1734

Years:
1731 1732 1733 - 1734 - 1735 1736 1737
Decades:
1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s
Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century
1734 in topic:
Arts
Architecture - Literature - Music
Other topics
Canada - Science
Lists of leaders:
Colonial governors - State leaders ---- From Categories:
births - deaths

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

February 27 - Thomas Conway, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1800)
March 19 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
May 23 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815)
September 3 - Joseph Wright, British painter (d. 1797)
October 7 - Sir Ralph Abercromby, British general (d. 1801)
November 2 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
December 15 - George Romney, English painter (d. 1802)
December 17 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen, from Braganza Dinasty (d.1816)