April 6 » At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.
May 18 » Slavery in Rhode Island is abolished, although the law is not rigorously enforced.
June 20 » Tarhoncu Ahmed Pasha is appointed Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
August 16 » Battle of Plymouth: Inconclusive naval action between the fleets of Michiel de Ruyter and George Ayscue in the First Anglo-Dutch War.
September 7 » Around 15,000 Han farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan.
December 10 » Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.
Day of death December 29, 1735
The temperature on December 29, 1735 was about 4.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northwest. Weather type: regen betrokken. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The premiere of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante takes place at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
March 10 » An agreement between Nader Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja, Azerbaijan and Russian troops are withdrawn from occupied territories.
July 11 » Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
August 5 » Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
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