Except for an abortive royal colony established under Major Claus Paarss between 1728 and 1730, colonial Greenland was administered by companies under royal charter until 1908.

In 1730, the new Shah of Persia, Nadir Shah, sought to re-assert Persian sovereignty in Bahrain, bring the island back under central rule and to challenge Oman in the Persian Gulf.

On the death of Peter II, Emperor of Russia, the Russian Supreme Privy Council under Prince Dmitri Galitzine made Anna Empress in 1730.

This was completed by his assistant, the Welsh scholar Moses Williams and the whole work was published in 1730 by his son-in-law William Clarke in a large folio edition under the title Leges Wallicae.

In 1730 he was made superintendent of French affairs in Chandernagore, the town prospered under his administration and grew into great importance.

In 1721, under his father's influence, he was named Colonel général de l ' Infanterie and held that post until 1730.

During the reign of Ahmed III ( 1703 – 1730 ) and under the impetus of his grand vizier İbrahim Paşa, a period of peace ensued.

Catherine I made Volynsky governor of Kazan for a short time, and he held the same post for two years ( 1728 – 1730 ) under Peter II.

From 1730 to 1736 Volynsky served in the army under Munnich.

Jean-Baptiste Willermoz ( born 1730, Lyon, France ; died 1824 also at Lyon ), was initiated into Masonry at the age of 20 in a lodge which operated under the auspices of the Strict Observance.

Prince Marcantonio IV Borghese ( 1730 – 1800 ), who began the recasting of the park's formal garden architecture into an English landscape garden, also set out about 1775, under the guidance of the architect Antonio Asprucci, to replace the now-outdated tapestry and leather hangings and renovate the Casina, restaging the Borghese sculptures and antiquities in a thematic new ordering that celebrated the Borghese position in Rome.

George died just three years later, in 1730, and the village was then under the control of his son Robert Rochfort ( soon to become 1st Earl of Belvedere ).

In the year 1730, however, under Prince-Bishop Friedrich Carl von Schönborn, work on the south block began once more.

In 1720 the Dutch East India Company built a fort and factory called Lijdzaamheid ( Lydsaamheid ) on the spot of Lourenço Marques ( now Maputo ), since April 1721 governed by an Opperhoofd ( Chief facor ), under authority of the Dutch Cape Colony, interrupted by Taylor's pirate occupation from April 1722 to 28 August 1722 ; in December 1730 the settlement was abandoned.

" Under the Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730, one of the 40 tobacco inspection warehouses was chartered: " At the widow Constance's, at Sleepy-Hole Point, in Nansemond County, under one inspection.

Under the Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730, three of the 40 tobacco inspection warehouses were chartered in Nansemond County, under two inspectors, as follows:

Rose Perrine le Roy de la Corbinaye ( December 10, 1730 – August 5, 1799 ) was a French actress, best known under the name of Madame Bellecour.

A second edition, increased to six volumes, under the editorship of Sollom Emlyn ( 1697 – 1754 ), appeared in 1730.

The first three were first recognized by Parliament in 1730 under the general term " special jury ".

Freemasonry in Malta began in 1730 when " Parfait Harmonie ", the first warranted lodge, was formed under the Marseilles ( France ) masonic jurisdiction.

He was one of a family of painters, being the son of the portrait painter François de Troy ( 1645 – 1730 ), under whom he first studied, and at whose expense he first went to Italy from 1699 to 1706, staying in Rome, but also visiting many north Italian cities.

* 1730 BC (+/- 70 years ) in Fuente Álamo for El Argar A2, with six undated A1 layers under it.

Having done much to improve the state of his inheritance in 1684, Victor Amadeus took the decision to abdicate in September 1730. the month before the lonely king having lost most of his family including his favourite son the Prince of Piedmont sought the security of a previous mistress Anna Canalis di Cumiana.

* Victor Amadeus II: 1675 – 1720, 1730 – 1732, as 1st king of Sardinia 1720 – 1730

In 1730, he became the first king in Swedish history to have an official mistress, the young noblewoman Hedvig Taube, who was given the title Countess of Hessenstein.

Frederick IV ( 11 October 1671 – 12 October 1730 ) was the king of Denmark and Norway from 1699 until his death.

