1730 to 1739

1730

x - |Russia ?+| Peter II + of Russia dies of smallpox and Anna +, the niece of Peter The Great +, becomes Empress. [u.1740] [re.List of Tsars]
x - Baltimore is founded in the Maryland colony.
x - Clement XII + becomes pope ?+ [u.1740] [re.List of Popes]

1731

x - The first American public library is founded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin ?*+.

1732

feb 22 - George Washington + is born in Virginia.
feb - |PHILADELPHIA| The first mass is celebrated in the only Catholic church in colonial America.
jun - Georgia, the 13th English colony, is founded.
x - Benjamin Franklin ?*+ publishes Poor Richard's Almanac selling nearly 10,000 copies per year. [u.1757]

1733

x - John Kay invents flying shuttle loom.
x - After Augustus II dies, his son (Augustus III) is elected ruler of Poland.
x - The Molasses Act, passed by the English Parliament, imposes heavy duties on molasses, rum and sugar imported from non-British islands in the Caribbean to protect the English planters there from French and Dutch competition.

1734

nov - New York newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger is arrested and accused of seditious libel by the Governor.
dec - The Great Awakening religious revival movement begins in Massachusetts. The movement will spread to all of the American colonies. [u.1744]

1735

x - French scientist, La Codamine [b.1701 d.1774] is sent to Peru to measure one degree on the surface of the Earth, when he discovers rubber.
x - John Peter Zenger is brought to trial for seditious libel [s.1734] but is acquitted after his lawyer successfully convinces the jury that truth is a defense against libel.

1736

x - Russo-Turkey war.
x - Nadir Shah, the last great Persian conqueror drove the Afghans from Iran and became king.
x - Qian Long [chee-ehn-l~ung] rules [u.1795] China at greatest extent

1737

x - |CONNECTICUT| The first colonial copper coins are minted.

1738

x - La Codamine returns to France.

1739

x - Russo-Turkish war ends (temporarily).
x - War of Jenkin's Ear commences between Great Britain and Spain. As a result, in America, hostilities break out between Florida Spaniards and Georgia and South Carolina colonists.
x - David Hume *+ [b.1711 d.1776] writes his most important work A Treatise of Human Nature *
x - Three separate violent uprisings by black slaves occur in South Carolina.
x - American revolutionary Ethan Allen born.