1730

Events

* Pope Clement XII elected
* September 17 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed III (1703-1730) to Mahmud I (1730-1754)
* Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) became czarina

Births

*April 16 - Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
*May 13 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782)
*July 12 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
*July 26 - Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
*September 17 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
*November 23 - William Moultrie, American general (d. 1805)
*December 30 - William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary (d. 1803)
*Baron de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807)
*John Cook, American farmer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
*John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1805)
*John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, (Lord Dunmore) (d. February 25, 1809)
*21 June - Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar of the kokugaku school (d. 1801)

Deaths

* January 1 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician (b. 1647)
* January 1 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (b. 1652)
* January 29 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
* February 23 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
* March 2 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
* March 20 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
* May 30 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
* July 18 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
* 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)

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