1737 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1737?
- September 20, 1737 – The finish of the Walking Purchase which forces the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
- November 4, 1737 – The Teatro di San Carlo is inaugurated.
Who Were Born In The Year 1737?
- January 12, 1737 – John Hancock, American merchant, statesman, & Founding Father; 4th & 13th President of the Continental Congress; and 1st & 3rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1793)
- January 23, 1737 – John Hancock, American patriot (d. 1793)
- January 29, 1737 – Thomas Paine, English-born American patriot (d. 1809)
- February 9, 1737 – Thomas Paine, English radical liberal philosopher, American revolutionary (d. 1809)
- March 9, 1737 – Josef Mysliveček, Czech composer (d. 1781)
- March 15, 1737 – Amarindra, Queen consort to King Rama I of Siam (d. 1826)
- March 20, 1737 – Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809)
- April 27, 1737 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794)
- May 2, 1737 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805)
- May 14, 1737 – George Mcartney, Irish-born British statesman (d. 1806)
- May 20, 1737 – William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (d. 1805)
- June 20, 1737 – Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1786)
- July 15, 1737 – Princess Louise Marie of France, daughter of King Louis XV of France (d. 1787)
- July 31, 1737 – Princess Augusta of Great Britain (d. 1813)
- August 10, 1737 – Anton Losenko, Russian painter (d. 1773)
- September 9, 1737 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
- September 14, 1737 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
- October 2, 1737 – Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
- October 31, 1737 – James Lovell, American educator (d. 1789)
- December 26, 1737 – Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815)
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