1737

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1700s  1710s  1720s  - 1730s -  1740s  1750s  1760s
Years: 1734 1735 1736 - 1737 - 1738 1739 1740
1737 in topic:
Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -
Art - Literature (Poetry) - Music - Science
Countries:   Canada - Great Britain -
Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors
Category: Establishments - Disestablishments
Births - Deaths - Works

Year 1737 (MDCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1737

January - June

• May 28 - The planet Venus passes 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 21 - In Britain the Theatrical Licensing Act requires plays to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for censorship.
• 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.

July - December

• July - Austria enters the Russo-Turkish War.
• 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 an estimated magnitude of 9.3 occurs off the shore of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tsunamis up to 60m (200 feet) high followed in the Pacific ocean. [1]
• November 4 - The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.

Undated

• Benjamin Franklin creates the Philadelphia Police Force - the first city-paid force.
• The Georg August University of Göttingen is founded.
• The direct male line of the Medici family becomes extinct with the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
• Richmond, Virginia is founded.
• Our Lady of Guadalupe is designated the patron saint of Mexico City.
• The oldest existing English language newspaper in the world, The (Belfast) News Letter, is founded in Ireland.
• Lancaster County Prison is first constructed.
• Settling of:
  • North Adams, Massachusetts
  • New Salem, Massachusetts
  • Hardwick, Massachusetts
  • Westminster, Massachusetts

Births

1737 in other calendars Gregorian calendar 1737
MDCCXXXVII
Ab urbe condita 2490
Armenian calendar 1186
ԹՎ ՌՃՁԶ
Bahá'í calendar -107 – -106
Berber calendar 2687
Buddhist calendar 2281
Burmese calendar 1099
Byzantine calendar 7245 – 7246
Chinese calendar 丙辰年十二月初一日
(4373/4433-12-1) 丁巳年十一月十一日
(4374/4434-11-11)
Coptic calendar 1453 – 1454
Ethiopian calendar 1729 – 1730
Hebrew calendar 5497 – 5498
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1792 – 1793
 - Shaka Samvat 1659 – 1660
 - Kali Yuga 4838 – 4839
Holocene calendar 11737
Iranian calendar 1115 – 1116
Islamic calendar 1149 – 1150
Japanese calendar Genbun 2
(元文2年)
Korean calendar 4070
Thai solar calendar 2280

• 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)
• September 15 - Miklós Küzmics, Hungarian Slovenes writer, Catholic priest (d. 1804)
• September 19 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, only Roman Catholic 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)

Deaths

• January 17 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
• January 24 - William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1657)
• January 29 - George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
• February 14 - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
• March 16 - Benjamin Wadsworth, American President of Harvard University (b. 1670)
• May 4 - Eustace Budgell, English writer (b. 1686)
• May 10 - Emperor Nakamikado of Japan (b. 1702)
• July 9 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (b. 1671)
• September 7 - John Hickman, convicted forger (b. 1693)
• September 27 - John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester, English privy councillor (b. 1680)
• November 20 - Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
• December 11 - John Strype, English historian and biographer (b. 1643)
• December 18 - Antonio Stradivari, Italian luthier (b. 1644)
• December 19 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (b. 1667)
• December 27 - William Bowyer, English printer (b. 1663)

External links

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