Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1730

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Literature

James Thomson, The Seasons

Theatre

Art

Music

George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Partenope

Science, Technology, & Medicine

René Réaumur invents the alcohol thermometer and temperature scale
George Brandt of Sweden discovers cobalt

Politics & Law

15 May: Sir Robert Walpole becomes Prime Minister
Townshed quarrels with Walpole and resigns as Secretary of State

Theology

Matthew Tindal, Christianity as Old as the Creation
Isaac Watts, Catechisms
Charles Wesley completes his studies at Christ Church, Oxford

Milestones

October 23: Death of Anne Oldfield, actress
Birth of Paul Sandby, painter
Birth of William Smith, actor and manager
Birth of Josiah Wedgwood, potter

Miscellaneous

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