Information about 1731

Centuries:	8th century - 9th century - 10th century
Decades:	850s 860s 870s - 880s - 890s 900s 910s
Years:	885 886 887 - 888 - 889 890 891

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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).

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

**1731 in other calendars**
Gregorian calendar	1731 MDCCXXXI
Ab urbe condita	2484
Armenian calendar	1180 ԹՎ ՌՃՁ
Bah' calendar	-113 – -112
Buddhist calendar	2275
Chinese calendar	4367/4427-7-20 (庚戌年七月二十日) — to — 4368/4428-6-30 (辛亥年六月三十日)
Coptic calendar	1447 – 1448
Ethiopian calendar	1723 – 1724
Hebrew calendar	5491 – 5492
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1786 – 1787
- Shaka Samvat	1653 – 1654
- Kali Yuga	4832 – 4833
Holocene calendar	11731
Iranian calendar	1109 – 1110
Islamic calendar	1143 – 1145
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 0 (享保0年)
- Imperial Year	Kōki 2391 (皇紀2391年)
Julian calendar	1776
Korean calendar	4064
Thai solar calendar	2274
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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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Upper Paleolithic

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The 8th century is the period from 701 to 800 in accordance with the Julian calendar in the Christian Era.

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During this century the Middle East, the coast of North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula comes rapidly under Islamic Arab domination.
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As a means of recording the passage of time the 9th century was the century that lasted from 801 to 900.

Western European

"Dark Ages" applied later to this period

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As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000.

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The tenth century is usually regarded as a low point in European history. In China it was also a period of political upheaval.
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list of decades which have articles with more information about them.

During the twentieth century, it became popular to look at that century's decades as historical entities in themselves.
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Centuries: 8th century - 9th century - 10th century

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850–859: Christian "Martyr Movement" in Muslim Córdoba, Spain.

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Rurik establishes the state of Novgorod (later Kievan Rus')

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The Danes invade England (870) and conquer East Anglia.

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885 — Vikings lay siege to Paris

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899 — Death of Alfred the Great

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Construction begins on the first church at the monastery of Cluny.

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-1730- 1731 1732 1733 1734 ^. 1735 ^. 1736 ^. 1737 ^. 1738 ^. 1739 ^. 1740

In science: 1727 1728 1729 -1730- 1731 1732 1733
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-1731- 1732 ^. 1733 ^. 1734 1735 ^. 1736 ^. 1737 ^. 1738 ^. 1739 ^. 1740 ^.
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-1731- 1732 1733 1734 1735 ^. 1736 ^. 1737 ^. 1738 ^. 1739 ^. 1740 ^. 1741

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-1731- 1732 ^. 1733 ^. 1734 1735 ^. 1736 ^. 1737 ^. 1738 ^. 1739 ^. 1740 ^.
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See also: 1730 in Canada, other events of 1731, 1732 in Canada and the list of 'years in Canada'.

Events

1731: Fort St. Pierre on Rainy Lake established by Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye.

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1731 in Great Britain:
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1729 | 1730 | 1731 | 1732 | 1733 Events from the year 1731 in the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Ashanti Confederacy - Opoku Ware I, Asantehene (1720-1750)

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Olimi III, Omukama of Bunyoro (c.1710-1731)

Duhaga, Omukama of Bunyoro (1731-c.1782)

Dahomey - Agadja, King of Dahomey (1708-1732)

Ethiopia
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1730 colonial governors - Events of 1731 - 1732 colonial governors - Colonial governors by year

Portugal

Angola - Paulo Caetano de Albuquerque, Governor of Angola (1726-1732)
Macau - Antonio Moniz Barreto, Governor of Macau (1727-1732)

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Roman numerals is a numeral system originating in ancient Rome, adapted from Etruscan numerals. The system used in classical antiquity was slightly modified in the Middle Ages to produce the system we use today. It is based on certain letters which are given values as numerals.
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