1734

1734 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar	1734; MDCCXXXIV
Ab urbe condita	2487
Armenian calendar	1183; ԹՎ ՌՃՁԳ
Assyrian calendar	6484
Balinese saka calendar	1655–1656
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	1655–1656
- Kali Yuga	4834–4835
Holocene calendar	11734
Igbo calendar	734–735
Iranian calendar	1112–1113
Islamic calendar	1146–1147
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 19; (享保１９年)
Javanese calendar	1658–1659
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4067
Minguo calendar	178 before ROC; 民前178年
Nanakshahi calendar	266
Thai solar calendar	2276–2277
Tibetan calendar	阴水牛年; (female Water-Ox); 1860 or 1479 or 707; — to —; 阳木虎年; (male Wood-Tiger); 1861 or 1480 or 708

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

1734 (MDCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday 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. As of the start of 1734, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

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.[1]
March 12 – Salzburgers arrive at the mouth of the Savannah River, in the British Colony of Georgia.
April 25 – Easter occurs on the latest possible date (the next time is in 1886).
June 17 – French troops take Philippsburg, but 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, after the failure of a French expedition to relieve the city.

January 16 – John A. Treutlen, Governor of Georgia (d. 1782)
January 20 – Robert Morris, Founding Father of the United States (d. 1806)
February 15 – William Stacy, American Revolutionary War officer (d. 1802)
February 27 – Thomas Conway, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1800)
March 1 – Jeanne de Bellem, heroine of the Brabant Revolution
March 19 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
April 17 – Taksin, King of Thailand (d. 1782)
April – Elsa Beata Bunge, Swedish botanist (d. 1819)
May 23 – Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815)
July 25 – Ueda Akinari, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1809)
August 10 – Naungdawgyi, Burmese king (d. 1763)
August 24 – Benjamin Church, first Surgeon General of the United States Army (d. 1763)
September 3 – Joseph Wright, British painter (d. 1797)
September 17 – Elizabeth Canning, English maidservant and kidnappee (d. 1773)
October 7 – Sir Ralph Abercromby, British general (d. 1801)

November 2 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
December 1 – Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, Polish aristocrat and patron of the arts (d. 1823)
December 17 – Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen from the Braganza Dynasty (d. 1816)
December 21 – Paul Revere, American silversmith, engraver, and Patriot in the American Revolution (d. 1818)
December 26 – George Romney, English painter (d. 1802)
December 31 – Francisco Manoel de Nascimento, Portuguese poet (d. 1819)
date unknown
- Catharina Ahlgren, Swedish poet, editor and early feminist (d.1800)
- Ulrica Arfvidsson, Swedish fortune teller (d. 1801)
- Elżbieta Branicka, Polish szlachta and politician (d. 1800)
- John Dawson, English mathematician and surgeon (d.1820)
- Pedro Fages, Spanish soldier, explorer, and Governor of Alta California (d. 1794)
- Rohal Faqir, Pakistani saint-poet and mystic (d.1804)

January 6 – John Dennis, English dramatist, critic (b. 1658)
February 1
- John Floyer, English physician, writer (b. 1649)
- Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
February 2 – Charles Calvert, Maryland official (b. 1688)
February 9 – Diego de Astorga y Céspedes, Spanish Catholic cardinal (b. 1663)
March 1 – Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
March 16 – Andreas Silbermann, German organ builder (b. 1678)
March 21 – Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
April 1 – Louis Lully, French composer (b. 1664)
April 25 – Johann Conrad Dippel, German alchemist (b. 1673)
May 4 – James Thornhill, English painter (b. 1675 or 1676)
May 15 – Sebastiano Ricci, Italian painter (b. 1659)
May 21 – Philippine Élisabeth d'Orléans, French princess (b. 1714)
May 24 – Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)

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