Major Events
- Jan 8 Premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera "Ariodante" at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
- Mar 10 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
- May 20 1st Jockey Club forms in South Carolina
- Jun 17 French troops occupy Philipsburg at Rhine
- Jun 21 In Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony
- Jun 30 Russian army occupies Danzig
- Nov 8 Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands
- Nov 17 Printer John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY colonial governor William Cosby; later acquitted
- Dec 13 Britain and Russia sign trade agreement
- Dec 24 Royal Alcázar of Madrid burns down in Madrid with the lost of many artworks, though paintings of Velázquez are saved
Daniel Boone
Rob RoyFamous Weddings in 1734
- Feb 16 Jurist William Allen (29) weds Margaret Hamilton
- Mar 25 William IV, Dutch Prince of Orange marries Princess Anne of Great Britain, eldest daughter of King George II at St James' Palace
Antonio Vivaldi
Johann Sebastian Bach
Robert Walpole