1734
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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 |
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| Countries: Canada |
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| Leaders: State leaders - Colonial governors |
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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 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- June 17 - French troops take Philippsburg, but the Duke of Berwick is killed
- June 21 - In Montreal in New France, a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured then hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
- June 30 - The War of the Polish Succession: Russian troops take Gdańsk (German: Danzig), which had been besieged since October 1733. Gdańsk is captured after the failure of a French expedition to relieve the city.
[edit] July - December
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[edit] Undated
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[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1734 MDCCXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2487 |
| Armenian calendar | 1183 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԳ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -110 – -109 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2278 |
| Chinese calendar | 4370/4430-11-27 (癸丑年十一月廿七日) — to —
4371/4431-12-7(甲寅年十二月初七日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1726 – 1727 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5494 – 5495 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1789 – 1790 |
| - 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) |
| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2394 (皇紀2394年) |
| - Jōmon Era | 11734 |
| Julian calendar | 1779 |
| 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)
- 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] Unknown dates
- Ueda Akinari, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1809)
- See also Category: 1734 births.
[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)
[edit] Unknown dates
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- See also Category: 1734 deaths.
