Year 1735 (MDCCXXXV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1735

January - June

• January 8 - George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante premieres at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
• April 13 - Emperor Sakuramachi accedes to the throne of Japan.
• April 16 - Alcina, George Frideric Handel's first Italian opera, premieres at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London.

July - December

• July 11 - Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved closer to the Sun than Neptune for the last time before 1979.
• August 4 - 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 published was true.
• October - War of the Polish Succession: A preliminary peace, ratified in 1738, is concluded.
• The Qianlong Emperor succeeds Yongzheng and begins a 60-year-long reign of the Qing Dynasty.

Undated

Carolus Linnaeus.

• Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces fail to occupy the Crimea due to rasputitsa.
• The French make peace with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (until 1740).
• A shipbuilding industry begins in Mumbai.
• Carolus Linnaeus publishes his Systema Naturae.
• The reign of Emperor Nakamikado of Japan ends.
• George Hadley correctly explains global circulation for the first time.
• The King's Highway (Charleston to Boston) is completed.
• Etienne Fourmont writes Réflexions critiques sur les histoires des anciens peuples.
• Construction begins on the Chemin du roy between Quebec and Montreal.
• William Hogarth Publishes A Rake's Progress.
• Edmund Curll tries to publish Mr. Pope's Literary Correspondence, the stock of which is subsequently seized.
• Augusta, Georgia, is founded.

Births

• January 1 - Paul Revere, American silversmith and patriot (d. 1818)
• January 8
  • John Carroll (priest) first Roman Catholic Archbishop in the U.S. (d. 1815)
  • John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, British Royal Navy admiral (d. 1823)
• January 27 - Étienne Clavière, French financier and politician (d. 1793)
• February 28 - Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde French musician and chemist (d. 1796)
• April 13 - Isaac Low, New York delegate to the Continental Congress (d. 1791)
• May 1 - Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Spanish Jesuit philologist (d. 1809)
• May 23 - Charles Joseph, Prince de Ligne, (d. 1814)
• September 5 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer (d. 1782)
• September 20 - James Keir, Scottish geologist, chemist, and industrialist (d. 1820)
• September 28 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1811)
• October 1 - Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton (d. 1811)
• October 9 - Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (d. 1806)
• October 21 - Richard Gough, English antiquary (d. 1809)
• October 30 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States (d. 1826)
• November 10 - Granville Sharp, English abolitionist (d. 1813)
• December 29 - Thomas Banks, English sculptor and artist (d. 1805)
• December 31 - Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer (d. 1813)
• date unknown - John Julius Angerstein, English merchant and insurer (d. 1822)

See also Category: 1735 births.

Deaths

• January 12 - John Eccles, British composer (b. 1668)
• January 18 - Maria Clementina Sobieski, Polish princess (b. 1702)
• February 27 - John Arbuthnot, British physician and author (b. 1667)
• April 5 - William Derham, English minister and writer (b. 1657)
• April 5 - Samuel Wesley, English poet and religious leader (b. 1662)
• June 10 - Thomas Hearne, British antiquarian (b. 1678)
• September 27 - Peter Artedi, Swedish naturalist (drowned) (b. 1705)
• October 8 - Yongzheng Emperor of China (b. 1678)
• December 14 - Thomas Tanner, English bishop and antiquarian (b. 1674)

See also Category: 1735 deaths.

Notes

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