1733
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| Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
| Decades: | 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s |
| Years: | 1730 1731 1732 - 1733 - 1734 1735 1736 |
| 1733 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology - Architecture - |
| Art - Literature - Music - Science |
| Countries: Canada |
| Great Britain - Mexico |
| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Births - Deaths - Works |
Year 1733 (MDCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1733
[edit] January - June
- February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.
- April - Royal Colony of North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble plan the town of New Carthage (which would eventually become Wilmington, North Carolina on the east side of the Cape Fear River).
- May 29 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec.
[edit] July - December
- July 30 - First Freemasons lodge opened in what will become the United States of America.
[edit] Undated
- (none)
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1733 MDCCXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2486 |
| Armenian calendar | 1182 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԲ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -111 – -110 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2277 |
| Chinese calendar | 4369/4429-11-16 (壬子年十一月十六日) — to —
4370/4430-11-26(癸丑年十一月廿六日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1725 – 1726 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5493 – 5494 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1788 – 1789 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1655 – 1656 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4834 – 4835 |
| Holocene calendar | 11733 |
| Iranian calendar | 1111 – 1112 |
| Islamic calendar | 1145 – 1146 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 18 (享保18年) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2393 (皇紀2393年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11733 |
| Julian calendar | 1778 |
| Korean calendar | 4066 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2276 |
- March 13 - Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (died 1804)
- May 4 - Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (died 1799)
- July 27 - Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (died 1779)
- September 18 - George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (died 1798)
- October 14 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (died 1798)
- November 16 - Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent ruler of Bengal of undivided India (died 1757)
[edit] Unknown dates
- (none)
- See also Category: 1733 births.
[edit] Deaths
- January 25 - Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (born 1652)
- February 1 - King August II of Poland (born 1670)
- March 4 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (born 1656)
- April 19 - Elizabeth Villiers, mistress of William III of England (born 1657)
- May 10 - Barton Booth, English actor (born 1681)
- May 18 - Georg Böhm, German organist (born 1661)
- August 16 - Matthew Tindal, English deist (born 1657)
- June 23 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (born 1672)
- September 12 - François Couperin, French composer (born 1668)
- October 25 - Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (born 1667)
- October 31 - Eberhard Ludwig, Duke of Württemberg, (born 1676)
[edit] Unknown dates
- (none)
- See also Category: 1733 deaths.
