Explore 163 historical events from 1730–1739.
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state located in the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borde…
A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange o
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful m…
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (died 1814)
George III was King of Great Britain and Ireland from 25 October 1760 until his death in 1820. The Acts of Union 1800 unified Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom of G…
George III of the United Kingdom (died 1820)
Mary Katharine Goddard was an early American publisher, and the postmaster of the Baltimore Post Office from 1775 to 1789. She was the older sister of William Goddard, also a publi…
Mary Katherine Goddard, American publisher (died 1816)
Jacques Delille was a French poet who came to national prominence with his translation of Virgil’s Georgics and made an international reputation with his didactic poem on gardening…
Jacques Delille, French poet and translator (died 1813)
Divisional-General Jacques François Coquille, known as Dugommier was a French Army officer who served in the Seven Years' War, American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary W…
Jacques François Dugommier, French general (died 1794)
Leopold Hofmann was an Austrian composer of classical music.
Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1793)
Nicholas Van Dyke was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He served in the Delaware General Assembly, in the Contine…
Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and politician, 7th Governor of Delaware (died 1789)
Benjamin West was an American-born British painter who specialised in history painting, creating such works as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris,…
Benjamin West, American painter (died 1820)
John Singleton Copley was an American-born British painter active in both the Thirteen Colonies and England. He is believed to have been born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts B…
John Singleton Copley, American painter (died 1815)
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria was the second child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. As a child, and for a time the eldest surv…
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (died 1789)
Arthur Phillip was a Royal Navy officer who served as the first governor of the Colony of New South Wales.
Arthur Phillip, English admiral and politician, 1st Governor of New South Wales (died 1814)
Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, PC was a British nobleman, peer, and statesman.
Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English politician, First Lord of the Treasury (born 1669)
Isaac de Beausobre was a French Protestant churchman, now best known for his two-volume history of Manichaeism, Histoire Critique de Manichée et du Manichéisme.
Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor and theologian (born 1659)
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)
Herman Boerhaave was a Dutch chemist, botanist, Christian humanist, and physician. He is sometimes regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital …
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (born 1668)
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
The Walking Purchase, also known as the Walking Treaty, was a 1737 agreement between the family of William Penn, the original proprietor of the Province of Pennsylvania, and the Le…
The Walking Purchase concludes, which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,900 km2) of Lenape-Delaware tribal…
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)
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)
Luigi Galvani was an Italian physician, physicist, biologist and philosopher who studied animal electricity. In 1780, using a frog, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' le…
Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (died 1798)