1730
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 17th century · 18th century · 19th century |
Decades: | 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s |
Years: | 1727 · 1728 · 1729 · 1730 · 1731 · 1732 · 1733 |
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Gregorian calendar | 1730 MDCCXXX |
Ab urbe condita | 2483 |
Armenian calendar | 1179 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6480 |
Bengali calendar | 1137 |
Berber calendar | 2680 |
British Regnal year | 3 Geo. 2 – 4 Geo. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 2274 |
Burmese calendar | 1092 |
Byzantine calendar | 7238–7239 |
Chinese calendar | 己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4426 or 4366 — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4427 or 4367 |
Coptic calendar | 1446–1447 |
Discordian calendar | 2896 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1722–1723 |
Hebrew calendar | 5490–5491 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1786–1787 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1651–1652 |
- Kali Yuga | 4830–4831 |
Holocene calendar | 11730 |
Igbo calendar | 730–731 |
Iranian calendar | 1108–1109 |
Islamic calendar | 1142–1143 |
Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 15 (享保15年) |
Javanese calendar | 1654–1655 |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4063 |
Minguo calendar | 182 before ROC 民前182年 |
Nanakshahi calendar | 262 |
Thai solar calendar | 2272–2273 |
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1730 (MDCCXXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1730th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 730th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1730, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1918.
Events
January–June
- January 29 – Anna Ivanovna (Anna of Russia) becomes empress, following the death of her cousin, Emperor Peter II.
- March 12 – John Glas deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.[1]
- April 8 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
- May 15 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, retires from his role in the government of Great Britain, leaving Robert Walpole as sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet (i.e., prime minister). In the new Walpole Ministry, Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet, becomes Secretary at War, and Henry Pelham is Paymaster of the Forces. Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington briefly becomes Lord Privy Seal.
- May –[2] At the urging of Sir William Gooch, the Virginia House of Burgesses passes the Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730 to regulate the quality of Virginian tobacco and establish inspection warehouses near plantations in the tidewater region.
- Establishment of Wright's Ferry under the authority of the Province of Pennsylvania triggers Cresap's War – a nine-year-long conflict also known as the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute – the conflict mainly centered in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and York County, Pennsylvania on either banks of the Susquehanna River.
July–December
- July 8 – Earthquake affects Valparaiso in the Viceroyalty of Peru.
- July 12 – Pope Clement XII succeeds Pope Benedict XIII as the 246th pope.
- September 17 – Mahmud I (1730–1754) succeeds Ahmed III (1703–1730) as Ottoman Emperor.
- October 22 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal linking the Neva and Svir Rivers, one of the first major navigable canals constructed in Russia, is completed.
Births
- January 3 – Velu Nachiyar, queen regnant of Sivaganga (died 1796)
- March 7 – Baron de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807)
- April 16 – Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
- April 26 – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1805)
- May 13 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782)
- May 28 – Maria Angela Ardinghelli, Italian scientific translator (died 1825)
- June 21 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar of the kokugaku school (d. 1801)
- July 10 - Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, French Freemason (d. 1824)
- July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter and abolitionist (d. 1795)
- July 26 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
- August 27 - Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
- September 17 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
- November 23 – William Moultrie, American general (d. 1805)
- December 14 – James Bruce, Scottish explorer (d. 1794)
- December 25 – Philip Mazzei, Italian physician and friend of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1816)
- December 30 – William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary (d. 1803)
- date unknown
- John Cook, American farmer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
- John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, (Lord Dunmore) (d. 1809)
Deaths
- January 1
- Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician (b. 1647)
- Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (b. 1652)
- January 29 – Emperor Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
- February 21 – Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
- March 9 – Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnel (b. c. 1647)
- March 20 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
- March 23 – Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1654)
- May 30 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
- June 18 Yinxiang, Qing Dynasty prince (b. 1686)
- June 21 – Sarah Basset, Bermudian slave and origin of legend
- July 7 – Olivier Levasseur, French pirate
- July 18 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
- September 14 – Sophia Elisabet Brenner, Swedish writer (b. 1659)
- September 27 – Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
- October 12 – Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671)
- October 15 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)
- October 23 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
- November 21 – François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645)
- December 31 – Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (b. 1651)
References
- ↑ Cates, William L. R. (1863). The Pocket Date Book. Chapman and Hall.
- ↑ "Virginia Public Tobacco Warehouses, 1730/31" (TXT). Files.usgwararchives.net. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
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