Major Events
- Aug 18 First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris
- Oct 7 A cyclone causes 40 foot waves that are believed to have killed 300,000 in Calcutta, India
- Oct 11 Earthquake reported to have killed 300,000 and destroyed half of Calcutta in India. Now thought to have been an exaggerated account of a hurricane which claimed 3,000 of the city's estimated 20,000 residents. [1]
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Who Died in 1737
- Jan 29 George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, British soldier (b. 1666)
- Feb 3 Tommaso Ceva, Italian Mathematician (b. 1648)
- Feb 14 Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (b. 1685)
- Feb 20 Elizabeth Rowe, poet, dies
- Feb 28 Hercule Brehy, Flemish composer and organist, dies at 63
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Antonio Vivaldi
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