1734

• American frontiersman Daniel Boone.
• English mathematician Edward Waring.
• American merchant Robert Morris, in Liverpool.
• English painter George Romney.
• Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer, developer of the theory of animal magnetism.
• English painter Joseph Wright.

• German chemist Georg Stahl, inventor of phlogiston theory and vitalism theory.
• English dramatist John Dennis.
• French composer Nicolas Bernier.

• The War of the Polish Successsion rages on.
• (April 1) Austria declares war against France.
• (May 25) Spain, under infante Don Carlos, conquers Naples and Sicily and is crowned King of the Two Sicilies.
• France overruns Lorraine but Austrian Prince Eugene keeps the Franch army from making progress in Germany.
• The French are unable to relieve the Russian siege of Gdansk, which falls in (June).  Stanislaus Leszczynski, the candidate for the Polish throne favored by the Polish, flees to Prussia.
• (November) Some Polish nobles form a confederation to drive out the Russians and Austrians but this is ineffectual.
• Bishop George Berkeley publishes The Analyst attacking mathematical techniques of the time, especially infinitesimal calculus.
• Emmanuel Swedenborg publishes his own Principia, outlining his theory of how the Earth formed.  This is where the nebular hypothesis has its origin.

1733 - 1734 - 1735

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