Explore 126 historical events from 1730–1739.
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)
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)
Nicolas Bernier was a French Baroque composer.
Nicolas Bernier, French composer (born 1664)
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)
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.
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)
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.
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)
George Read was an American politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. He was a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convent…
George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Delaware (died 1798)
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)
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer was a Swiss physician and natural scientist born in Zürich. His most famous work was the Physica sacra in four volumes, which was a commentary on the Bible …
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (born 1672)
Matthew Tindal was an eminent English deist author. His works, highly influential at the dawn of the Enlightenment, caused great controversy and challenged the Christian consens…
Matthew Tindal, English philosopher and author (born 1657)
François Couperin was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist. He was known as Couperin le Grand to distinguish him from other members of the musically talented Coup…
François Couperin, French organist and composer (born 1668)
Lieutenant-General James Edward Oglethorpe was a British army officer, Tory politician and colonial administrator best known for founding the Province of Georgia in British North A…
James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U
Campo Maior, officially the Loyal and Valorous Town of Campo Maior, is a municipality in the Portalegre District, Alentejo Region, Portugal. The population in 2011 was 8,456, in an…
In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two-thirds of its inhabitants.
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)