1730

1730 (MDCCXXX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1730th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 730th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1730, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1730 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1730
MDCCXXX
Ab urbe condita2483
Armenian calendar1179
ԹՎ ՌՃՀԹ
Assyrian calendar6480
Balinese saka calendar1651–1652
Bengali calendar1137
Berber calendar2680
British Regnal year3 Geo. 2  4 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2274
Burmese calendar1092
Byzantine calendar7238–7239
Chinese calendar己酉年 (Earth Rooster)
4426 or 4366
     to 
庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4427 or 4367
Coptic calendar1446–1447
Discordian calendar2896
Ethiopian calendar1722–1723
Hebrew calendar5490–5491
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1786–1787
 - Shaka Samvat1651–1652
 - Kali Yuga4830–4831
Holocene calendar11730
Igbo calendar730–731
Iranian calendar1108–1109
Islamic calendar1142–1143
Japanese calendarKyōhō 15
(享保15年)
Javanese calendar1654–1655
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4063
Minguo calendar182 before ROC
民前182年
Nanakshahi calendar262
Thai solar calendar2272–2273
Tibetan calendar阴土鸡年
(female Earth-Rooster)
1856 or 1475 or 703
     to 
阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
1857 or 1476 or 704
Cresap's War starts in 1730.

Events

JanuaryMarch

  • January 30 (January 19 O.S.) At dawn, Emperor Peter II of Russia dies of smallpox, aged 14 in Moscow, on the eve of his projected marriage.
  • February 26 (February 15 O.S.) Anna of Russia (Anna Ioannovna) becomes reigning Empress of Russia following the death of her cousin Emperor Peter II.
  • February 28 Vitus Bering returns to the Russian capital of Saint Petersburg after completing the First Kamchatka expedition.
  • March 5 The 1730 papal conclave to elect a new Pope for the Roman Catholic church begins with 30 Cardinals, 12 days after the death of Pope Benedict XIII. By the time his successor is elected on July 12, there are 56 Cardinals.
  • March 9 General Nader Khan of Persia opens the first campaign of the Ottoman–Persian War (1730–1735), guiding the Persian Army from Shiraz and starting the Western Persia Campaign against the Ottoman Empire.
  • March 12 John Glas is deposed from the Church of Scotland; the Glasite sect forms around him.[1]
  • March 16 The establishment by Thomas Cresap of Wright's Ferry under the authority of the Province of Pennsylvania[2] becomes the basis for Cresap's War, a nine-year-long conflict also known as the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute; the conflict mainly centers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and York County, Pennsylvania on either bank of the Susquehanna River.

AprilJune

  • April 8 Congregation Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
  • May 9 (April 28 O.S.) The coronation of Anna of Russia as Empress of Russia takes place in Saint Petersburg.
  • May 15 Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, retires from his role in the government of Great Britain, leaving Robert Walpole as sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet (i.e., prime minister). In the new Walpole ministry, Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet, becomes Secretary at War, and Henry Pelham is Paymaster of the Forces; Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington briefly becomes Lord Privy Seal.
  • June 1 Enslaved woman Sally Basset is put on trial for murder in Bermuda; she will eventually be convicted and burned at the stake.
  • June 19 At the urging of Sir William Gooch, the Virginia House of Burgesses passes the Virginia Tobacco Inspection Act to regulate the quality of tobacco in Virginia, 46 to 5.[3][4]
  • June 27 French explorer Alphonse de Pontevez, commanding the frigate Le Lys, claims an Indian Ocean atoll for France and names it after himself as the Alphonse Atoll. The next day, he claims and names the St. François Atoll.

JulySeptember

  • July 8 1730 Valparaíso earthquake: An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.1 strikes Valparaíso, in modern-day Chile but at this time in the Viceroyalty of Peru.
  • July 12 The papal conclave selects Cardinal Lorenzo Corsini over Cardinal Pietro Marcellino Corradini as the successor to Pope Benedict XIII. Corsini becomes Pope Clement XII as the 246th pope.
  • August 4 Maria Madlener becomes the last person to be executed after the Galgeninsel witch trials in Bavaria, and is beheaded by sword.
  • August 5 Prince Frederick of Prussia, the eldest son of King Frederick William and a high-ranking officer, attempts to flee to England after deserting the Prussian Army and is captured along with his fellow officer Hans Hermann von Katte. Katte is executed, and Crown Prince Frederick is imprisoned at Küstrin (modern-day Kostrzyn nad Odrą in Poland) for a year before being forgiven by his father. Prince Frederick later succeeds his father as King and will be remembered as Frederick the Great.[5]
  • August 12 General Nader Khan of Persia captures Tabriz from the Ottoman Empire, bringing an end to the Western Persia Campaign, the first major action in the Ottoman–Persian War (1730–1735). Tabriz becomes a permanent part of Iran. Nader leaves the city four days later to begin the Herat Campaign of 1731.
  • August 25 French Protestant Marie Durand is imprisoned in the Tower of Constance at Aigues-Mortes for her defiance of the Roman Catholic government, and is kept captive for the next 38 years. During her incarceration, she continues to resist converting to Catholicism as a condition of release. She is finally set free on April 14, 1768 and lives 8 more years.
  • September 1 A volcano erupts on Lanzarote, the easternmost of the Canary Islands and threatens the Spanish inhabitants. On Gran Canaria, the regent of the islands reports to Madrid that the flames are visible even from 130 miles (210 km) away.[6]
  • September 17 Mahmud I (d. 1754) succeeds Ahmed III (ruled since 1703) as Ottoman Emperor.

OctoberDecember

  • October 22 Construction of the Ladoga Canal, linking the Neva and Svir Rivers, one of the first major navigable canals constructed in Russia, is completed.
  • November 6 After being convicted of treason for attempting to desert the Prussian Army with Crown Prince Frederick, Hans Hermann von Katte is beheaded at the Küstrin Prison. Frederick's father, King Frederick William, forces the prince to watch the execution.[5]
  • December 9 The first documented notice in North America about freemasonry is published in The Pennsylvania Gazette in an article by its publisher, Benjamin Franklin.[7]
  • December 27 The Dutch East India Company ends almost 11-year effort of trying to maintain a colony around Delagoa Bay in southern Africa in modern-day Mozambique. The entire population of the settlement, Fort Lydzammheid (near modern-day Maputo) is evacuated by the ships Snuffelaar, Zeepost and Feyenoord and the group returns to Cape Town.[8]

Date unknown

  • The Missouria tribe is all almost destroyed when hundreds are killed in an attack by the Meskwawi and Sauk.

Births

  • January 3 Velu Nachiyar, queen regnant of Sivaganga (d. 1796)
  • March 7 Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807)

Deaths

Frederick IV

References

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  3. Daniel Avery, United Interests: William Gooch, the Frontier, and the Politics of Virginia, 1720-1750 (University of Kent, 2019) p31
  4. "Virginia Public Tobacco Warehouses, 1730/31". Files.usgwararchives.net. Archived from the original (TXT) on June 4, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
  5. Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization, Volume IX: The Age of Voltaire (Simon & Schuster, 1965)
  6. Alwyn Scarth, Volcanoes: An Introduction (Taylor & Francis, 2004)
  7. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, The Temple And The Lodge (Random House, 2013) p274
  8. Tim Couzens, Battles of South Africa (David Phillip Publishers, 2004) p16
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