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Years:
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1734
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1735
1736
1737
Decades
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Centuries
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Events
January 8
- Premiere of
George Frideric Handel
's opera
Ariodante
at the
Royal Opera House
,
Covent Garden
.
June 17
- French troops take
Philippsburg
, but the Duke of Berwick is killed
June 21
- In
Montreal
in
New France
, a black slave known by the French name of
Marie-Joseph Angélique
, was
tortured
then
hanged
by the
French
authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
June 30
-
Russian
troops take
Gdańsk
(
German
:Danzig) which had been besieged since October 1733. Gdańsk is captured after the failure of a
French
expedition to relieve the city
Births
September 3
-
Joseph Wright
, British painter (died
1797
)
October 7
-
Sir Ralph Abercromby
,
British
general.
November 2
-
Daniel Boone
, US frontiersman (died
1820
)
December 15
-
George Romney
, English painter (died
1802
)
Franz Mesmer
, Austrian physician (died
1815
)
Deaths
March 1
-
Roger North
, biographer (b.
1653
)
June 12
-
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
, illegitimate son of deceased King
James II of England
and French military commander (born
1670
)
June 17
-
Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars
, French soldier
June 21
-
Marie-Joseph Angélique
, African
slave
.
December 28
-
Rob Roy MacGregor
, Scottish clan chief (born
1671
)
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