1730: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

Events

• Pope Clement XII elected
• September 17 - Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Ahmed III (1703-1730) to Mahmud I (1730-1754)
• Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) became czarina

• July 12 - Josiah Wedgwood, potter (died 1795)
• July 26 - Charles Messier, astronomer (died 1817)
• November 23 - William Moultrie, American General
• William Hamilton, British diplomat and antiquary (died 1803)
• Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, British Whig politician, prime minister 1765-66 and 1782 (died 1782)

• February 23 - Pope Benedict XIII
• October 15 - Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer
• Peter II of Russia (born 1715)