Explore 53 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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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)
Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney was an English courtier from the Villiers family and the reputed mistress of William III, King of England and Scotland, from 1680 until 1695.…
Elizabeth Hamilton, countess of Orkney (born 1657)
D. Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses, 1st Marquis of Abrantes, before 1718 titled 3rd Marquis of Fontes and 7th Count of Penaguião, was a Portuguese nobleman and diplomat.
Rodrigo Anes de Sá Almeida e Meneses, 1st Marquis of Abrantes, Portuguese diplomat (born 1676)
Georg Böhm was a German Baroque organist and composer. He is notable for his development of the chorale partita and for his influence on the young J. S. Bach.
Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (born 1661)
John Johnson was an English architect and surveyor to the county of Essex. He is best known for designing the Shire Hall, Chelmsford.
John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (died 1814)
Francesco Pasquale Ricci, was an Italian composer and violinist.
Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Italian violinist and composer (died 1817)
Hieronymus Joseph Franz de Paula Graf Colloredo von Wallsee und Melz was Prince-Bishop of Gurk from 1761 to 1772 and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1772 until 1803, when the pr…
Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, Austrian archbishop (died 1812)
Louis Éconches Feuillée was a French member of the Order of the Minims, explorer, astronomer, geographer and botanist.
Louis Feuillée, French astronomer, geographer, and botanist (born 1660)
Thomas Boston was a Scottish Presbyterian church leader, theologian and philosopher. Boston was successively schoolmaster at Glencairn, and minister of Simprin in Berwickshire, and…
Thomas Boston, Scottish author and educator (born 1676)
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, who was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined unti…
Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (died 1802)
Daniel Defoe was an English writer, journalist, merchant and spy. He is famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe (1719), Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress (1724)…
Daniel Defoe, English journalist, novelist, and spy (born 1660)
Johann Ludwig Bach was a German composer and violinist.
Johann Ludwig Bach, German violinist and composer (born 1677)
General Sir Henry Clinton, KB was a British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons of Great Britain between 1772 and 1795. He is best known for his service as …
Henry Clinton, English general and politician (died 1795)
Antonín Kammel was a Bohemian composer and violinist of the Classical period. He is known for his instrumental works composed primarily for strings, though he did compose a few si…
Antonín Kammel, Czech violinist and composer (died 1788)