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Events
16 April - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
August 4 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
October - War of the Polish Succession concludes a preliminary peace, ratified in 1738
Battle of Trepani in the War of the Polish Succession
French make peace with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (until 1740)
Ship building industry begins in Mumbai
Carolus Linnaeus publishes his System of Nature
End of the reign of Emperor Nakamikado of Japan
Emperor Sakuramachi ascends to the throne of Japan
Euler-Maclaurin formula developed
George Hadley correctly explains global circulation for the first time
King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) is completed
Etienne Fourmont writes Réflexions critiques sur les histoires des anciens peuples
The Qianlong Emperor succeeds Yongzheng and begins a 60-year-long reign of the Qing Dynasty.
Construction begins on the Chemin du roy between Quebec and Montreal
William Hogarth Publishes "A Rakes Progress"
Edmund Curll tries to publish "Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence" The stock of which is subsequently seized
Augusta, Georgia is founded
Births
January 1 - Paul Revere (silversmith, United States patriot).
January 8 - John Carroll First Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S.
February 28 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist
May 1 - Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Spanish Jesuit and philologist
October 9 - Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick
October 21 - Richard Gough English antiquary
October 30 - John Adams, later 2nd President of the United States.
November 10 - Granville Sharp English abolitionist
December 29 - Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist
December 31 - Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer (+ 1813)
Freidrich Wilhelm, illegitimate son of Frederick I of Sweden
Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne
Étienne Clavière French Financier & Politician
Thomas Twisleton, 13th Baron Saye and Sele
James Beattie, Scottish author
Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton
William Gordon, 18th Earl of Sutherland
George Bussy Child-Villiers, 4th Earl of Jersey
George de La Poer Beresford, 1st Marquess of Waterford
James Keir Geologist, Chemist, Industrialist
Johann Schobert German composer
Johann Christian Bach 11th son of Johann Sebastian Bach
Charles Bingham, 1st Earl of Lucan
John Julius Angerstein London merchant and underwriter of Lloyd's of London
Deaths
Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington
James Lyon, 7th Earl of Kinghorne
Charles Stuart, 6th Earl of Moray
Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
Yongzheng Emperor of China
January 12 - John Eccles British composer
January 18 - Maria Clementina Sobieski Polish princess
February 27 - John Arbuthnot, British physician and author
June 10 - Thomas Hearne, British antiquary
September 27 - Peter Artedi Swedish naturalist, known as the "Father of Icthyology"
December 14 - Thomas Tanner (bishop) British antiquary and prelate
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