1733

1733 (MDCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1733rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 733rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1733, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1733 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1733
MDCCXXXIII
Ab urbe condita2486
Armenian calendar1182
ԹՎ ՌՃՁԲ
Assyrian calendar6483
Balinese saka calendar1654–1655
Bengali calendar1140
Berber calendar2683
British Regnal year6 Geo. 2  7 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2277
Burmese calendar1095
Byzantine calendar7241–7242
Chinese calendar壬子年 (Water Rat)
4429 or 4369
     to 
癸丑年 (Water Ox)
4430 or 4370
Coptic calendar1449–1450
Discordian calendar2899
Ethiopian calendar1725–1726
Hebrew calendar5493–5494
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1789–1790
 - Shaka Samvat1654–1655
 - Kali Yuga4833–4834
Holocene calendar11733
Igbo calendar733–734
Iranian calendar1111–1112
Islamic calendar1145–1146
Japanese calendarKyōhō 18
(享保18年)
Javanese calendar1657–1658
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4066
Minguo calendar179 before ROC
民前179年
Nanakshahi calendar265
Thai solar calendar2275–2276
Tibetan calendar阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1859 or 1478 or 706
     to 
阴水牛年
(female Water-Ox)
1860 or 1479 or 707
October 24: Battle of Kirkuk

Events

JanuaryMarch

  • January 13 Borommarachathirat V becomes King of Siam (now Thailand) upon the death of King Sanphet IX.
  • January 27 George Frideric Handel's classic opera, Orlando is performed for the first time, making its debut at the King's Theatre in London.
  • February 12 British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.[1]
  • March 21 The Molasses Act is passed by British House of Commons, which reinforces the negative opinions of the British by American colonists.[2] The Act then goes to the House of Lords, which consents to it on May 4 and it receives royal assent on May 17.
  • March 25 English replaces Latin and Law French as the official language of English and Scottish courts following the enforcement of the Proceedings in Courts of Justice Act 1730.

AprilJune

  • April 6
    • After British Prime Minister Robert Walpole's proposed excise tax bill results in rioting over the imposition of additional taxes and the use of government agents to collect them, Walpole informs the House of Commons that he will withdraw the legislation.[3]
    • Royal Colony of North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble begin selling lots for the town of New Carthage (which is later renamed and is now Wilmington, North Carolina), on the east side of the Cape Fear River.[4]
  • May 1 The canton system is first introduced in Prussia.
  • May 17 The Molasses Act receives royal assent and begins to go into effect on June 24.
  • May 29 The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec.
  • June 12 In Berlin, Prince Frederick of Prussia, the 21-year-old heir to the throne reluctantly marries Duchess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern in order to avoid prosecution for desertion from the Prussian Army and to be guaranteed the throne. Despite the unhappy marriage Frederick and Elisabeth later reign as King and Queen Consort of Prussia.
  • June 15 The Danish West India Company buys the island of Saint Croix from France for 750,000 livres.

JulySeptember

OctoberDecember

Births

Deaths

  • January 17 George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington, English Royal Navy admiral (b. 1663)
  • January 21 Bernard Mandeville, Dutch-born English economic philosopher (b. 1670)
  • January 22 Lovisa von Burghausen, Swedish memoirist (b. 1698)
  • January 25 Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)
  • January 27 Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1668)

References

  1. "Historical Events for Year 1733 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. Retrieved June 21, 2016.
  2. "The Molasses Act: A Brief History", Journal of the American Revolution
  3. David F. Burg, A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present (Taylor & Francis, 2004)
  4. Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr., Historic Wilmington & the Lower Cape Fear (Historical Publishing Network, 2007) p18
  5. "Boston Masons Organize First Grand Lodge in America". massmoments.org. Retrieved February 6, 2019.
  6. "The imperial heritage of Peter the Great in the foreign policy of his early successors", by E. V. Anisimov, in Imperial Russian Foreign Policy, ed. by Hugh Ragsdale (Cambridge University Press, 1993) p30
  7. Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great (Harper & Brothers, 1858) p372
  8. Douglas M. Gibler, International Military Alliances, 1648-2008, (SAGE Publications, 2008) p.85
  9. Kaveh Farrokh, Iran at War, 1500-1988 (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011) pp110-113
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