1734

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Years:	1731 1732 1733 - 1734 - 1735 1736 1737

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Year 1734 (MDCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1734 1.1 January – June 1.2 July – December 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events of 1734

January – June

• 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.
• March 12 – Salzburgers arrive at the mouth of the Savannah River, in the British Colony of Georgia.
• 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, in a public ceremony that involves her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
• June 30 – War of the Polish Succession: 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.

July – December

• November 5 – The Dzików Confederation is created in Poland.

Births

1734 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1734 MDCCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2487
Armenian calendar	1183 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԳ
Bahá'í calendar	-110 – -109
Berber calendar	2684
Buddhist calendar	2278
Burmese calendar	1096
Byzantine calendar	7242 – 7243
Chinese calendar	癸丑年十一月廿七日 (4370/4430-11-27) — to — 甲寅年十二月初七日 (4371/4431-12-7)
Coptic calendar	1450 – 1451
Ethiopian calendar	1726 – 1727
Hebrew calendar	5494 – 5495
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1789 – 1790
- Shaka Samvat	1656 – 1657
- Kali Yuga	4835 – 4836
Holocene calendar	11734
Iranian calendar	1112 – 1113
Islamic calendar	1146 – 1147
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 19 (享保19年)
Korean calendar	4067
Thai solar calendar	2277
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• 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)
• July 25 – Ueda Akinari, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1809)
• 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 Dynasty (d.1816)

See also Category: 1734 births.

Deaths

• January 6 – John Dennis, English critic and dramatist (b. 1657)
• February 1 – John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
• February 1 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
• March 1 – Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
• March 21 – Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
• May 4 – James Thornhill, English painter (b. 1675 or 1676)
• May 24 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
• June 12 – James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II of England and French military commander (b. 1670)
• June 17 – Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (b. 1653)
• June 21 – Marie-Joseph Angélique, African slave
• July 22 – Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1669)
• November 14 – Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
• December 28 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish clan chief (b. 1671)

See also Category: 1734 deaths.

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