1733

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Years:	1730 1731 1732 - 1733 - 1734 1735 1736

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Year 1733 (MDCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1733 1.1 January – June 1.2 July – December 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1733

January – June

• February 12 – British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.
• April – Royal Colony of North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble plan the town of New Carthage (which would eventually become Wilmington, North Carolina on the east side of the Cape Fear River).
• May 29 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec.
• The election of Augustus III to succeed his father as King of Poland sparks the War of the Polish Succession.

July – December

• July 30 – The first Freemasons lodge opens in what will become the United States of America.

Births

1733 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1733 MDCCXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2486
Armenian calendar	1182 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԲ
Bahá'í calendar	-111 – -110
Berber calendar	2683
Buddhist calendar	2277
Burmese calendar	1095
Byzantine calendar	7241 – 7242
Chinese calendar	壬子年十一月十六日 (4369/4429-11-16) — to — 癸丑年十一月廿六日 (4370/4430-11-26)
Coptic calendar	1449 – 1450
Ethiopian calendar	1725 – 1726
Hebrew calendar	5493 – 5494
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1788 – 1789
- Shaka Samvat	1655 – 1656
- Kali Yuga	4834 – 4835
Holocene calendar	11733
Iranian calendar	1111 – 1112
Islamic calendar	1145 – 1146
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 18 (享保18年)
Korean calendar	4066
Thai solar calendar	2276
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• March 13 – Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804)
• May 4 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
• July 27 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
• September 18 – George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
• October 14 – François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
• November 16 – Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent ruler of Bengal of undivided India (d. 1757)

See also Category: 1733 births.

Deaths

• January 25 – Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)
• January 27 – Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1668)
• February 1 – King August II of Poland (b. 1670)
• March 4 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
• April 19 – Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England (b. 1657)
• May 10 – Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
• May 18 – Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1661)
• August 16 – Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
• June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
• September 12 – François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
• October 25 – Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667)
• October 31 – Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg, (b. 1676)

See also Category: 1733 deaths.

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