1734
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Centuries: | 17th century - 18th century - 19th century |
Decades: | 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s |
Years: | 1731 1732 1733 - 1734 - 1735 1736 1737 |
[change] Events
- January 8 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- June 17 - French troops take Philippsburg, but the Duke of Berwick is killed
- June 21 - In Montreal in New France, a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured then hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
- June 30 - Russian troops take Gdańsk (German: Danzig) which had been besieged since October 1733. Gdańsk is captured after the failure of a French expedition to relieve the city