Historic Event
May 12 Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus sets off from Uppsala on a six-month journey to Lapland
- Sep 2 Pope Clement XII renews anti-Jewish laws of Rome
- Sep 6 VOC dismisses Dutch east indies governor-general Diederik Dare
- Nov 14 First professional librarian in north America, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia
- Dec 6 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players in New York
- Dec 13 Prussia joins Austria and Russia in signing the Treaty of Berlin, a secret treaty regarding succession to the Polish throne
Benjamin Franklin’s Words of Wisdom
Dec 28 Benjamin Franklin under the pseudonym Richard Saunders begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"
