History
1735
General
Population: 729 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Marivaux, PC Nivelle de la Chaussee (comedies), Jonathan Swift (four volumes in Dublin), John Wesley,
Arthur Collins (peerage of England)
Art includes Hogarth "The Rake's Progress"
Music includes Handel, Rameay (ballet opera),
- Religion: Bible translated into Lithuanian
- Science: Linnaeus writes "Systema naturae" introducing binomial nomenclature
Menoit de Maillet writes evolutionary hypothesis
- Deaths: Historian Thomas Hearne
Asia
- China: Manshu ruler works with Russia to define borders
- India: End of Maratha government
Europe
- General: Preliminary Treaty of Vienna ends War of Polish Succession
- German States: German housewife gives birth to "chicken man" with super-size tumor head, preserved in formaldehyde
- Great Britain: William Pitt elected Member of Parliament for Old Sarum
Royal Burgess Golfing Society in Edinburgh founded
To minimize power of cotton industry, England demands wool or linen be mixed with cotton
English deaf mute pressed to death in Nottingham - if only he confessed
- Italian States: Start of Kingdoms of Naples and Sicily
- Poland: End of War of Polish succession as Russia relents
- Russia: Imperial ballet school at St. Petersburg
Middle East
- General: End of Turko-Persian War
- Ottoman Empire: Russia and Persia defeat Turks at Baghavand
- Persia: Nadir Shah, chief adviser and general to last Safavid ruler defeats Turks at Baghavand and captures Tiflis
General
- Law: Zeuger trial establishes freedom of the press
East
- Massachusetts: "Boston Evening Post" issued
- New York: Libel trial of John Peter Zeuger "Weekly Journal" in New York helps establish freedom of the press
Midwest
- Indiana: French settlement at Vincennes - starts European westward expansion
South
- Georgia: Sales of alcohol prohibited
- South Carolina: Ballad Opera first musical theater in America at Charleston