1731

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Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s – 1730s – 1740s 1750s 1760s
Years:	1728 1729 1730 – 1731 – 1732 1733 1734

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Year 1731 (MDCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

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March 16 – The Treaty of Vienna is signed between the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Spain.
April 2 – The town of Raynham, Massachusetts in Bristol County is entered as a new town by the governor and court of Massachusetts, New England, America.

John Bevis observes the Crab Nebula for the first time.
Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor George Burrington asks the North Carolina General Assembly to pass an act establishing a town on the Cape Fear River, in what is seen as a political move to shift the power away from the powerful Cape Fear plantation class. The town is laid out in 1733 and incorporated as Wilmington in 1740.
English Captain Charles Gough rediscovers Gough Island in the South Atlantic.
Laura Bassi becomes the first official female university teacher on being appointed professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna at the age of 21.^[1]
The Royal Theatre of Mantua (Italy) is built by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena.
Benjamin Franklin starts the Library Company of Philadelphia.

February – Charles Churchill, English poet (d. 1764)
April 8 – William Williams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1811)
May 8 – Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and abolitionist (d. 1809)
June 2 – Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
August – Henry Constantine Jennings, English gambler and collector (d. 1819)
October 10 – Henry Cavendish, English scientist (d. 1810)
November 9 – Benjamin Banneker, African-American astronomer and surveyor of the District of Columbia (d. 1806)
November 15 – William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
December 8 – František Xaver Dušek, Czech composer (d. 1799)
December 12 – Erasmus Darwin, English scientist and grandfather of Charles Darwin (d. 1802)
December 28 – José de Viera y Clavijo, Spanish writer

January 6 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
January 27 – Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (b. 1655)
February 22 – Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (b. 1638)
March 8 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
April 24 or April 26 – Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
May 1 – Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
August 27 – Eudoxia Lopukhina, divorced wife of Peter the Great of Russia (b. 1669)
December 17 – George Lockhart, writer, spy and politician (duel)
December 26 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (b. 1672)
December 29 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)

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