1735
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| 1735 Chinese Calendar: Yongzheng-13 雍正十三年 |
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| Years: 1732 1733 1734 - 1735 - 1736 1737 1738 |
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| Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s |
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| Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century 1735 in topic: Lists of leaders: |
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Events
- April 16 - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
- July 11 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
- August 4 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
- October - War of the Polish Succession concludes a preliminary peace, ratified in 1738
- Battle of Trepani in the War of the Polish Succession
- French make peace with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (until 1740)
- Ship building industry begins in Mumbai
- Carolus Linnaeus publishes his System of Nature
- End of the reign of Emperor Nakamikado of Japan
- Emperor Sakuramachi ascends to the throne of Japan
- Euler-Maclaurin formula developed
- George Hadley correctly explains global circulation for the first time
- King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) is completed
- Etienne Fourmont writes Réflexions critiques sur les histoires des anciens peuples
- The Qianlong Emperor succeeds Yongzheng and begins a 60-year-long reign of the Qing Dynasty.
- Construction begins on the Chemin du roy between Quebec and Montreal
- William Hogarth Publishes "A Rakes Progress"
- Edmund Curll tries to publish "Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence" The stock of which is subsequently seized
- Augusta, Georgia is founded
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Births
- January 1 - Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot (d. 1818)
- January 8 - John Carroll first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S. (d. 1815)
- February 28 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist (d. 1796)
- April 13 - Isaac Low, New York delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791)
- May 1 - Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Spanish Jesuit philologist (d. 1809)
- September 5 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
- October 1 - Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (d. 1811)
- October 9 - Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (d. 1806)
- October 21 - Richard Gough, English antiquary (d. 1809)
- October 30 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- November 10 - Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d. 1813)
- December 29 - Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist (d. 1805)
- December 31 - Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer (d. 1813)
- John Julius Angerstein, English merchant and insurer (d. 1822)
- Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, (d. 1814)
- Étienne Clavière, French financier and politician (d. 1793)
- James Keir, Scottish geologist, chemist, and industrialist (d. 1820)
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Deaths
- January 12 - John Eccles, British composer (b. 1668)
- January 18 - Maria Clementina Sobieski, Polish princess (b. 1702)
- February 27 - John Arbuthnot, British physician and author (b. 1667)
- April 5 - William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657)
- April 5 - Samuel Wesley, English poet and religious leader (b. 1662)
- June 10 - Thomas Hearne, British antiquarian (b. 1678)
- September 27 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (drowned) (b. 1705)
- October 8 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
- December 14 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)
