March 6 » The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, the world's longest-running scientific journal.
April 8 » English colonial patents are granted for the establishment of the Monmouth Tract, for what would eventually become Monmouth County in northeastern New Jersey.
June 3 » James Stuart, Duke of York (later to become King James II of England), defeats the Dutch fleet off the coast of Lowestoft.
June 12 » Thomas Willett is appointed the first mayor of New York City.
June 17 » Battle of Montes Claros: Portugal definitively secured independence from Spain in the last battle of the Portuguese Restoration War.
April 11 » William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Great Britain.
April 20 » Deposed monarch James II of England lays siege to Derry.
May 24 » The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics.
August 27 » The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar).
October 26 » General Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera; he died of the disease himself soon after.
December 16 » Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights.
Day of death May 17, 1738
The temperature on May 17, 1738 was about 17.0 °C. There was 44 mm of rainWind direction mainly southwest. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen onweer. Source: KNMI
January 7 » A peace treaty is signed between Peshwa Bajirao and Jai Singh II following Maratha victory in the Battle of Bhopal.
April 15 » Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel receives its premiere performance in London, England.
April 18 » Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") is founded in Madrid.
May 25 » A treaty between Pennsylvania and Maryland ends the Conojocular War with settlement of a boundary dispute and exchange of prisoners.
July 15 » Baruch Laibov and Alexander Voznitzin are burned alive in St. Petersburg, Russia. Vonitzin had converted to Judaism with Laibov's help, with the consent of Empress Anna Ivanovna.
July 20 » Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan.
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