1735

Year 1735 (MDCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1735

January - June

* January 8 - George Frideric Handel's opera "Ariodante" premieres at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
* April 13 - Emperor Sakuramachi accedes to the throne of Japan.
* April 16 - "Alcina", George Frideric Handel's first Italian opera, premieres at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London.

July - December

* July 11 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved closer to the Sun than Neptune for the last time before 1979.
* August 4 - Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
* October - War of the Polish Succession: A preliminary peace, ratified in 1738, is concluded.
* The Qianlong Emperor succeeds Yongzheng and begins a 60-year-long reign of the Qing Dynasty.

Undated

* Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces fail to occupy the Crimea due to rasputitsa.
* The French make peace with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (until 1740).
* A shipbuilding industry begins in Mumbai.
* Carolus Linnaeus publishes his "Systema Naturae".
* The reign of Emperor Nakamikado of Japan ends.
* George Hadley correctly explains global circulation for the first time.
* The King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) is completed.
* Etienne Fourmont writes "Réflexions critiques sur les histoires des anciens peuples".
* Construction begins on the "Chemin du roy" between Quebec and Montreal.
* William Hogarth Publishes "A Rake's Progress".
* Edmund Curll tries to publish "Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence", the stock of which is subsequently seized.
* Augusta, Georgia, is founded.

Births

* January 1 - Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot (d. 1818)
* January 8
**John Carroll (priest) first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S. (d. 1815)
**John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1823)
* January 27 - Étienne Clavière, French financier and politician (d. 1793)
* February 28 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist (d. 1796)
* April 13 - Isaac Low, New York delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791)
* May 1 - Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Spanish Jesuit philologist (d. 1809)
* May 23 - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, (d. 1814)
* September 5 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
*September 20 - James Keir, Scottish geologist, chemist, and industrialist (d. 1820)
* September 28 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1811)
* October 1 - Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (d. 1811)
* October 9 - Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (d. 1806)
* October 21 - Richard Gough, English antiquary (d. 1809)
* October 30 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
* November 10 - Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d. 1813)
* December 29 - Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist (d. 1805)
* December 31 - Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer (d. 1813)
*"date unknown" - John Julius Angerstein, English merchant and insurer (d. 1822)

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Deaths

* January 12 - John Eccles, British composer (b. 1668)
* January 18 - Maria Clementina Sobieski, Polish princess (b. 1702)
* February 27 - John Arbuthnot, British physician and author (b. 1667)
* April 5 - William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657)
* April 5 - Samuel Wesley, English poet and religious leader (b. 1662)
* June 10 - Thomas Hearne, British antiquarian (b. 1678)
* September 27 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (drowned) (b. 1705)
* October 8 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
* December 14 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)

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Notes

*Chinese Calendar: Yongzheng-13 雍正十三年