1735
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Events
- 16 April – The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
- August 4 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
- October – War of the Polish Succession concludes a preliminary peace, ratified in 1738
- Battle of Trepani in the War of the Polish Succession
- French make peace with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (until 1740)
- Ship building industry begins in Mumbai
- Carolus Linnaeus publishes his System of Nature
- End of the reign of Emperor Nakamikado of Japan
- Emperor Sakuramachi ascends to the throne of Japan
- Euler-Maclaurin formula developed
- George Hadley correctly explains global circulation for the first time
- King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) is completed
- Etienne Fourmont writes Réflexions critiques sur les histoires des anciens peuples
- The Qianlong Emperor succeeds Yongzheng and begins a 60-year-long reign of the Qing Dynasty.
- Construction begins on the Chemin du roy between Quebec and Montreal
- William Hogarth Publishes "A Rakes Progress"
- Edmund Curll tries to publish "Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence" The stock of which is subsequently seized
- Augusta, Georgia is founded
Births
- January 1 – Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot (d. 1818)
- January 8 – John Carroll first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S. (d. 1815)
- February 28 – Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist (d. 1796)
- April 13 – Isaac Low, New York delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791)
- May 1 – Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Spanish Jesuit philologist (d. 1809)
- September 5 – Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
- October 1 – Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (d. 1811)
- October 9 – Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (d. 1806)
- October 21 – Richard Gough, English antiquary (d. 1809)
- October 30 – John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
- November 10 – Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d. 1813)
- December 29 – Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist (d. 1805)
- December 31 – Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer (d. 1813)
- John Julius Angerstein, English merchant and insurer (d. 1822)
- Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, (d. 1814)
- Étienne Clavière, French financier and politician (d. 1793)
- James Keir, Scottish geologist, chemist, and industrialist (d. 1820)
Deaths
- January 12 – John Eccles, British composer (b. 1668)
- January 18 – Maria Clementina Sobieski, Polish princess (b. 1702)
- February 27 – John Arbuthnot, British physician and author (b. 1667)
- June 10 – Thomas Hearne, British antiquary (b. 1678)
- September 27 – Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (b. 1705)
- October 8 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
- December 14 – Thomas Tanner (bishop), British antiquary and prelate (b. 1674)
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