1735
*
April 16 - The
London premiere of
Alcina by
George Frideric Handel, his first Italian
opera for the
Royal Opera House at
Covent Garden.
*
July 11 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that
Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before
1979.
*
August 4 -
Freedom of the press:
New York Weekly Journal writer
John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious
libel against the royal governor of
New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
* October -
War of the Polish Succession concludes a preliminary peace, ratified in 1738
*
Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces fail to occupy the
Crimea due to
rasputitsa.
*
French make peace with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (until 1740)
* Ship building industry begins in
Mumbai*
Carolus Linnaeus publishes his
Systema Naturae* End of the reign of
Emperor Nakamikado of Japan*
Emperor Sakuramachi ascends to the throne of
Japan*
Euler-Maclaurin formula developed
*
George Hadley correctly explains
global circulation for the first time
*
King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) is completed
*
Etienne Fourmont writes
Réflexions critiques sur les histoires des anciens peuples* The
Qianlong Emperor succeeds
Yongzheng and begins a 60-year-long reign of the
Qing Dynasty.
*
Construction begins on the Chemin du roy between Quebec and Montreal
*
William Hogarth Publishes "A Rakes Progress"
*
Edmund Curll tries to publish "Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence" The stock of which is subsequently seized
*
Augusta, Georgia is founded
*
January 1 -
Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot (d.
1818)
*
January 8 -
John Carroll (priest) first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S. (d.
1815)
*
February 28 -
Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist (d.
1796)
*
April 13 -
Isaac Low, New York delegate to the
Continental Congress (d.
1791)
*
May 1 -
Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Spanish Jesuit philologist (d.
1809)
*
September 5 -
Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d.
1782)
*
October 1 -
Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (d.
1811)
*
October 9 -
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (d.
1806)
*
October 21 -
Richard Gough, English antiquary (d.
1809)
*
October 30 -
John Adams, 2nd
President of the United States (d.
1826)
*
November 10 -
Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d.
1813)
*
December 29 -
Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist (d.
1805)
*
December 31 -
Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer (d.
1813)
*
John Julius Angerstein, English merchant and insurer (d.
1822)
*
Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, (d.
1814)
*
Étienne Clavière, French financier and politician (d.
1793)
*
James Keir, Scottish geologist, chemist, and industrialist (d.
1820)
*
January 12 -
John Eccles, British composer (b.
1668)
*
January 18 -
Maria Clementina Sobieski, Polish princess (b.
1702)
*
February 27 -
John Arbuthnot, British physician and author (b.
1667)
*
April 5 -
William Derham, English minister and writer (b.
1657)
* April 5 -
Samuel Wesley, English poet and religious leader (b.
1662)
*
June 10 -
Thomas Hearne, British antiquarian (b.
1678)
*
September 27 -
Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (drowned) (b.
1705)
*
October 8 -
Yongzheng Emperor of China (b.
1678)
*
December 14 -
Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b.
1674)
*
Chinese Calendar:
Yongzheng-13 雍正十三年
