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Born in 1731:
American
inventor
,
engineer
,
architect
, and
publisher
Benjamin Banneker
.
Martha Dandridge
, future wife of
George Washington
.
English
naturalist
Erasmus Darwin
, who had a more famous
grandson
.
English
poet
and
critic
William Cowper
.
English
chemist
Henry Cavendish
.
English
composer
,
Soprano
and
conductor
Elisabetta de Gambarini
.
English poet
Charles Churchill
.
Bohemian
composer
Frantisek Dusek
.
German composer
Johann Christian Cannabich
.
Died in 1731:
Scottish author
Daniel Defoe
.
English writer
Mary Astell
.
English
mathematician
Brook Taylor
.
Italian
harpsichord
maker
Bartolommeo Cristofori
, inventor of the
piano
.
English tavernkeeper and writer
Edward Ward
.
An Earthquake kills 100,000 people in
Peking
.
Events of 1731:
15-year-old Spanish
Infante
Don Carlos (later King
Carlos III
) inherits the duchy of
Parma
and a claim to
Tuscany
from his mother. Later in the year, he contracts
smallpox
but survives.
Former King
Victor Amadeus II
of (
Piedmont
-)
Sardinia
tries to reassume the throne he
abdicate
d
the previous year
. His son, King
Charles Emmanuel III
has him arrested and put in prison.
The first settlement near the Mission
San Antonio
is established.
The Spanish coast guard catches the English
brig
Rebecca
while smuggling. They board the ship and seize its cargo. During the struggle, the captain of the Rebecca, one Robert Jenkins, has part of his ear cut off.
Several years later
he would produce the preserved ear before Parliament, and a
war
would result.
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Bartolommeo Cristofori
Philip Wharton, Duke of Wharton
The Gentleman's Magazine
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How I made the Year Nodes
The Evil Overlord list
The Philokalia
War of Jenkins' Ear
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