1730

This article is about the year 1730.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1700s  1710s  1720s  – 1730s –  1740s  1750s  1760s
Years:	1727 1728 1729 – 1730 – 1731 1732 1733

1730 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1730 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1730 MDCCXXX
Ab urbe condita	2483
Armenian calendar	1179 ԹՎ ՌՃՀԹ
Assyrian calendar	6480
Bengali calendar	1137
Berber calendar	2680
British Regnal year	3 Geo. 2 – 4 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2274
Burmese calendar	1092
Byzantine calendar	7238–7239
Chinese calendar	己酉年 (Earth Rooster) 4426 or 4366     — to — 庚戌年 (Metal Dog) 4427 or 4367
Coptic calendar	1446–1447
Discordian calendar	2896
Ethiopian calendar	1722–1723
Hebrew calendar	5490–5491
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1786–1787
- Shaka Samvat	1652–1653
- Kali Yuga	4831–4832
Holocene calendar	11730
Igbo calendar	730–731
Iranian calendar	1108–1109
Islamic calendar	1142–1143
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 15 (享保１５年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4063
Minguo calendar	182 before ROC 民前182年
Thai solar calendar	2272–2273

1730 (MDCCXXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (dominical letter A) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Julian calendar, the 1730th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 730th year of the 2nd millennium, the 30th year of the 18th century, and the 1st year of the 1730s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1730 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

September 17: Mahmud I.

January–June

• January 29 – Anna Ivanovna (Anna of Russia) becomes empress, following the death of her cousin, Emperor Peter II.
• April 8 – Shearith Israel, the first synagogue in New York City, is dedicated.
• May 15 – Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, retires from his role in the government of Great Britain, leaving Robert Walpole as sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet (i.e., prime minister). In the new Walpole Ministry, Sir William Strickland, 4th Baronet, becomes Secretary at War, and Henry Pelham is Paymaster of the Forces. Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington briefly becomes Lord Privy Seal.
• May – At the urging of Sir William Gooch, the Virginia House of Burgesses passes the Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730 to regulate the quality of Virginian tobacco and establish inspection warehouses near plantations in the tidewater region.
• Establishment of Wright's Ferry under the authority of the Province of Pennsylvania triggers Cresap's War – a nine-year-long conflict also known as the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute – the conflict mainly centered in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and York County, Pennsylvania on either banks of the Susquehanna River.

July–December

• July 8 – 1730 Valparaiso earthquake in Chile.
• July 12 – Pope Clement XII succeeds Pope Benedict XIII as the 246th pope.
• September 17 – Mahmud I (1730–1754) succeeds Ahmed III (1703–1730) as Ottoman Emperor.
• October 22 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal linking the Neva and Svir Rivers, one of the first major navigable canals constructed in Russia, is completed.

Date unknown

• The Glasite sect is formed.

Births

• March 7 – Baron de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807)
• April 16 – Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
• April 26 – John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1805)
• May 13 – Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782)
• June 21 – Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar of the kokugaku school (d. 1801)
• July 10 - Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, French Freemason (d. 1824)
• July 12 – Josiah Wedgwood, English potter and abolitionist (d. 1795)
• July 26 – Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
• August 27 - Johann Georg Hamann, German philosopher (d. 1788)
• September 17 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
• November 23 – William Moultrie, American general (d. 1805)
• December 14 – James Bruce, Scottish explorer (d. 1794)
• December 25 – Philip Mazzei, Italian physician and friend of Thomas Jefferson (d. 1816)
• December 30 – William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary (d. 1803)
• date unknown
  • John Cook, American farmer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)
  • John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, (Lord Dunmore) (d. 1809)

Deaths

• January 1
  • Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician (b. 1647)
  • Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (b. 1652)
• January 29 – Emperor Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)
• February 21 – Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)
• March 9 – Frances Talbot, Countess of Tyrconnel (b. c. 1647)
• March 20 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
• March 23 – Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (b. 1654)
• May 30 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
• June 18 Yinxiang, Qing Dynasty prince (b. 1686)
• July 7 – Olivier Levasseur, French pirate
• July 18 – François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)
• September 27 – Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)
• October 12 – Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671)
• October 15 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)
• October 23 – Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
• November 21 – François de Troy, French portrait artist (b. 1645)