Explore 106 historical events from 1730–1739.
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, was a British Whig statesman. From 1714 to 1717, and again from 1721 to 1730, he served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department…
Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (born 1674)
The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren, formally the Unitas Fratrum, is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation o…
At a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate, London, John Wesley (pictured) experienced a spiritual rebirth, leading him to laun
William Petty Fitzmaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, known as the Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Anglo-Irish Whig…
William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1805)
Edward Gibbon was a British essayist, historian and minor politician. His most important and influential work, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, was publishe…
Edward Gibbon, English historian and politician (died 1794)
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, was a British diplomat, politician and colonial administrator who served as the governor of Grenada, Madras and the Cape Colony. He is often r…
George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, Irish-English politician and diplomat, Governor of Grenada (died 1806)
Tokugawa Ieharu was the tenth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, and held office from 1760 to 1786.
Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese shōgun (died 1786)
Anton Pavlovich Losenko was a Russian neoclassical painter and academician who specialized in historical subjects and portraits. He was one of the founders of the Imperial Russian …
Anton Losenko, Russian painter and academic (died 1773)
Eustace Budgell was an English writer and politician.
Eustace Budgell, English journalist and politician (born 1686)
Mathieu Marais was a French jurist and lawyer at the Parlement of Paris. He is later known by the edition of his Journal and Memoirs by Mathurin de Lescures.
Matthieu Marais, French author, critic, and jurist (born 1664)
Gian Gastone de' Medici was the seventh and last Medicean grand duke of Tuscany.
Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (born 1671)
Patrick Henry was an American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty or give me death!" A Founding Father, he served…
Patrick Henry, American lawyer and politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (died 1799)
The Chickasaw Campaign of 1736, also known as the First Chickasaw War, consisted of two pitched battles by the French and allies against Chickasaw fortified villages in present-day…
The Battle of Ackia is fought near the present site of Tupelo, Mississippi
Ignaz Fränzl was a German violinist, composer and representative of the second generation of the so-called Mannheim School. Mozart, who heard him at a concert in November 1777, wro…
Ignaz Fränzl, German violinist and composer (died 1811)
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French officer, engineer, and physicist. He is best known as the eponymous discoverer of what is now called Coulomb's law, the description of the …
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer (died 1806)
Old Style (O.S.) and New Style (N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gr…
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Daniel Morgan was an American pioneer, soldier, and politician from Virginia. One of the most respected battlefield tacticians of the American Revolutionary War of 1775–1783, he la…
Daniel Morgan, American general and politician (died 1802)
Johann Christoph Kellner was a German organist and composer. He was the son of Johann Peter Kellner.
Johann Christoph Kellner, German organist and composer (died 1803)
Jean-Baptiste Louis Romé de l'Isle was a French mineralogist, considered one of the creators of modern crystallography.
Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French mineralogist and geologist (died 1790)
Prince Eugene Francis of Savoy-Carignano, better known as Prince Eugene, was a distinguished feldmarschall in the Army of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty…
Prince Eugene of Savoy (born 1663)
Johann Albert Fabricius was a German classical scholar and bibliographer.
Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and author (born 1668)
Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real was an accomplished Portuguese diplomat and statesman, and Secretary of State to King Peter II and John V.
Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese judge and politician (born 1658)
Ahmed III was sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of sultan Mehmed IV. His mother was Gülnuş Sultan, originally named Evmania Voria, who was an ethnic Greek. He was born at Hacı…
Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (born 1673)
The Guarded Domains of Iran, commonly called Safavid Iran, Safavid Persia or the Safavid Empire, was one of the largest and longest-lasting Iranian empires. It was ruled by the Saf…
Safavid Iran captures Ganja from the Ottoman Empire after defeating them in the battle of Yeghevārd.
A dwarf planet is a small planetary-mass object that is in direct orbit around the Sun, massive enough to be gravitationally rounded, but insufficient to achieve orbital dominance …
Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for…