Editing 1731 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 1]] &ndash; [[Battle of Dabhoi]] in India is fought between Sarsenapati Trimbakrao Dabhade and Bajirao Peshwa.
* [[April 2]] &ndash; The town of [[Raynham, Massachusetts]] in Bristol County is entered as a new town by the governor and court of [[Province of Massachusetts Bay|Massachusetts]], New England, America.
* [[April 9]] &ndash; British trader [[Robert Jenkins (master mariner)|Robert Jenkins]] has his ear cut off after his ship, ''Rebecca'' is boarded by [[Spain|Spanish]] coast guards at [[Havana]] in [[Cuba]].<ref>"List of British Merchant Ships, taken or plundered by the Spaniards", ''The Political State for the Month of April, 1738 of Great Britain'' (April 30, 1738) p322.</ref> The incident becomes the ''[[casus belli]]'' for the [[War of Jenkins' Ear]] in [[1739]].<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/303|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/303 303]}}</ref>
* [[April 28]] &ndash; A fire at [[White's]] Chocolate House, near St. James's Palace in London, destroys the historic club and the paintings therein, but is kept from spreading by the fast response of firemen.<ref name=Fires>"Fires, Great", in ''The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance'', Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p49 </ref>
* [[May 10]] &ndash; The [[Pacific Fleet (Russia)|Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy]] is established by order of the [[Empress of Russia|Empress]] [[Anna of Russia]], who directs Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev to assume command over the new fleet and to develop [[Okhotsk]] as a major port.<ref>Hubert Howe Bancroft, ''History of Alaska, 1730-1865'' (A. L. Bancroft & Co., 1886) p45</ref><ref> Orcutt Frost, ''Bering: The Russian Discovery of America'' (Yale University Press, 2003) p67</ref> 
* [[June 4]] &ndash; The English market town of [[Blandford Forum]] is destroyed by fire, with the exception of 26 houses. About one-third of the uninsured losses are paid for by the collection of disaster relief money.<ref name=Fires/>