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| Gregorian calendar | 1733 MDCCXXXIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2486 |
| Armenian calendar | 1182 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԲ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6483 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1654–1655 |
| Bengali calendar | 1140 |
| Berber calendar | 2683 |
| British Regnal year | 6 Geo. 2 – 7 Geo. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2277 |
| Burmese calendar | 1095 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7241–7242 |
| Chinese calendar | 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4430 or 4223 — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4431 or 4224 |
| Coptic calendar | 1449–1450 |
| Discordian calendar | 2899 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1725–1726 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5493–5494 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1789–1790 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1654–1655 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4833–4834 |
| Holocene calendar | 11733 |
| Igbo calendar | 733–734 |
| Iranian calendar | 1111–1112 |
| Islamic calendar | 1145–1146 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 18 (享保１８年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1657–1658 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4066 |
| Minguo calendar | 179 before ROC 民前179年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 265 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2275–2276 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1859 or 1478 or 706 — to — 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1860 or 1479 or 707 |
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1733 (MDCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1733rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 733rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1733, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
Events
1733 - Uliastai, Zavkhan in Mongolia was established.
January–June
- February 12 – British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.
- March – Molasses Act passed by Parliament of Great Britain, which aided in the negative opinions of the British by American Colonists.
- April – Royal Colony of North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble plan the town of New Carthage (which would eventually become Wilmington, North Carolina on the east side of the Cape Fear River).
- 1 May – canton system is first introduced in Prussia
- May 29 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec.
July–December
- July 30 – The first Freemasons lodge opens in what will become the United States of America.
- October 5 – The election of Augustus III to succeed his father as King of Poland sparks the War of the Polish Succession.
- November 23 – 1733 slave insurrection on St. John begins: Slaves from Akwamu rebel against owners in the Danish West Indies.
Births
- January 3 (N.S.) – Richard Arkwright, English businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame (d. 1792)
- January 22 – Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer (d. 1796)
- March 13 – Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804)
- May 4 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
- July 27 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
- September 5 – Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet and writer (d. 1813)
- September 18 – George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
- October 14 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
- November 16 – Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent ruler of Bengal of undivided India (d. 1757)
Deaths
- January 22 – Lovisa von Burghausen, Swedish memoirist (b. 1698)
- January 25 – Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)
- January 27 – Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1668)
- February 1 – King Augustus II the Strong of Poland (b. 1670)
- March 4 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
- April 19 – Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney, mistress of William III of England (b. 1657)
- May 10 – Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
- May 18 – Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1661)
- August 16 – Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
- June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
- September 12 – François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
- October 25 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667)
- October 31 – Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, (b. 1676)