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What Happened In History Year 1733

Historical Events for the Year 1733

  • 12th February » Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia (U.S. state) named Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah, Georgia called Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
  • 29th May » The right of Canada Canadians to keep First Nations Indian slavery slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
  • 30th July » The first Freemasonry named Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
  • 23rd November » The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.

Famous Birthdays in 1733

  • 17th January » Thomas Linley the elder English singer and conductor (d. 1795)
  • 22nd January » Philip Carteret, English admiral (d. 1796)
  • 13th March » Joseph Priestley, English chemist, minister, and philosopher (d. 1804)
  • 18th March » Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German author and bookseller (d. 1811)
  • 4th May » Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, and sailor (d. 1799)
  • 11th May » Princess Victoire of France (d. 1799)
  • 22nd May » Hubert Robert, French painter (d. 1808)
  • 20th June » Betty Washington Lewis, American sister of George Washington (d. 1797)
  • 22nd July » Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
  • 27th July » Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
  • 18th September » George Read (U.S. statesman) known as George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd List of Governors of Delaware or Governor of Delaware (d. 1798)
  • 14th October » François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
  • 28th October » Franz Ignaz von Beecke, German composer (d. 1803)

Famous Deaths in History for 1733

  • 25th January » Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (b. 1652)
  • 27th January » Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
  • 1st February » Augustus II the Strong, Polish king (b. 1670)
  • 4th March » Claude de Forbin, French admiral (b. 1656)
  • 19th April » Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney (b. 1655)
  • 10th May » Barton Booth, English actor (b. 1681)
  • 18th May » Georg Böhm, German organist and composer (b. 1761)
  • 23rd June » Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, Swiss paleontologist and scholar (b. 1672)
  • 16th August » Matthew Tindal, English philosopher and author (b. 1657)
  • 11th September » François Couperin, French organist and composer (b. 1668)
  • 25th October » Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri, Italian priest, mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1667)
  • 31st October » Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1676)

Historical events for the year 1733 by month