History
1733
General
Population: 713 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Alexander Pope (essay on man), Voltaire (letters from England)
Music: Bach (short Mass in B Minor), Pergolesi composes opera – early in standard repertoire, Rameau (opera)
- Technology: John Kay patents flying shuttle loom - start of mechanization
- Deaths: Composer François Couperin, King of Poland Augustus II, Johann Adam Birkenstock the sandal guy
Americas
- Caribbean: Santa Cruz (West Indies) comes under Danish control
Asia
Europe
- General: First family pact between Bourbons of France and Spain
France and Austria fight War of Polish Succession to make their candidates Polish king until 1735 - France supports Stanislaus Leszczynski but Russia and the Empire support Augustus
- France: France declares war against Emperor Charles VI
Painter JB Gudry appointed head of Beauvais tapestry factory
- German States: Conscription introduced in Prussia
First German Freemason lodge in Hamburg
Military service becomes compulsory for all young men in Prussia – educational reforms soon follow
- Great Britain: Latin language abolished in English courts
The Serpentine in Hyde Park London first laid out
- Poland: Death of Elector of Saxony King of Poland Augustus II
Russia invades
- Russia: Great bell of Moscow named “Czar Kolokol” cast – 193 tons
Invasion of Poland
General
- Finance: Molasses Act prohibits American trade with French West Indies, especially sugar
East
- General: Corporation for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England founded
- New York: New York Weekly Journal published (Zenger) - see 1735
Influenza epidemic
- Pennsylvania: Influenza epidemic
South
- Georgia: James Oglethorpe founds Savannah – first settlers arrive as debtors colony