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== Events == <onlyinclude> === January–March === * [[January 2]] – [[Alexander Pope]]'s poem ''[[Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot]]'' is published in [[London]].<ref>Dated 1734. {{cite book|editor-last=Cox|editor-first=Michael|title=The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2004|isbn=0-19-860634-6}}</ref> * [[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 ''[['t Vliegend Hert|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.<ref>[https://www.sedwickcoins.com/shipwreck_histories/vliegenthart.htm Daniel Frank Sedwick Auctioneers]</ref> * [[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]] (now Indonesia) upon the death of [[Dirck van Cloon]]. === April–June === * [[April 13]] – [[Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan|Emperor Sakuramachi]] accedes to the throne of [[Japan]]. * [[April 16]] – ''[[Alcina]]'', [[George Frideric Handel]]'s Italian [[opera]], premieres at the [[Royal Opera House]] in [[Covent Garden]], London. * [[May 22]] – [[George Hadley]] publishes the first explanation of the [[trade winds]].<ref>''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]]'' (London) '''39''': 58–62.</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|first=Anita|last=McConnell|title=Hadley, George (1685–1768)|year=2004|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11858|access-date=2011-09-27|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/11858 }} </ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Hutchinson Factfinder|publisher=Helicon|year=1999|isbn=1-85986-000-1}}</ref> * [[June 15]] – [[Lê Thuần Tông]], [[Vietnam|Emperor of Đại Việt]] since 1732, dies at the age of 36 and is succeeded by [[Lê Ý Tông]].<ref>{{cite book |first1=Bruce M. |last1=Lockhart |first2=William J. |last2=Duiker |author-link2=William J. Duiker |title=The A to Z of Vietnam |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |year=2010 |page=437}}</ref> * [[June 25]] – In Great Britain, the [[Engraving Copyright Act 1734]], the first of a series of [[List of Copyright Acts#United Kingdom|copyright protection laws]], takes effect after being given royal assent by King George II.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Technology and Copyright in 1735: The Engraver's Act |first=Mark |last=Rose |journal=[[The Information Society]] |date=January–March 2005 |volume=21 |pages=63–66|doi=10.1080/01972240590895928 |s2cid=9859369 }}</ref> === July–September === * [[July 11]] – [[Pluto]] (not known at this time) enters a fourteen-year period inside the [[orbit]] of [[Neptune]], which will not recur until [[1979]]. * [[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 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]] (now [[Tunisia]]) is defeated at the Battle of Smindja by [[Abu l-Hasan Ali I]] with the help of Ibrahim ben Ramdan, the [[List of Ottoman governors of Algiers|Dey of Algiers]]. * [[September 14]] – The Kingdom of France approves the issue of "[[card money]]" in the total amount of 200,000 [[French colonial livre|livres]] to serve as currency in its [[Louisiana (New France)|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 of Poland|Augustus III]], a preliminary peace is signed that was ratified in [[1738]] as the [[Treaty of Vienna (1738)|Treaty of Vienna]]. By the terms of the treaty, Stanisław Leszczyński renounced his claim on the Polish throne and recognized [[Augustus III of Poland|Augustus III]], Duke of Saxony. As compensation he received instead the duchies of [[Lorraine]] and [[Duchy of Bar|Bar]] which were to pass to France upon his death. * [[October 14]] – [[John Wesley]] and his [[Charles Wesley|brother Charles]] set sail from England for [[Savannah, Georgia|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 Emperor|Qianlong]] succeeds his father, [[Yongzheng Emperor|Yongzheng]], as Emperor and begins a 60-year-long reign within the [[Qing dynasty]]. * [[November 25]] – The largest bell in the world, the {{convert|22|foot}} diameter [[Tsar Bell|Tsar Kolokol]], is successfully cast in [[Moscow]] within the [[Kremlin]].<ref>{{cite book |first=Edward V. |last=Williams |title=The Bells of Russia: History and Technology |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |year=2014 |page=151}}</ref> * [[November 30]] – The Netherlands becomes the first government to announce a prohibition against citizens joining the Freemasons.<ref>"Ritual as a Source of Conflict", by Robert Langer, et al., in ''Ritual, Media, and Conflict'', by Ronald L. Grimes (Oxford University Press, 2011) p98</ref> * [[December 6]] – The second successful [[appendectomy]] is performed by naturalised British surgeon [[Claudius Amyand (surgeon)|Claudius Aymand]] at [[St George's Hospital]] in London (the first was in [[1731]]).<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hutchinson |first=R. |title=Amyand's hernia |journal=[[Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine]] |date=February 1993 |volume=86 |issue=2 |pages=104–105 |pmc=1293861 |pmid=8433290}}</ref> * [[December 19]] – At the age of 8 years old, [[Luis of Spain, Count of Chinchón|Prince Luis of Spain]] becomes the youngest [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)|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 [[Crimean Peninsula|Crimea]], due to [[rasputitsa]]. * [[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]] publishes his ''[[Systema Naturae]]''. * A shipbuilding industry begins in [[Mumbai]]. * [[Leonhard Euler]] solves the [[Basel problem]], first posed by [[Pietro Mengoli]] in [[1644 in science|1644]], and the [[Seven Bridges of Königsberg]] problem. * The [[King's Highway (Charleston to Boston)]] is completed. * [[Timeline of Quebec history (1663 to 1759)|Quebec]]: Construction begins on the ''Chemin du roy'' between [[Quebec City|Quebec]] and [[Montreal]]. * [[Augusta, Georgia]], is founded. * [[Cobalt]] is discovered and isolated by [[Georg Brandt]].</onlyinclude> * Founded by Jehan-Jacques Blancpain in Villeret, Switzerland, [[Blancpain]] becomes the first registered watch brand in the world. <ref> "History - Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie". www.hautehorlogerie.org</ref>
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