- Mar 28 Parliament sends an address to the king requesting that he demand redress from Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
Music Premiere
Apr 15 Premiere in London of "Serse", an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel
George Frideric Handel
Event of Interest
May 24 John Wesley is converted, launching the Methodist movement; celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day
John Wesley
- May 25 A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
- May 27 Turkish troops occupy Orsova and Ochakov in eastern Europe
- Jul 20 North America: French explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan
- Aug 2 France offers emperor Karel VI mediation in war against Turkey
Contract of Interest
Sep 26 Scottish philosopher David Hume enters into a contract to publish the first two volumes of his seminal work "A Treatise of Human Nature" with John Noon in London
David Hume