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February 4 - Court Jew Joseph Suss Oppenheimer is executed in Württenberg
April 15 - Premiere in London of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.
May 24 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
November 13 - Ratification of the Treaty of Vienna
Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces fail to cross the Dniester and are decimated by plague.
The Qing government announced that all western businessmen had to use the cohong in Guangzhou to trade.
The excavation of Herculaneum, a Roman city buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, begins.
Stanisław Leszczyński receives Lorraine in exchange for renouncing the Polish throne.
Pierre Louis Maupertuis publishes Sur la figure de la terre, which 'confirms Newton's view that the earth is a spheroid slightly flattened at the poles'.
Franz Ketterer invents the cuckoo clock.
Jacques de Vaucanson presents the world's first automaton, The Flute Player, to the French Academy of Sciences

Births

January 21 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (d. 1789)
April 12 - Padre Francisco Garcés, Spanish missionary (d. 1781)
April 16 - General Sir Henry Clinton (American War of Independence), British officer (d. 1795)
May 27 - Nathaniel Gorham, American politician (d. 1796)
June 4 - King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820)
July 3 - John Singleton Copley, American painter (d. 1815)
September 25 - Nicholas Van Dyke, American lawyer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
October 11 - Arthur Phillip, British admiral and Governor of New South Wales (d. 1814)
October 18 - Andrei Bolotov, Russian agriculturalist and memoirist (d. 1833)
November 15 - William Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1822)
December 31 - Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (d. 1805)

Deaths

February 15 - Matthias Braun, Czech sculptor (b. 1684)
March 16 - George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666)
March 25 - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
May 1 - Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle, English statesman
June 5 - Isaac de Beausobre, French protestant pastor (b. 1659)
June 21 - Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, English politician (b. 1674)
September 23 - Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (b. 1668)
December 22 - Constantia Jones, English prostitute (executed)

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