1737

Years: 1734 1735 1736 - 1737 - 1738 1739 1740
Decades: 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Events

12 February — The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated.
May 28 — The planet Venus passed in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening hours by the amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2005, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed.
Benjamin Franklin created the Philadelphia police force - the first city-paid force.
In Britain the Theatrical Licensing Act requires plays to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for censorship.
Georg August University of Göttingen Founded
The Direct male line of the Medici family becomes extinct
Richmond, Virginia founded
San Carlo The oldest Opera House in Europe, opens in Naples, Italy
Austro-Turkish War begins
Our Lady of Guadalupe is designated the patron saint of Mexico City
The (Belfast) News Letter newspaper founded in Ireland
Lancaster County Prison is first constructed
North Adams, Massachusetts first settled
New Salem, Massachusetts first settled
Hardwick, Massachusetts first settled
Westminster, Massachusetts first settled

January 23 - John Hancock, statesman and U.S. revolutionary (+ 1793)
January 29 - Thomas Paine, patriot, radical, pamphleteer (+ 1809)
April 27 - Edward Gibbon, historian
May 20 - William Petty Fitzmaurice, later 2nd Earl of Shelburne & 1st Marquess of Landsdowne, British statesman (+ 1805)
September 9 - Luigi Galvani Italian Physician and Physicist
September 19 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton Signer of the US Declaration of Independence
Frances Abington - English actress
John Hunter - second governor of New South Wales
Abraham Van Buren father of Martin Van Buren
Johann Friedrich Struensee Danish Royal Physician
Tokugawa Ieharu Tenth Shogun of the Japanese Shogunate

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