1731
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1700s 1710s 1720s – 1730s – 1740s 1750s 1760s |
| Years: | 1728 1729 1730 – 1731 – 1732 1733 1734 |
| 1731 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – |
| Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science |
| Countries: Canada – Great Britain – |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1731 (MDCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
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[edit] Events of 1731
[edit] January–June
- 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.
[edit] July–December
[edit] Undated
- 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 later incorporated as Wilmington in 1740.
- The Royal Theatre of Mantua (Italy) is built by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena.
- Benjamin Franklin starts the Library Company of Philadelphia.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1731 MDCCXXXI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2484 |
| Armenian calendar | 1180 ԹՎ ՌՃՁ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -113 – -112 |
| Berber calendar | 2681 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2275 |
| Burmese calendar | 1093 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7239 – 7240 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚戌年十一月廿三日 (4367/4427-11-23) — to —
辛亥年十二月初三日(4368/4428-12-3) |
| Coptic calendar | 1447 – 1448 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1723 – 1724 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5491 – 5492 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1786 – 1787 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1653 – 1654 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4832 – 4833 |
| Holocene calendar | 11731 |
| Iranian calendar | 1109 – 1110 |
| Islamic calendar | 1143 – 1144 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 16 (享保16年) |
| Korean calendar | 4064 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2274 |
- 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
- See also Category: 1731 births.
[edit] Deaths
- 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 24/26 – 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)
- See also Category: 1731 deaths.
