1734

This article is about the year 1734.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1700s  1710s  1720s  – 1730s –  1740s  1750s  1760s
Years:	1731 1732 1733 – 1734 – 1735 1736 1737

1734 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Portugal – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1734 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1734 MDCCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2487
Armenian calendar	1183 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԳ
Assyrian calendar	6484
Bengali calendar	1141
Berber calendar	2684
British Regnal year	7 Geo. 2 – 8 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2278
Burmese calendar	1096
Byzantine calendar	7242–7243
Chinese calendar	癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4430 or 4370     — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4431 or 4371
Coptic calendar	1450–1451
Discordian calendar	2900
Ethiopian calendar	1726–1727
Hebrew calendar	5494–5495
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1790–1791
- Shaka Samvat	1656–1657
- Kali Yuga	4835–4836
Holocene calendar	11734
Igbo calendar	734–735
Iranian calendar	1112–1113
Islamic calendar	1146–1147
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 19 (享保１９年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4067
Minguo calendar	178 before ROC 民前178年
Thai solar calendar	2276–2277

1734 (MDCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (dominical letter C) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday (dominical letter F) of the Julian calendar, the 1734th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 734th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1730s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1734 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

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 for allegedly setting a fire that destroyed part of the city.
• June 30 – War of the Polish Succession: Russian troops take Gdańsk (German: Danzig), which had been besieged since February 1734. 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

• 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)
• April 17 – King of Thonburi, King of Thailand (d. 1782)
• 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)
• Date unknown – Catharina Ahlgren, Swedish poet, editor and early feminist (d.1800)

Deaths

• January 6 – John Dennis, English dramatist and critic (b. 1658)
• February 1
  • John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
  • Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
• March 1 – Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
• March 21 – Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
• April 25 – Johann Conrad Dippel, German alchemist (b. 1673)
• 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, Marshal 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)