1731

Calendar year
Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
  • 17th century
  • 18th century
  • 19th century
Decades:
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
  • 1750s
Years:
  • 1728
  • 1729
  • 1730
  • 1731
  • 1732
  • 1733
  • 1734
1731: John Bevis becomes first Earth astronomer to observe the Crab Nebula.
1731 by topic
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1731 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1731
MDCCXXXI
Ab urbe condita2484
Armenian calendar1180
ԹՎ ՌՃՁ
Assyrian calendar6481
Balinese saka calendar1652–1653
Bengali calendar1138
Berber calendar2681
British Regnal yearGeo. 2 – 5 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2275
Burmese calendar1093
Byzantine calendar7239–7240
Chinese calendar庚戌年 (Metal Dog)
4428 or 4221
    — to —
辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4429 or 4222
Coptic calendar1447–1448
Discordian calendar2897
Ethiopian calendar1723–1724
Hebrew calendar5491–5492
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1787–1788
 - Shaka Samvat1652–1653
 - Kali Yuga4831–4832
Holocene calendar11731
Igbo calendar731–732
Iranian calendar1109–1110
Islamic calendar1143–1144
Japanese calendarKyōhō 16
(享保16年)
Javanese calendar1655–1656
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4064
Minguo calendar181 before ROC
民前181年
Nanakshahi calendar263
Thai solar calendar2273–2274
Tibetan calendar阳金狗年
(male Iron-Dog)
1857 or 1476 or 704
    — to —
阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
1858 or 1477 or 705
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1731 (MDCCXXXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1731st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 731st year of the 2nd millennium, the 31st year of the 18th century, and the 2nd year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1731, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Calendar year

Events

January–March

April–June

  • April 1Battle of Dabhoi in India is fought between Sarsenapati Trimbakrao Dabhade and Bajirao Peshwa.
  • April 2 – The town of Raynham, Massachusetts in Bristol County is entered as a new town by the governor and court of Massachusetts, New England, America.
  • April 9 – British trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off after his ship, Rebecca is boarded by Spanish coast guards at Havana in Cuba.[3] The incident becomes the casus belli for the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.[4]
  • April 28 – A fire at White's Chocolate House, near St. James's Palace in London, destroys the historic club and the paintings therein, but is kept from spreading by the fast response of firemen.[5]
  • May 10 – The Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy is established by order of the Empress Anna of Russia, who directs Grigory Skornyakov-Pisarev to assume command over the new fleet and to develop Okhotsk as a major port.[6][7]
  • June 4 – The English market town of Blandford Forum is destroyed by fire, with the exception of 26 houses. About one-third of the uninsured losses are paid for by the collection of disaster relief money.[5]

July–September

October–December

Date unknown

Births

Henry Cavendish

Deaths

Bartolomeo Cristofori

References

  1. ^ "The Skafjell Rock Avalanche in 1731", Fjords.com
  2. ^ "History of the palace". Coudenberg Palace. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  3. ^ "List of British Merchant Ships, taken or plundered by the Spaniards", The Political State for the Month of April, 1738 of Great Britain (April 30, 1738) p322.
  4. ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 303. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  5. ^ a b c d "Fires, Great", in The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being an Historical Treasury of Events and Circumstances Connected with the Origin and Progress of Insurance, Cornelius Walford, ed. (C. and E. Layton, 1876) p49
  6. ^ Hubert Howe Bancroft, History of Alaska, 1730-1865 (A. L. Bancroft & Co., 1886) p45
  7. ^ Orcutt Frost, Bering: The Russian Discovery of America (Yale University Press, 2003) p67
  8. ^ Durant Will and Ariel (1965). The Story of Civilization, Volume IX: The Age of Voltaire. Simon & Schuster.
  9. ^ Selley, Peter (2016). "William Cookesley, William Hunter and the first patient to survive removal of the appendix in 1731". Journal of Medical Biography. 24 (2): 180–3. doi:10.1177/0967772015591717. PMID 26758584. S2CID 1708483.
  10. ^ "The Beowulf manuscript was damaged in a fire in Ashburnham House on October 23, 1731" Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine. Cites The Gentleman's Magazine.
  11. ^ "The 18th Century Women Scientists of Bologna". ScienceWeek. 2004. Archived from the original on March 2, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2011.