1734
year
1734 (MDCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1734th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 734th year of the 2nd millennium, the 34th year of the 18th century, and the 5th year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1734, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1700s 1710s 1720s – 1730s – 1740s 1750s 1760s |
| Years: | 1731 1732 1733 – 1734 – 1735 1736 1737 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1734 MDCCXXXIV |
| Ab urbe condita | 2487 |
| Armenian calendar | 1183 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԳ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6484 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1655–1656 |
| Bengali calendar | 1141 |
| Berber calendar | 2684 |
| British Regnal year | 7 Geo. 2 – 8 Geo. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2278 |
| Burmese calendar | 1096 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7242–7243 |
| Chinese calendar | 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4430 or 4370 — to — 甲寅年 (Wood Tiger) 4431 or 4371 |
| Coptic calendar | 1450–1451 |
| Discordian calendar | 2900 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1726–1727 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5494–5495 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1790–1791 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1655–1656 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4834–4835 |
| Holocene calendar | 11734 |
| Igbo calendar | 734–735 |
| Iranian calendar | 1112–1113 |
| Islamic calendar | 1146–1147 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 19 (享保１９年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1658–1659 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4067 |
| Minguo calendar | 178 before ROC 民前178年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 266 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2276–2277 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴水牛年 (female Water-Ox) 1860 or 1479 or 707 — to — 阳木虎年 (male Wood-Tiger) 1861 or 1480 or 708 |
Events
change- January 8 – Premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- June 17 – French troops take Philippsburg, but the Duke of Berwick is killed
- June 21 – In Montreal in New France, a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured then hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
- June 30 – Russian troops take Gdańsk (German: Danzig) which had been besieged since October 1733. Gdańsk is captured after the failure of a French expedition to relieve the city
Births
- for more information, see Category:1734 births.