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1733
(
MDCCXXXIII
) was a
common year starting on Thursday
of the
Gregorian calendar
and a
common year starting on Monday
of the
Julian calendar
, the 1733rd year of the
Common Era
(CE) and
Anno Domini
(AD) designations, the 733rd year of the
2nd millennium
, the 33rd year of the
18th century
, and the 4th year of the
1730s
decade. As of the start of 1733, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Calendar year
Events
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January–March
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April–June
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July–September
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- July 15
– A hurricane off of the coast of the
Florida Keys
wrecks at least 17 Spanish ships.
- July 30
– The first
Freemasons
lodge, the
Grand Lodge of Massachusetts
, opens in what will become the United States of America.
[5]
- August 19
– In
Warsaw
as
Stanislas Leszczynski
appears to be on the verge of being elected King of Poland, Russia, Austria and Saxony sign
Lowenwolde's Treaty
(named for Russian diplomat
Karl Gustav von Lowenwolde
), pledging to go to war to place
Frederick Augustus
, son of the late
King Augustus II
, on the throne.
[6]
- September 12
–
Stanislas Leszczynski
, who had been
King of Poland
from 1704 to 1709 until being driven from the throne by King Augustus II, is returned to office by the vote of the Sejm.
[7]
Russia and Austria protest the election, since King Stanislaus is backed by France and Sweden.
- September 26
– The
Treaty of Turin
is signed in
Turin
as a secret agreement between King
Louis XV of France
and King
Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia
.
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October–December
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Births
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- March 13
–
Joseph Priestley
, English scientist and minister (d.
1804
)
- May 4
–
Jean-Charles de Borda
, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d.
1799
)
- July 27
–
Jeremiah Dixon
, English surveyor and astronomer (d.
1779
)
- September 5
–
Christoph Martin Wieland
, German poet and writer (d.
1813
)
- September 18
–
George Read
, American lawyer and signer of the
Declaration of Independence
(d.
1798
)
- October 14
–
Francois Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt
, Austrian field marshal (d.
1798
)
- October 15
–
Lisa Eriksdotter
, Finnish visionary
- November 16
–
Siraj ud-Daulah
, the last independent ruler of
Bengal
of undivided India (d.
1757
)
- November 20
–
Philip Schuyler
, general in the
American Revolution
,
United States Senator
from
New York
, father of
Angelica Schuyler Church
and
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
(d.
1804
)
- undated
–
Johanna Lofblad
, Swedish actor and singer (d.
1811
)
Deaths
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- February 1
– King
Augustus II the Strong
of Poland (b.
1670
)
- February 2
–
Robert Price (judge)
, British judge and politician (b.
1653
)
- February 16
–
Ulrika Eleonora Stalhammar
, Swedish officer (b.
1683
)
- March 4
–
Claude de Forbin
, French naval commander (b.
1656
)
- April 14
–
Ippolito Desideri
, Italian tibetologist (b.
1684
)
- April 19
–
Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney
, mistress of
William III of England
(b.
1657
)
- April 30
–
Rodrigo Anes de Sa Almeida e Meneses, 1st Marquis of Abrantes
, Portuguese diplomat (b.
1676
)
- May 1
–
Nicolas Coustou
, French artist (b.
1658
)
- May 3
–
Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet
, England (b.
1650
)
- May 10
–
Barton Booth
, English actor (b.
1681
)
- May 18
–
Georg Bohm
, German organist (b.
1661
)
- June 23
–
Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
, Swiss scholar (b.
1672
)
- July 12
–
Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles
, French salon holder (b.
1647
)
- August 16
–
Matthew Tindal
, English deist (b.
1657
)
- August 24
–
Pierre-Etienne Monnot
, French artist (b.
1657
)
- September 12
–
Francois Couperin
, French composer (b.
1668
)
- October 19
–
Sir Thomas Molyneux, 1st Baronet
, Irish politician (b.
1661
)
- October 25
–
Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri
, Italian mathematician (b.
1667
)
- October 31
–
Eberhard Louis, Duke of Wurttemberg
, (b.
1676
)
- November 11
–
Willem Adriaan van der Stel
, Dutch colonial administrator (b.
1664
)
- December 2
–
Gerard Hoet
, Dutch painter (b.
1648
)
References
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- ^
"Historical Events for Year 1733 | OnThisDay.com"
.
Historyorb.com
. Retrieved
June 21,
2016
.
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"The Molasses Act: A Brief History"
,
Journal of the American Revolution
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David F. Burg,
A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)
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Chris E. Fonvielle, Jr.,
Historic Wilmington & the Lower Cape Fear
(Historical Publishing Network, 2007) p18
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"Boston Masons Organize First Grand Lodge in America"
.
massmoments.org
. August 2005
. Retrieved
February 6,
2019
.
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"The imperial heritage of Peter the Great in the foreign policy of his early successors", by E. V. Anisimov, in
Imperial Russian Foreign Policy
, ed. by Hugh Ragsdale (Cambridge University Press, 1993) p30
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Thomas Carlyle,
History of Friedrich the Second, Called Frederick the Great
(Harper & Brothers, 1858) p372
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Douglas M. Gibler,
International Military Alliances, 1648-2008
, (SAGE Publications, 2008) p.85
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Kaveh Farrokh,
Iran at War, 1500-1988
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011) pp110-113