Events

• Pope Clement XII elected
• September 17 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed III (1703-1730) to Mahmud I (1730-1754)
• Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) became czarina

Births

• July 12 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)
• July 26 - Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)
• November 23 - William Moultrie, American general
• William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary (d. 1803)
• Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British Whig politician and prime minister (d. 1782)
• Louis-Auguste, Baron de Breteuil, last Prime Minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807)
• John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1805)

Deaths

• February 23 - Pope Benedict XIII
• March 20 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
• October 15 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer
• Peter II of Russia (born 1715)