January– March •
January 8 – Salzburgers,
Lutherans who were expelled by the
Roman Catholic Bishop of
Salzburg,
Austria, in October
1731, set sail for the
British Colony of
Georgia in
America. •
February 16 – The
Ostend Company, established in 1722 in the
Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) to compete for trade in the
West Indies (the Caribbean islands) and the
East Indies (south and southeast Asia), ceases business as part of the agreement by Austria in the
Second Treaty of Vienna. •
March 12 – Salzburgers arrive at the mouth of the
Savannah River in the British
Colony of Georgia.
April–June •
April 25 –
Easter occurs on the latest possible date (the next time is in
1886). •
May 15 –
Prince Charles of Spain (later King Charles III) becomes the new King of Naples and Sicily, five days after his arrival in Naples. •
May 25 – Spanish forces under the command of
José Carrillo de Albornoz, 1st Duke of Montemar, defeat the Austrian forces, completing the conquest of the Kingdom of Naples at the
Battle of Bitonto. •
May 27 – French and Swiss troops suppress the
slave insurrection in the Danish West Indies on the island of
Saint John (part of the modern-day
U.S. Virgin Islands) after six months and restore control of the plantations to the Danish owners. •
June 6 – With the conclusion of the
British general election (voting having begun in some constituencies on
April 22), the
Whigs, led by Prime Minister
Robert Walpole, lose 85 seats but retain their majority. •
June 17 – French troops take
Philippsburg, but the
Duke of Berwick is killed. •
June 21 – In
Montreal,
New France, a black slave known by the French name of
Marie-Joseph Angélique is
tortured then
hanged by the
French authorities for allegedly setting a fire that destroyed part of the city. •
June 30 –
War of the Polish Succession:
Russian troops take
Gdańsk (
German: Danzig), which had been besieged since
February 1734, after the failure of a
French expedition to relieve the city.
July–September •
July 18 –
War of the Polish Succession: The
Siege of Philippsburg (an Austrian fortress near Karlsruhe, Germany) by the French Army ends after eight weeks as its Austrian defenders surrender. •
August 6 – The armies of Spain and France, led by
the Duke of Parma (and future King Charles III of Spain) storm the city of
Gaeta in
Naples, ending a
four-month siege (War of the Polish Succession). •
September 28 –
Abdu'llah bin Ismail as-Samin is deposed after a 15-year reign as
Sultan of Morocco.
October–December •
October 23 –
Jamaica's Governor
John Ayscough declares martial law to fight the slave rebellion that began in 1733, then drafts 600 men into the colonial army to march into the
Blue Mountains. (→
First Maroon War) •
October 31 – Chief
Tomochichi of the
Yamacraw band of the
Muscogee Nation ends a successful four and a half month visit to Great Britain, along with Georgia Governor
James Oglethorpe and other Yamacraw Indians, after having signed the cession of the area of modern day
Savannah, Georgia to the Georgia Company. On June 16, he and the Muscogee delegation (Senauki, Toonahowi, Hillispilli, Umpichi, Apokutchi, Santachi and Stimaletchi) had been welcomed as guests of King George II. The group departs on
HMS Aldborough after completing the visit by the largest delegation of Native Americans since 1616. •
November 5 – The
Dzików Confederation is created in Poland. •
December 24 – A fire destroys the
Royal Alcázar of Madrid, the residence of the
Spanish royal family, along with more than 400 valuable paintings, 100 sculptures and thousands of documents.
Undated • Creation of the
Kanem–Bornu Empire after Kanem is taken over by the Sultan of Bornu. •
Anton Wilhelm Amo becomes the first African to receive a doctorate in Europe and begins teaching at the
University of Halle. == Births ==