1730

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1700s  1710s  1720s  – 1730s –  1740s  1750s  1760s
Years:	1727 1728 1729 – 1730 – 1731 1732 1733

1730 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1730 (MDCCXXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1730 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Ongoing 3 Births 4 Deaths

Events of 1730

January–June

• January 29 – Anna Ivanovna (Anna of Russia) becomes tsarina, following the death of her cousin, Tsar Peter II.
• 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.

July–December

• July 8 – 1730 Valparaiso earthquake in Chile.
• July 12 – Pope Clement XII succeeds Pope Benedict XIII as the 246th pope.
• September 17 – Mahmud I (1730–1754) succeeds Ahmed III (1703–1730) as Ottoman Emperor.

Undated

• The Glasite sect is formed.

Ongoing

• Second Fox War (1728–1733)

Births

1730 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1730 MDCCXXX
Ab urbe condita	2483
Armenian calendar	1179 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-114 – -113
Bengali calendar	1137
Berber calendar	2680
Buddhist calendar	2274
Burmese calendar	1092
Byzantine calendar	7238 – 7239
Chinese calendar	己酉年十一月十三日 (4366/4426-11-13) — to — 庚戌年十一月廿二日 (4367/4427-11-22)
Coptic calendar	1446 – 1447
Ethiopian calendar	1722 – 1723
Hebrew calendar	5490 – 5491
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1786 – 1787
- Shaka Samvat	1652 – 1653
- Kali Yuga	4831 – 4832
Holocene calendar	11730
Iranian calendar	1108 – 1109
Islamic calendar	1142 – 1143
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 15 (享保15年)
Korean calendar	4063
Thai solar calendar	2273

• March 7 – Baron de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807)
• April 16 – Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
• April 26 – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1805)
• May 13 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782)
• June 21 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar of the kokugaku school (d. 1801)
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
• July 26 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
• September 17 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
• November 23 – William Moultrie, American general (d. 1805)
• December 25 – Philip Mazzei, Italian physician and friend of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1816)
• December 30 – William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary (d. 1803)
• date unknown
  • John Cook, American farmer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
  • John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, (Lord Dunmore) (d. 1809)

Deaths

• January 1
  • Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician (b. 1647)
  • Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (b. 1652)
• January 29 – Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
• February 21 – Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
• March 9 – Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnel (b. c. 1647)
• March 20 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
• March 23 – Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1654)
• April – Yinxiang, 1st Prince Yi, Qing dynasty prince (b. 1686)
• May 30 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
• July 7 – Olivier Levasseur, French pirate
• July 18 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
• September 27 – Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
• October 12 – Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671)
• October 15 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)
• October 23 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
• November 21 – François de Troy, French portrait artist