- May 27
- The Bank of John Law in France stops specie payments. [496.32]
- June 1
- London restores 0.925 fine silver as sterling coinage standard, after 23 years of the Britannia 0.958 standard. [428.42] [638.32]
- June 10
- Mrs Clements of England markets first paste-style mustard. [1]
- September
- South Sea Bubble pops, as South Sea Company goes bankrupt. [832.83]
- November 9
- Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire. [1]
1721
- January 25
- Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy. [1]
- March 9
- English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower. [1]
- March 24
- Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts. [1]
- March 27
- France and Spain sign Treaty of Madrid. [1]
- April 3
- Robert Walpole becomes England's first Lord of the Treasury. [1]
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- April 26
- Smallpox vaccination first administrated. [1]
- May 8
- Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII. [1]
- May 25
- John Copson becomes America's first insurance agent. [1]
- May 29
- South Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony. [1]
- August 30
- The Treaty of Nystadt ends the war between Sweden and Russia. Sweden loses Livonia, Estonia, Ingria, and East Karelia incluing Viborg. Russia returns Finland, and pays two million riksdaler. Russia agrees not to interfere in Swedish internal affairs or royal succession. [7]
1722
- January 24
- Czar Peter the Great begins civil system. [1]
- Edward Wigglesworth appointed first US divinity professor (Harvard). [1]
- March 8
- Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia. [1]
- March 17
- Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente. [1]
- April 5
- Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island. [1]
- April 6
- Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards. [1]
- April 22
- Nineteen VOC "komplotteurs" in Batavia executed. [1]
- April 30
- The game of Billiards is mentioned in the New England Courant. [1]
- May 3
- Pierre de Marivaux' "La Double Inconstance" premieres in Paris France. [1]
1723
- January 12
- Händel's opera "Ottone" premieres, London. [1]
- January 23
- Georg Friedrich Händel's opera "Ottone" premieres in London. [1]
- April 23
- Cornelis Steenoven elected archbishop of Utrecht. [1]
- December 6
- Emperor Karel VI's Pragmatic Sanctie declares Constitution. [1]
1724
- January 14
- King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne in favor of his son, Luis I. [627.15]
- April 1
- Henry Pelham becomes English minister of War. [1]
- Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters. [1]
- April 6
- Duke of Newcastle becomes English minister of Foreign Affairs. [1]
- April 7
- Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig. [1]
- April 16
- First Easter observed. [1]
- December 9
- Colley Cibber's "Caesar in Aegypt" premieres in London. [1]
- December 23
- Emperor Charles VI names Maria Elisabeth land guardian of Australia Netherlands. [1]
- December 24
- Benjamin Franklin arrives in London. [1]
1725
- January 4
- Benjamin Franklin arrives in London. [1]
- February 20
- Ten sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty. [1]
- March 2
- Georg F Händels opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" premieres in London. [1]
- April 30
- Emperor Charles VI and King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna. [1]
- May 1
- Spain and Austria sign trade treaty. [1]
1726
- May 5
- Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opéra of Paris France. [1]
- May 24
- People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax. [1]
1727
- April 6
- Denmark signs Covenant of Hannover. [1]
- May 7
- Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia. [1]
- May 29
- Peter II Aleksei (11) becomes czar of Russia. [1]
- May 31
- The Equivalent Company is incorporated by royal charter as the Royal Bank of Scotland. [410.80] [638.32]
- France, England and Netherlands sign accord of Paris. [1]
- June 11
- King George II proclaimed in England. [309.65]
- October 29
- Severe earthquake in New England. [1]
- November 18
- In Tabriz, Iran, a powerful earthquake occurs, claiming 77,000 deaths. [53]
1728
- January 29
- John Gays' "Beggar's Opera" premieres in London. [1]
- February 28
- Georg F Händels opera "Siroe, re di Persia" premieres in London. [1]
- March 6
- Spain and England sign (first) Convention of Pardo. [1]
- April 22
- Pierre de Marivaux' "Le Triomphe de Plutus", premieres in Paris France. [1]
- May 4
- Georg F Händels opera "Tolomeo, re di Egitto" premieres in London. [1]
- December 17
- Congregation Shearith Israel of New York purchases a lot on Mill Street in lower Manhattan, to build New York's first synagogue. [1]
- December 23
- Prussian Emperor Karel VI sign Treaty of Berlin. [1]
1729
- March 15
- Sister Saint Stanislas Hachard, first US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans. [1]
- April 15
- Johann S Bachs "Matthäus Passion" premieres in Leipzig. [1]
- July 25
- North Carolina becomes royal colony. [1]
- July 30
- City of Baltimore founded. [1] [5]
1730
- January 11
- Death of Jane Wenham in Hertfordshire, England; last person to be convicted of witchcraft in England (1712). [1615.11]
