1733

This article is about the year 1733. For the number, see 1733 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1700s  1710s  1720s  – 1730s –  1740s  1750s  1760s
Years:	1730 1731 1732 – 1733 – 1734 1735 1736

1733 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada –Denmark – France – Great Britain – Ireland – Norway – Scotland –Sweden –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1733 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1733 MDCCXXXIII
Ab urbe condita	2486
Armenian calendar	1182 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԲ
Assyrian calendar	6483
Bengali calendar	1140
Berber calendar	2683
British Regnal year	6 Geo. 2 – 7 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2277
Burmese calendar	1095
Byzantine calendar	7241–7242
Chinese calendar	壬子年 (Water Rat) 4429 or 4369     — to — 癸丑年 (Water Ox) 4430 or 4370
Coptic calendar	1449–1450
Discordian calendar	2899
Ethiopian calendar	1725–1726
Hebrew calendar	5493–5494
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1789–1790
- Shaka Samvat	1655–1656
- Kali Yuga	4834–4835
Holocene calendar	11733
Igbo calendar	733–734
Iranian calendar	1111–1112
Islamic calendar	1145–1146
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 18 (享保１８年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4066
Minguo calendar	179 before ROC 民前179年
Thai solar calendar	2275–2276

1733 (MDCCXXXIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (dominical letter D) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Julian calendar, the 1733rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 733rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 33rd year of the 18th century, and the 4th year of the 1730s decade. Note that the Julian day for 1733 is 11 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

1733 - Uliastai, Zavkhan in Mongolia was established.

January–June

• February 12 – British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.
• March – Molasses Act passed by Parliament of Great Britain, which aided in the negative opinions of the British by American Colonists.
• April – Royal Colony of North Carolina Commissioners John Watson, Joshua Grainger, Michael Higgins and James Wimble plan the town of New Carthage (which would eventually become Wilmington, North Carolina on the east side of the Cape Fear River).
• 1 May – canton system is first introduced in Prussia
• May 29 – The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec.

July–December

• July 30 – The first Freemasons lodge opens in what will become the United States of America.
• October 5 – The election of Augustus III to succeed his father as King of Poland sparks the War of the Polish Succession.
• November 23 – 1733 slave insurrection on St. John begins: Slaves from Akwamu rebel against owners in the Danish West Indies.

Births

• January 3 (N.S.) – Richard Arkwright, English businessman and inventor, invented the Water frame (d. 1792)
• January 22 – Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer (d. 1796)
• March 13 – Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804)
• May 4 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799)
• July 27 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
• September 5 – Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet and writer (d. 1813)
• September 18 – George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1798)
• October 14 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
• November 16 – Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent ruler of Bengal of undivided India (d. 1757)

Deaths

• January 22 – Lovisa von Burghausen, Swedish memoirist (b. 1698)
• January 25 – Gilbert Heathcote, Mayor of London (b. 1652)
• January 27 – Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1668)
• February 1 – King Augustus II the Strong of Poland (b. 1670)
• March 4 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
• April 19 – Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney, mistress of William III of England (b. 1657)
• May 10 – Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
• May 18 – Georg Böhm, German organist (b. 1661)
• August 16 – Matthew Tindal, English deist (b. 1657)
• June 23 – Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss scholar (b. 1672)
• September 12 – François Couperin, French composer (b. 1668)
• October 25 – Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian mathematician (b. 1667)
• October 31 – Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, (b. 1676)