Hedvig Taube was a member of a noble family, who suffered from gambling debts when the king noticed the beautiful sixteen-year-old daughter of the family in 1730.

Peshwa Baji Rao I, prime minister to Chattrapati Shahu, king of the Maratha empire, laid the ceremonial foundation of his own residence on Saturday, January 10, 1730.

Shahrukh Shah Afshar, also spelled Shahrokh () ( c. 1730 – 1796 ) was a king of the Afsharid dynasty and a contemporary of the Zand kings.

The first documented work by his hand is Christ crucified with the Madonna, Saint John Evangelist, and Magdalene commissioned in 1730 by king John V of Portugal for the cathedral of the Mafra.

In 1727 he opposed the address of the lords of session to the king with a counter address complaining of the malt-tax, and in 1730 promoted a bill to give the court of session the power of adjourning.

Between 1730 and 1733 it was a residence of Augustus II the Strong, also a king of Poland ( the palace was exchanged with him for the Blue Palace at Senatorska Street ), and after his death the property came to Sieniawska's daughter Maria Zofia Czartoryska.

The idea that the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages are closely related to each other was allegedly first published in 1730 by Philip Johan von Strahlenberg, a Swedish officer who traveled in the eastern Russian Empire while a prisoner of war after the Great Northern War.

Sultan Ahmed III had become unpopular by reason of the excessive pomp and costly luxury in which he and his principal officers indulged ; on September 20, 1730, a mutinous riot of seventeen janissaries, led by the Albanian Patrona Halil, was aided by the citizens as well as the military until it swelled into an insurrection in front of which the Sultan was forced to give up the throne.

He was professor of astronomy at Uppsala University from 1730 to 1744, but traveled from 1732 to 1735 visiting notable observatories in Germany, Italy and France.

Anders Celsius studied at Uppsala University, where his father was a teacher, and in 1730 he too, became a professor of astronomy there.

The museum ’ s first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton ( 1730 – 1803 ), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.

Cotton processing was tiny: in 1701 only of cotton-wool was imported into England, and by 1730 this had fallen to.

The problem of redefining Europe was finally resolved in 1730 when, instead of waterways, the Swedish geographer and cartographer von Strahlenberg proposed the Ural Mountains as the most significant eastern boundary, a suggestion that found favour in Russia and throughout Europe.

He was soon replaced by another legate in 1740, and he retired to Piacenza, where in 1730 Clement XII appointed him administrator of the hospital of San Lazzaro, a medieval foundation for the benefit of lepers.

The gegenschein was first described by the French Jesuit astronomer and professor Esprit Pézenas ( 1692 – 1776 ) in 1730.

Peter I was succeeded by his second wife ( Catherine I, 1725 – 1728 ) who was merely a figure-head for a powerful group of high officials, then by his minor grandson ( Peter II, 1728 – 1730 ), then by his niece, Anna, daughter of Tsar Ivan V. In 1741 Elizabeth, daughter of Peter, seized the throne, assisted by the Preobrazhensky Regiment.

Joseph Foljambe's Rotherham plough of 1730, was the first commercially successful iron plough.

Josiah Wedgwood ( 12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795 ) was an English potter, founder of the Wedgwood company, credited with the industrialisation of the manufacture of pottery.

A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d ' Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut ( 1730 – 1814 ), was published in Paris in 1775 ; and an English translation of the whole work by John Colson ( 1680 – 1760 ), the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, " inspected " by John Hellins, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Maseres.

Originally, it was known as " Octans Hadleianus " in honor of the octant's inventor, John Hadley, who devised it in 1730.

Pope Benedict XIII ( 2 February 1650 – 21 February 1730 ), born Pietro Francesco Orsini, later Friar Vincenzo Maria Orsini, O. P., was pope from 1724 until his death.

Benedict died in 1730 and was buried in a tomb in Santa Maria sopra Minerva completed by Pietro Bracci and others.

He was later restored and took part in the conclaves of 1730 and 1740.

Pope Clement XII ( 7 April 1652 – 6 February 1740 ), born Lorenzo Corsini, was Pope from 12 July 1730 to 6 February 1740.

The first full preterist exposition was finally written in 1730 by the Protestant and Arian, Frenchman Firmin Abauzit (‘ Essai sur l ' Apocalypse ’), who worked in the those time independent Republic of Geneva as a librarian.