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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 5]] &ndash; The ''[[Journal des sçavans]]'' begins publication of the first scientific journal in France.
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Molière]]'s comedy ''[[Dom Juan|Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre]]'', based on the Spanish legend of the womanizer [[Don Juan|Don Juan Tenorio]] and [[Tirso de Molina]]'s Spanish play ''[[El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra]]'', premieres in [[Paris]] at the [[Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)|Théâtre du Palais-Royal]].
* [[February 21]] &ndash; In India, [[Shivaji|Shivaji Bhonsale]] of the Maratha Empire captures the English [[East India Company]]'s trading post at [[Sadashivgad]] (now located in the Indian state of [[Karnataka]]).  
* [[February]] &ndash; In England, [[Richard Lower (physician)|Dr. Richard Lower]] performs the first blood transfusion between animals.  According to his account to the Royal Society journal ''Philosophical Transactions'' in December, Dr. Lower "towards the end of February...  selected one dog of medium size, opened its jugular vein, and drew off blood, until its strength was nearly gone.  Then, to make up for the great loss of this dog by the blood of a second, I introduced blood from the cervical artery of a fairly large mastiff, which had been fastened alongside the first, until this latter animal showed it was overfilled by the inflowing blood."  <ref>"The history of peripheral intravenous catheters: How little plastic tubes revolutionized medicine", By A. M. Rivera, et al., ''Acta Anaesthesiologica Belgica 56'' (2005) p. 272-273</ref>
* [[March 4]] &ndash; The [[Second Anglo-Dutch War]] begins.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1735|title=Historical Events for Year 1735 &#124; OnThisDay.com|website=Historyorb.com|access-date=2016-08-14}}</ref>
* [[March 6]] &ndash; The ''[[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transactions]]'' of the [[Royal Society]] of London begins publication in England, the first scientific journal in English and the oldest to be continuously published.
* [[March 11]] &ndash; A new legal code is approved for the Dutch and English towns of New York, guaranteeing all Protestants the right to continue their religious observances unhindered.
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Bucharest]] allows Jews to settle in the city, in exchange for an annual tax of 16 guilders.