1737

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[edit] Events of 1737

May 28 - The planet Venus passed in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening hours by the amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed.
June 30 - Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces under Field Marshal Munnich storm the Ottoman fortress of Ochakov and take prisoner 4,000 Turks.

September 20 - Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
October - The first national stage in Sweden opens when the play "Den Svenska Sprätthöken" is performed in the native language, by the first native actors, on the stage of Bollhuset in Stockholm.
October 7 - A tropical cyclone strikes Bengal, India killing approximately 300,000.
October 16 An earthquake with a magnitude of 9.3 explodes off the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia, causing a major tsunami in the Pacific ocean.
November 4 - The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.

January 23 - John Hancock, American statesman and revolutionary (d. 1793)
January 29 - Thomas Paine, British-born American patriot and pamphleteer (d. 1809)
April 27 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794)
May 2 - William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805)
June 20 - Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1786)
August 5 - Johann Friedrich Struensee, Danish royal physician (d. 1772)
August 29 - John Hunter, second governor of New South Wales (d. 1821)
September 9 - Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
September 14 - Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
towards September 15 - Miklós Küzmics, Hungarian Slovenes writer, catholics priest (d. 1804)
September 19 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1832)
December 26 - Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815)
date unknown - Frances Abington, English actress (d. 1815)

See also Category: 1737 births.

See also Category: 1737 deaths.

The Annual Catalogue - List of History, Divinity, Law, Poetry, Plays, Novels, Painting, Architecture, and all other Sciences books published in London in 1737