1734
*
January 8 - Premiere of
George Frideric Handel's opera
Ariodante at the
Royal Opera House,
Covent Garden.
*
June 17 - French troops take
Philippsburg, but the Duke of Berwick is killed
*
June 21 - In
Montreal in
New France, a black slave known by the French name of
Marie-Joseph Angélique, was
tortured then
hanged by the
French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
*
June 30 - The
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.
*
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)
*
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)
*
Ueda Akinari, Japanese author and scholar (d.
1809)
*
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)
