History
1731
General
Population: 697 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include George Lillo (drama), Marivaux, Abbe Prevost, Ralph Cudworth (religious work), Voltaire (history)
Art includes Hogarth "The Harlot's Progress", Nicholas Lancret "La Carmargo"
Music includes Bach, Lodovico Giustini creates first composition for modern piano
- Medicine: Dr. John Arbrthnot first advocates dieting
- Travel: John Hadley invents quadrants for use at sea
- Deaths: Author Daniel Defoe,
Americas
- Canada: French fortify Crown Point on Lake Champlain
The de la Vérendryes inaugurate the lower Saskatchewan fur trade
Asia
- China: Earthquake kills 100,000
Europe
- General: Treaty of Vienna between England, Holland, Spain, and HRE
Russia, Prussia, and HRE agree to oppose Stanislas I in Poland
- German States: JA Hasse becomes Kapellmeister at Dresden Opera with wife Faustina Mordoni as prima donna
- Great Britain: 10 Downing Street built
English factory workers not allowed to emigrate to America
- Holy Roman Empire: Mass expulsion of Protestants form Salzburg - many emigrate to America
- Italian States: Quake in Naples kills 100,000
General
- Religion: Protestants expelled from Salzburg (Austria) settle in America
East
- Massachusetts: Public concerts held in Boston
- Pennsylvania: Building of State House in Philadelphia – later renamed Independence Hall
Benjamin Franklin founds subscription library in Philadelphia
South
- South Carolina: Public concerts held at Charleston