Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin
Jean Marc Nattier
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Christian Seybold
From Wikipedia
January–June
- January 8 – George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante premieres at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
- April 13 – Emperor Sakuramachi accedes to the throne of Japan.
- April 16 – Alcina, George Frideric Handel's finest Italian opera, premieres at the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden, London.
July–December
- July 11 – Mathematical calculations suggest it was on this day that Pluto moved closer to the Sun than Neptune for the last time before 1979.
- August 4 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he published was true.
- October – War of the Polish Succession: A preliminary peace, ratified in 1738, is concluded.
- The Qianlong Emperor succeeds Yongzheng and begins a 60-year-long reign of the Qing Dynasty.
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