Historical Events
- Feb 28 Tsarina Anna Ivanovna leads autocracy
- Mar 16 Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
- Apr 8 Congregation Shearith Israel opens the 1st North American synagogue in New York City on Mill Street in Lower Manhattan
- Jul 12 Lorenzo Corsini chosen as Pope Clemens XII
- Jul 21 States of Holland put death penalty on "sodomy"
- Aug 4 Crown prince Frederick of Prussia escapes to England
- Sep 17 Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees
- Sep 30 Duke of Savoy Victor Amadeus II abdicates his throne amid scandal after marrying his mistress Anna Canalis di Cumiana
- Oct 12 Christian VI succeeds Frederik IV as king of Denmark
- Dec 3 Colley Cibber is appointed British Poet Laureate under King George II
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Famous Weddings
- Sep 1 US Founding Father Benjamin Franklin establishes a common-law marriage with Deborah Read
Famous People Who Died in 1730
- Jan 1 Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, English Tory statesman, dies at 82
- Jan 1 Samuel Sewall, English-American judge & businessman, dies at 77
- Jan 7 Árni Magnússon, Icelandic scholar and collector of manuscripts (Arnamagnæan Manuscript Collection), dies at 66
- Jan 30 Peter II Alexeyevich, Tsar of Russia (1727-30), dies at 14
- Feb 21 Benedict XIII [Pietro F Orsini], Pope (1724-30), dies at 81
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