1731
Years:
1728 1729 1730 - 1731 - 1732 1733 1734Decades:
1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760sCenturies:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
1731 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths
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Births
- February - Charles Churchill, English poet (d. 1764)
- May 8 - Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and abolitionist (d. 1809)
- June 21 - Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
- October 10 - Henry Cavendish, English scientist (d. 1810)
- November 9 -Benjamin Banneker, American surveyor of the District of Columbia (d. 1806)
- November 15 - William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
- December 12 - Erasmus Darwin, English scientist and grandfather of Charles Darwin (d. 1802)
Deaths
- January 6 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
- January 21 - Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
- January 27 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655)
- February 22 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
- March 8 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
- April 24 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
- May 1 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
- December 26 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (b. 1672)
- December 29 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)