Explore 106 historical events from 1730–1739.
Lieutenant-Admiral Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Count of Doggerbank was a Dutch naval officer who served in the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. …
Jan Hendrik van Kinsbergen, Dutch admiral and philanthropist (died 1819)
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1st Baronet was a British painter and politician.
Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter and politician (died 1811)
Thomas Hearne or Hearn was an English diarist and prolific antiquary, particularly remembered for his published editions of many medieval English chronicles and other important his…
Thomas Hearne, English historian and author (born 1678)
Edwin Stead was a patron of English cricket, particularly of Kent and his own Edwin Stead's XI in the 1720s and early 1730s. He usually captained his teams, but nothing is known ab…
Edwin Stead, English landowner and cricketer (born 1701)
Freedom of the press or freedom of the media is the fundamental principle that communication and expression through various media, including printed and electronic media, especiall…
Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the…
Horace Coignet was a French amateur violinist, singer and composer. He was active in Lyons as a pattern-designer and dealer in embroidered goods, as an official clerk and as musica…
Horace Coignet, French violinist and composer (died 1821)
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the eighth-largest in North America. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it…
In Montreal, New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convic
Taksin the Great or the King of Thonburi was a Thai Chinese general who became the only King of Thonburi that ruled Siam from 1767 to 1782.
Taksin, King of Thailand (died 1782)
Johann Karl Rochus Ordonez, also known as Carlo d'Ordonez, was one of a number of composers working in Vienna during the second half of the eighteenth century. Ordonez was not a fu…
Karl von Ordóñez, Austrian violinist and composer (died 1786)
Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier was a celebrated French organist and composer.
Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French organist and composer (died 1794)
Dabayin Min, commonly known as Naungdawgyi, personal name Maung Lauk (မောင်လောက်), was the second king of Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar), from 1760 to 1763. He was a top milit…
Naungdawgyi, Burmese king (died 1763)
Sir James Thornhill was an English painter of historical subjects working in the Italian baroque tradition. He was responsible for some large-scale schemes of murals, including the…
James Thornhill, English painter and politician (born 1675)
Georg Ernst Stahl was a German chemist, physician and philosopher. He was a supporter of vitalism, and until the late 18th century his works on phlogiston were accepted as an expla…
Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (born 1660)
Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and in…
Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologer (died 1815)
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, 1st Duke of Liria and Jérica, 1st Duke of Fitz-James was a French-English army officer who was the eldest illegitimate son of James II of Engl…
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, French-English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire (born 1670)
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince of Martigues, Marquis then (1st) Duke of Villars, Viscount of Melun was a French military commander and an illustrious general of Louis XIV. …
Claude Louis Hector de Villars, French general and politician, French Secretary of State for War (born 1653)
Peter King, 1st Baron King,, commonly referred to as Lord King, was an English lawyer and politician, who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Peter King, 1st Baron King, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of England (born 1669)
New France was the territory colonized by France in mainland North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with …
The right of settlers in New France to enslave natives is upheld at Quebec City
The Military of the Ottoman Empire was the armed forces of the Ottoman Empire. It was founded in 1299 and dissolved in 1922.
The Ottoman army defeats the Iranian army under Nader Shah in the battle of Baghdad.
Freemasonry consists of fraternal groups that trace their origins to medieval guilds of stonemasons. Freemasonry is considered the oldest existing secular fraternal organisation, w…
The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda was a French mathematician, physicist, and Navy officer.
Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, and sailor (died 1799)
Hubert Robert was a French painter in the school of Romanticism, noted especially for his landscape paintings and capricci, or semi-fictitious picturesque depictions of ruins in It…
Hubert Robert, French painter (died 1808)
Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Shcherbatov was a leading ideologue and exponent of the Russian Enlightenment, on the par with Mikhail Lomonosov and Nikolay Novikov. His view of human …
Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (died 1790)
Jeremiah Dixon was an English surveyor and astronomer best known for surveying the Mason–Dixon Line with Charles Mason from 1763 to 1767. The Line came to mark the borders between …
Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (died 1779)