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1739

October 23 - Great Britain declares war on Spain. This becomes known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.

Great Britain

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1737

Benjamin Franklin created the Philadelphia police force - the first city-paid force.

USA

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1736

Porteous Riots erupt in Edinburgh after execution of a smuggler Andrew Wilson when town guard captain John Porteous orders his men to fire at the crowd. Porteous is arrested later

Scotland

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1735

April 16 - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden.
July 11 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved from the ninth to the eighth most distant planet from the Sun for the last time before 1979.
August 4 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
October - War of the Polish Succession concludes a preliminary peace, ratified in 1738
Battle of Trepani in the War of the Polish Succession
French make peace with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (until 1740)
Ship building industry begins in Mumbai
Carolus Linnaeus publishes his Systema Naturae
End of the reign of Emperor Nakamikado of Japan
Emperor Sakuramachi ascends to the throne of Japan
Euler-Maclaurin formula developed
George Hadley correctly explains global circulation for the first time
King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) is completed
Etienne Fourmont writes Réflexions critiques sur les histoires des anciens peuples
The Qianlong Emperor succeeds Yongzheng and begins a 60-year-long reign of the Qing Dynasty.
Construction begins on the Chemin du roy between Quebec and Montreal
William Hogarth Publishes "A Rakes Progress"
Edmund Curll tries to publish "Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence" The stock of which is subsequently seized
Augusta, Georgia is founded

credits to Wikipedia...

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1734

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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. Poland.

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1733

May 29 - Right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves upheld at Quebec.

Canada

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1732

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13964221 members of the Paris Parlement are exiled by order of the Duke, but are eventually triumphant over the Crown, and secure their recall in December.

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1731

Downing Street becomes the official residence of the United Kingdom's Prime Minister when Robert Walpole moves in.

England

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1730

Baltimore is founded in the Maryland colony.

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1729

The third oldest settlement in Mississippi, Port Gibson, was founded.

USA