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Year '1731' ('MDCCXXXI') was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1731

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1731

January - June

★ March 16 - Treaty of Vienna signed between the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic and Spain.

July - December

★ December 17 - George Lockhart, writer, spy and politician, is killed in a duel.

Undated

★ John Bevis observes the Crab Nebula for the first time.

★ Royal Colony of North Carolina Governor George Burrington asks the North Carolina General Assembly to pass an act establishing a town on the Cape Fear River in what is seen as a political move to shift the power away from the powerful Cape Fear plantation class. The town is laid out in 1733 and later incorporated as Wilmington in 1740.

★ Royal theatre of Mantua (Italy) built by Ferdinando Galli Bibiena.

Births

★ February - Charles Churchill, English poet (died 1764)

★ February 11 - George Washington, First President USA born

★ May 8 - Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London and abolitionist (died 1809)

★ June 21 - Martha Washington, First Lady of the United States (died 1802)

★ August - Henry Constantine Jennings, English gambler and collector (died 1819)

★ October 10 - Henry Cavendish, English scientist (died 1810)

★ November 9 -Benjamin Banneker, American surveyor of the District of Columbia (died 1806)

★ November 15 - William Cowper, English poet (died 1800)

★ December 8 - František Xaver Dušek, Czech composer (died 1799)

★ December 12 - Erasmus Darwin, English scientist and grandfather of Charles Darwin (died 1802)
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Deaths

★ January 6 - Étienne François Geoffroy, French chemist (born 1672)

★ January 21 - Thomas Woolston, English theologian (born 1669)

★ January 27 - Bartolomeo Cristofori, Italian maker of musical instruments (born 1655)

★ February 22 - Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (born 1638)

★ March 8 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (born 1688)

★ April 24 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (born 1660)

★ May 1 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (born 1677)

★ August 27- Eudoxia Lopukhina, divorced wife of Peter the Great of Russia (b. 1669)

★ December 26 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte, French writer (born 1672)

★ December 29 - Brook Taylor, English mathematician (born 1685)
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