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- Feb 3 Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily
- Mar 25 Construction begins on evangelist George Whitefield's Bethesda Orphanage in Georgia
- Jun 22 King Frederik II of Prussia ends torture and guarantees religion & freedom of the press
- Jul 11 Jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Tsarina Anne
- Jul 17 Prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
- Aug 13 Hunger strike in Rotterdam
- Oct 8 Chinese assault on Diestpoort, Batavia
- Oct 9 Dutch governor general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8,000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia
- Oct 12 English evangelist George Whitefield preaches to 30,000 people in Boston in the US during the 'Great Awakening'
- Oct 17 Ivan VI becomes Tsar of Russia
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