1731

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Years: 1728 1729 1730 - 1731 - 1732 1733 1734

Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Template:C18YearInTopic

Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May 1.6 June 1.7 July 1.8 August 1.9 September 1.10 October 1.11 November 1.12 December 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• Downing Street becomes the official residence of the United Kingdom's Prime Minister when Robert Walpole moves in.

January

February

March

April

• 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.

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Births

• February - Charles Churchill, English poet (d. 1764)
• May 8 - Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and abolitionist (d. 1809)
• June 21 - Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (d. 1802)
• October 10 - Henry Cavendish, English scientist (d. 1810)
• November 9 -Benjamin Banneker, American surveyor of the District of Columbia (d. 1806)
• November 15 - William Cowper, English poet (d. 1800)
• December 12 - Erasmus Darwin, English scientist and grandfather of Charles Darwin (d. 1802)

Deaths

• January 6 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (b. 1672)
• January 21 - Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
• 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 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
• May 1 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (b. 1677)
• December 26 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (b. 1672)
• December 29 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (b. 1685)af:1731

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