Explore 126 historical events from 1730–1739.
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)
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)
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…
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)
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)
Johann Michael Haydn was an Austrian composer of the Classical period and the younger brother of Joseph Haydn.
Michael Haydn, Austrian singer and composer (died 1806)
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)