1737

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1734
  • 1735
  • 1736
  • 1737
  • 1738
  • 1739
  • 1740
June 30: Russians take 4,000 Ottoman defenders prisoner in conquest of Ochakiv..
1737 in various
Minguo calendar
175 before ROC
民前175年
Nanakshahi calendar269
Thai solar calendar2279–2280
Tibetan calendar阳火龙年
(male Fire-Dragon)
1863 or 1482 or 710
    — to —
阴火蛇年
(female Fire-Snake)
1864 or 1483 or 711
March 28: Battle of Delhi

1737 (MDCCXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1737th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 737th year of the 2nd millennium, the 37th year of the 18th century, and the 8th year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1737, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

April–June

  • April 5 – French Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII.
  • April 22
    • In Afghanistan, Persian shah Nader Shah begins the 11-month Siege of Kandahar against the Pashtun Emir of Afghanistan, Hussain Hotak.[7] The surviving Afghanis surrender on March 24, 1738.
    • Lots are first advertised for sale in the new town of Richmond, Virginia, by the placement of a notice by William Byrd in the Virginia Gazette. According to the paper, "... on the North Side of James River, near the Uppermost Landing, and a little below the Falls, is lately laid off by Major Mayo, a Town, called Richmond, with Streets 65 Feet wide, in a pleasant and healthy Situation, and well supply'd with Springs of good Water. It lies near the Publick Warehouse at Shoccoe's, and in the midst of great Quantities of Grain, and all kind of Provisions. The Lots will be granted in Fee Simple, on Condition only of building a House in Three Years Time, of 24 by 16 Feet, fronting within 5 Feet of the Street. The Lots to be rated according to the Convenience of their Situation, and to be sold after this April General Court, by me, William Byrd."[8]
  • Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006
    , it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed.
  • June 21 – In Britain, the Theatrical Licensing Act requires plays to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for censorship.
  • Ochakov, and take prisoner 4,000 Turks
    .

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Births

Thomas Paine

Deaths

Antonio Stradivari

References

  1. ^ Hargreaves-Mawdsley, W. N. (1979). Eighteenth-Century Spain 1700–1788: A Political, Diplomatic and Institutional History. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  2. ^ Hassall, Arthur (1907). The Balance of Power, 1715-1789. New York: Macmillan. p. 119.
  3. ^ Historical Calendar (Philippine National Historical Commission, 1970), p11
  4. ^ "Today in Philippine History", The Kahimyang Project.
  5. ^ "On the cause of the eccentricity of the woody layers which one perceives when one cuts horizontally the trunk of a tree" (De la cause de l'excentricité des couches ligneuses qu'on apperçoit quand on coupe horisontalement le tronc d'un arbre).
  6. ^ a b Marley, David (1998). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the New World, 1492 to the Present. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. p. 250.
  7. ^ Jaffar, Shazia; Raza, Khalid (2018). "Mir Naseer khan Noori, A great Baloch ruler (his victories and policies towards Balochistan)" (PDF). Journal of Education and Humanities Research: 279. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 28, 2020. Retrieved July 28, 2020.
  8. ^ "Advertisement for the Founding of Richmond (1737)", online Encyclopedia of Virginia
  9. ^ Gundogdu, Dr. Raşit (2020). "Mahmud Khan I". The Sultans of the Ottoman Empire. Rumuz Publishing. p. 163.
  10. ^ Davis, Lee, ed. (2004). Natural Disasters. Facts on File Science Library. Facts On File, Inc. p. 241.
  11. ^ Warme, Lars G., ed. (1996). A History of Swedish Literature. University of Nebraska Press. p. 114.
  12. ^ Tsunami: Where they Happen and Why Archived November 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine- Fathom
  13. (in German). Vol. 20. p. 316.
  14. ^ "History of William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne - GOV.UK". www.gov.uk. Retrieved July 1, 2023.
  • The Annual Catalogue – List of History, Divinity, Law, Poetry, Plays, Novels, Painting, Architecture, and all other Sciences books published in London in 1737
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