1731
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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: | 1728 1729 1730 – 1731 – 1732 1733 1734 |
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| Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science | |
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| Gregorian calendar | 1731 MDCCXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2484 |
| Armenian calendar | 1180 ԹՎ ՌՃՁ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6481 |
| Bahá'í calendar | −113 – −112 |
| Bengali calendar | 1138 |
| Berber calendar | 2681 |
| British Regnal year | 4 Geo. 2 – 5 Geo. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2275 |
| Burmese calendar | 1093 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7239–7240 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4427 or 4367 — to — 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4428 or 4368 |
| Coptic calendar | 1447–1448 |
| Discordian calendar | 2897 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1723–1724 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5491–5492 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1787–1788 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1653–1654 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4832–4833 |
| Holocene calendar | 11731 |
| Igbo calendar | 731–732 |
| Iranian calendar | 1109–1110 |
| Islamic calendar | 1143–1144 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 16 (享保１６年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4064 |
| Minguo calendar | 181 before ROC 民前181年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2274 |
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Year 1731 (MDCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- March 16 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed between the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Spain.
- April 2 – The town of Raynham, Massachusetts in Bristol County is entered as a new town by the governor and court of Massachusetts, New England, America.
July–December
- July 1 – Benjamin Franklin and fellow-subscribers start the Library Company of Philadelphia.
Date unknown
- Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor George Burrington asks the North Carolina General Assembly to pass an act establishing a town on the Cape Fear River, in what is seen as a political move to shift the power away from the powerful Cape Fear plantation class. The town is laid out in 1733 and incorporated as Wilmington in 1740.
- English Captain Charles Gough rediscovers Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
- Laura Bassi becomes the first official female university teacher on being appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna at the age of 21.[1]
- John Bevis observes the Crab Nebula for the first time in the modern era.
- The Royal Theatre of Mantua (Italy) is built by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena.
Births
- February – Charles Churchill, English poet (d. 1764)
- April 8 – William Williams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1811)
- May 8 – Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and abolitionist (d. 1809)
- June 2 – Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
- August – Henry Constantine Jennings, English gambler and collector (d. 1819)
- October 10 – Henry Cavendish, English scientist (d. 1810)
- November 9 – Benjamin Banneker, African-American astronomer and surveyor of the District of Columbia (d. 1806)
- November 15 – William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
- December 8 – František Xaver Dušek, Czech composer (d. 1799)
- December 12 – Erasmus Darwin, English scientist and grandfather of Charles Darwin (d. 1802)
- December 28 – José de Viera y Clavijo, Spanish writer
- Nikephoros Theotokis, Greek scholar and theologian (d. 1800)
- Mikiel'Ang Grima – Maltese surgeon (d. 1798)
Deaths
- January 6 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
- January 27 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655)
- February 22 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
- March 5 - Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Sufi academic (b. 1641
- March 8 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
- April 24 or April 26 – Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
- May 1 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
- August 27 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, divorced wife of Peter the Great of Russia (b. 1669)
- December 17 – George Lockhart, writer, spy and politician (duel)
- December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (b. 1672)
- December 29 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)
References
- ↑ "The 18th Century Women Scientists of Bologna". ScienceWeek. 2004. Retrieved 2011-04-26.
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