- February 28
- Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy. [1]
- March 16
- Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe. [1]
- April 8
- First Jewish congregation in US consecrates synagogue, "Shearith Israel, New York City". [1]
- May 15
- Robert Walpole becomes England first prime minister (was chief minister). [1]
1731
- January 10
- Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza. [1]
- March 16
- Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England and Netherlands. [1]
- May 28
- All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated. [1]
- December 22
- Dutch people revolt against meat tax. [1]
- December 30
- First US music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston). [1]
1732
- January 21
- Russia and Persia sign Treaty of Riascha. [1]
- January 29
- Paris churchyard Saint-Médard closed after Jansenistic ritual. [1]
- February 1
- Parliament of Ratisborn accept Pragmatic Sanctions. [1]
- February 2
- King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia. [1]
- February 20
- Estates of Holland ratifies Treaty of Vienna. [1]
- February 26
- First mass celebrated in American Catholic church, (Saint Joseph's Church, Philadelphia). [1]
- June 9
- Royal charter for Georgia granted to James Oglethorpe. [1]
- November 14
- First US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia. [1]
- December 6
- First play in American colonies acted by professional players, New York City, New York. [1]
- December 19
- Benjamin Franklin (under the name Richard Saunders) begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack". [1]
- December 28
- First known ad for "Poor Richard's Almanack" (Pennsylvania Gazette). [1]
1733
- January 13
- James Oglethorpe and 130 English colonists arrive at Charleston, South Carolina. [1]
- January 18
- First polar bear exhibited in America (Boston). [1]
- February 12
- Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah. [1]
- March 22
- Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer). [1]
- May 12
- Maria Theresa crowned queen of Bohemia in Prague. [1]
- May 17
- England passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum and molasses imported to the colonies from a country other than British possessions. [1]
- June 15
- Denmark purchases Saint Croix island in the Caribbean from France. [552.78]
- July 30
- Society of Freemasons opens first American lodge in Boston. [1]
1734
- March 10
- Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples. [1]
- March 14
- Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne. [1]
- March 24
- Netherlands' William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover. [1]
- November 17
- John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York colonial governor; later acquitted. [1]
- December 13
- England and Russia sign trade agreement. [1]
1735
- February 3
- Dutch treasure ship Vliegenthart runs aground and sinks off Zealand, Holland. [687.68]
- February 18
- First opera performed in America, "Flora", in Charleston South Carolina. [1]
- March 13
- First US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany. [1]
- August 4
- Jury acquits John Zenger (New York Weekly Journal) charged with seditious libel by royal governor of New York (victory for Freedom of press). [1]
1736
- January 26
- Stanislaw Lesczynski flees Polish throne. [1]
- January 27
- Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland. [1]
- February 5
- Methodists John and Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah Georgia. [1]
- February 12
- Maria Theresa Habsburg marries French Stefanus (emperor François I). [1]
- February 19
- George Frideric Händel's "Alexander's Feast" premieres. [1]
- May 26
- Battle of Ackia (Louisiana), British and Chickasaw Indians defeat the French. [1]
1737
- February 20
- French minister of Finance, Chauvelin, resigns. [1]
- March 12
- Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy. [1]
- April 4
- Anthony van Heim installed as Dutch pension advisor. [1]
- October 7
- 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India). [1]
- October 11
- Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India. [1]
1738
- March 28
- English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear). [1]
- April 15
- Bottle opener invented. [1]
- May 9
- England routes fleet in Mediterranean Sea and West-Indies. [1]
- May 24
- Methodist Church is established. [1]
- May 27
- Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov. [1]
- December 9
- Jews are expelled from Breslau Silesia. [1]
1739
- January 1
- J B C Bouvet de Lozier discovers Bouvet Island, near Antarctica. [1]
- January 14
- England and Spain signs second Convention of Pardo. [1]
- April 5
- French emperor Karel VI sign secret treaty. [1]
- April 21
- Spain and Naples-Austria sign peace accord. [1]
- September 1
- 35 Jews sentenced to life in prison in Lisbon Portugal. [1]
- September 9
- Slave revolt in Stono South Carolina led by Jemmy (25 whites killed). [1]
- September 18
- Treaty of Belgrade-Austria cedes Belgrade to Turks. [1]
- October 19
- British declare war on Spain. [1321.11]
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