1734
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1700s 1710s 1720s – 1730s – 1740s 1750s 1760s |
| Years: | 1731 1732 1733 – 1734 – 1735 1736 1737 |
| 1734 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
| Countries: Canada – Great Britain – |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1734 (MDCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1734
[edit] 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, in a public ceremony that involves her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
- 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.
[edit] July–December
- November 5 – The Dzików Confederation is created in Poland.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1734 MDCCXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2487 |
| Armenian calendar | 1183 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -110 – -109 |
| Bengali calendar | 1141 |
| Berber calendar | 2684 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2278 |
| Burmese calendar | 1096 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7242 – 7243 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年十一月廿七日 (4370/4430-11-27) — to —
甲寅年十二月初七日(4371/4431-12-7) |
| Coptic calendar | 1450 – 1451 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1726 – 1727 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5494 – 5495 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1790 – 1791 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1656 – 1657 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4835 – 4836 |
| Holocene calendar | 11734 |
| Iranian calendar | 1112 – 1113 |
| Islamic calendar | 1146 – 1147 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 19 (享保19年) |
| Korean calendar | 4067 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2277 |
- 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)
- 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)
[edit] Deaths
- January 6 – John Dennis, English critic and dramatist (b. 1657)
- February 1 – John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
- February 1 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
- March 1 – Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
- March 21 – Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
- 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, Marshall 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)
