Year 1734 (MDCCXXXIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).
Events of 1734
January - June
- January 8 - Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Georgia, in America.
- March 12 - Salzburgers arrive at the mouth of the Savannah River, in the British Colony of Georgia.
- June 17 - French troops take Philippsburg, but the Duke of Berwick is killed.
- June 21 - In Montreal, New France, a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is tortured then hanged by the French authorities, in a public ceremony that involves her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
- June 30 - War of the Polish Succession: Russian troops take Gdańsk (German: Danzig), which had been besieged since October 1733. Gdańsk is captured after the failure of a French expedition to relieve the city.
July - December
Births
- February 27 - Thomas Conway, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1800)
- March 19 - Thomas McKean, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1817)
- May 23 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician (d. 1815)
- July 25 - Ueda Akinari, Japanese author and scholar (d. 1809)
- September 3 - Joseph Wright, British painter (d. 1797)
- October 7 - Sir Ralph Abercromby, British general (d. 1801)
- November 2 - Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (d. 1820)
- December 15 - George Romney, English painter (d. 1802)
- December 17 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen, from Braganza Dynasty (d.1816)
- See also Category: 1734 births.
Deaths
- January 6 - John Dennis, English critic and dramatist (b. 1657)
- February 1 - John Floyer, English physician and writer (b. 1649)
- February 1 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (b. 1657)
- March 1 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
- March 21 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
- May 4 - James Thornhill, English painter (b. 1675 or 1676)
- May 24 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
- June 12 - James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, illegitimate son of James II of England and French military commander (b. 1670)
- June 17 - Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars, Marshall of France (b. 1653)
- June 21 - Marie-Joseph Angélique, African slave
- July 22 - Peter King, 1st Baron King, Lord Chancellor of England (b. c. 1669)
- November 14 - Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, French-born mistress of Charles II of England (b. 1649)
- December 28 - Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish clan chief (b. 1671)
- See also Category: 1734 deaths.
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