Explore 95 historical events from 1730–1739.
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)
Giuseppe Demachi was a composer born in Alessandria, Kingdom of Sardinia. He served as a leading violinist in the city of his birth and later in the city of Geneva with the Concert…
Giuseppe Demachi, Italian violinist and composer (died 1791)
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)
Joaquim Machado de Castro was one of Portugal's foremost sculptors. He wrote extensively on his works and the theory behind them, including a full-length discussion of the statue o…
Joaquim Machado de Castro, Portuguese sculptor (died 1822)
Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan was a Royal Navy officer who served in the Seven Years' War, American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He …
Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, Scottish-English admiral (died 1804)
Samuel Huntington was a Founding Father of the United States and a lawyer, jurist, statesman, and Patriot in the American Revolution from Connecticut. As a delegate to the Continen…
Samuel Huntington, American jurist and politician, 18th governor of Connecticut (died 1796)
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)
The 1730 Valparaíso earthquake occurred at 04:45 local time on July 8. It had an estimated magnitude of 9.1–9.3 and triggered a major tsunami with an estimated magnitude of Mt 8.75…
An estimated magnitude 8.7 earthquake causes a tsunami that damages more than 1,000 km (620 mi) of Chile's coastline.
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)
Vice-Admiral Sir Joshua Rowley, 1st Baronet was a Royal Navy officer who was the fourth son of Admiral Sir William Rowley. Sir Joshua was from an ancient English family, originatin…
Joshua Rowley, English admiral (died 1790)
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, styled The Honourable Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1739, Viscount Higham between 1739 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746…
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (died 1782)
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia was a Prussian prince and general, as well as Herrenmeister of the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Order of Saint John. He belonged to the Hous…
Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Prussian prince and general (died 1813)
William Jackson, referred to as Jackson of Exeter, was an English organist and composer.
Jackson of Exeter, English organist and composer (died 1803)
Antonio Maria Gasparo Gioacchino Sacchini was an Italian classical era composer, best known for his operas.
Antonio Sacchini, Italian composer and educator (died 1786)
Motoori Norinaga was a Japanese scholar of Kokugaku active during the Edo period. He is conventionally ranked as one of the Four Great Men of Kokugaku (nativist) studies.
Motoori Norinaga, Japanese poet and scholar (died 1801)
Charles Messier was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred…
Charles Messier, French astronomer and academic (died 1817)
Josiah Wedgwood was an English potter, entrepreneur and abolitionist. Founding the Wedgwood company in 1759, he developed improved pottery bodies by systematic experimentation, and…
Josiah Wedgwood, English potter, founded the Wedgwood Company (died 1795)
François de Troy was a French painter and engraver who became principal painter to King James II in exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Director of the Académie Royale de peinture e…
François de Troy, French painter and engraver (born 1645)
Olivier Levasseur, was a French pirate, nicknamed La Buse or La Bouche or in his early days for the speed and ruthlessness with which he always attacked his enemies as well as his …
Olivier Levasseur, French pirate (born 1690)
François de Neufville, 2nd Duke of Villeroy was a French Royal Army officer and nobleman.
François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, French general (born 1644)