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Year '1730' ('MDCCXXX') was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

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Events of 1730

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1730

January - June

★ January 29 - Anna Ivanova (Anna of Russia) becomes czarina.

July - December

★ July 12 - Pope Clement XII succeeds Pope Benedict XIII as the 246th pope.

★ September 17 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed III (1703-1730) to Mahmud I (1730-1754).

Undated

★ Glasite sect formed.

Births

★ March 7 - Baron de Breteuil, last prime minister of the French monarchy (d. 1807)

★ April 16 - Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)

★ May 13 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1782)

★ June 21 - Motoori Norinaga, Japanese philologist and scholar of the kokugaku school (d. 1801)

★ July 12 - Josiah Wedgwood, English potter (d. 1795)

★ July 26 - Charles Messier, French astronomer (d. 1817)

★ September 17 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)

★ November 23 - William Moultrie, American general (d. 1805)

★ December 30 - William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary (d. 1803)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John Cook, American farmer and President of Delaware (d. 1789)

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★ John Moore, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1805)

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★ John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, (Lord Dunmore) (d. February 25, 1809)
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Deaths

★ January 1 - Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English politician (b. 1647)

★ January 1 - Samuel Sewall, English-born judge (b. 1652)

★ January 29 - Tsar Peter II of Russia (b. 1715)

★ February 21 - Pope Benedict XIII (b. 1649)

★ March 20 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)

★ May 30 - Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)

★ July 18 - François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi, French soldier (b. 1644)

★ September 27 - Laurence Eusden, English poet (b. 1688)

★ October 12 - Frederick IV, King of Denmark and Norway (b. 1671)

★ October 15 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (b. 1658)

★ October 23 - Anne Oldfield, English actress (b. 1683)
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