blue Mountains]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Edward B. |last=Rugemer |title=Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World |publisher=[[Harvard University Press]] |year=2018 |page=145}}</ref> (→ [[First Maroon War]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; 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 (1727)|HMS ''Aldborough'']] after completing the visit by the largest delegation of Native Americans since 1616.<ref>{{cite book |first=Jace |last=Weaver |title=The Red Atlantic American Indigenes and the Making of the Modern World, 1000-1927 |publisher=[[University of North Carolina Press]] |year=2014 |page=20}}</ref> 
* [[November 5]] &ndash; The [[Dzików Confederation]] is created in Poland.
* [[December 24]] &ndash; 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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=BlackPast|title=Global African History Timeline •|url=https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history-timeline/|access-date=2021-09-01|language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[Anton Wilhelm Amo]] becomes the first African to receive a doctorate in Europe and begins teaching at the [[University of Halle]].<ref name=":0" /></onlyinclude>