It suffered damage in the Cotton Library fire at Ashburnham House in 1731.

He made a modest living by " produc paintings in the various genres at whatever price his customers chose to pay him ", and by such work as the restoration of the frescoes at the Galerie François I at Fontainebleau in 1731.

James Jr's mother, Nelly Conway Madison ( 1731 – 1829 ), was born at Port Conway, the daughter of a prominent planter and tobacco merchant and his wife.

In 1731, the fifteen-year-old Don Carlos became Charles I Duke of Parma and Piacenza, at the death of his childless great uncle Antonio Farnese.

The British Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole justified Britain's non-intervention by insisting that the Anglo-Austrian Alliance agreed at the 1731 Treaty of Vienna was a purely defensive agreement, while Austria was in this instance the aggressor.

* Johann Ludwig Bach ( 1677 – 1731 ), a second cousin of J. S. Bach, was Kapellmeister at Meiningen.

Emanuel, like his brothers, pursued advanced studies in jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig ( 1731 ).

The manuscript, by now detached, was burned in the Cotton library fire at Ashburnham House in 1731.

This ballad farce was performed by a children's company at Madame Violante's booth in Dame Street, Dublin in 1731, and featured a young Peg Woffington.

In 1731, at Cross Point Fort Frederic was erected.

He studied at Oxford University and in 1731 joined the army.

Most now claim that, if this incident happened at all, it occurred later, and the object of Gluck's journeying was not Vienna but Prague, and connected to his studies at the University of Prague, where according to early biographies he began studying logic and mathematics in 1731.

Henry Cavendish was born on 10 October 1731 in Nice, France, where his family was living at the time.

Historian Ed Kirby tells us that traces of iron were discovered in what was to become Salisbury in 1728, with the discovery of the large deposit at Old Hill ( later Ore Hill ) in 1731 by John Pell and Ezekiel Ashley.

The early settlement at Mendon was first listed in Essex County in 1667, then in 1671 in Suffolk County, and in Worcester County from 1731.

As he rose through the royal architectural establishment, the Board of Works, Kent applied this style to several public buildings in London, for which Burlington's patronage secured him the commissions: the Royal Mews at Charing Cross ( 1731 – 33, demolished in 1830 ), the Treasury buildings in Whitehall ( 1733 – 37 ), the Horse Guards building in Whitehall, ( designed shortly before his death and built 1750 – 1759 ).

Securing a patent on the technology they had developed, Avery had a lightvessel placed at the Nore in the Thames mouth in 1731, against the wishes of the lighthouse authority Trinity House, who considered the scheme worthless and the two men to be little more than adventurers.

One was originally a complete copy of Ine's laws, part of British Library MS Cotton Otho B xi, but that manuscript was largely destroyed in 1731 by a fire at Ashburnham House in which only Chapters 66 to 76. 2 of Ine's laws escaped destruction.

Contrary to the claim on the title page shown here, the first volume had already appeared at the Leipzig Michaelmas Fair of 1731.

Almost ninety pages long, it takes the form of a dialog between two merchants at the 1731 Leipzig Michaelmas Fair.

In 1731 he was initiated into freemasonry ( Grand Lodge of England ) at a specially convened lodge in The Hague at the house of the British Ambassdor, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.

* Raynham Hall, interiors and furniture ( c. 1731 )

* John Pitt ( of Crow Hall ) ( c. 1673 – 1731 ), British Member of Parliament for St Ives and Stockbridge, probably son of George Pitt of Strathfieldsaye ( d. 1694 )

The first time the violin was returned shortly after the theft ; the second theft, by musician Julian Altman, occurred on the evening of 28 February 1936, backstage at Carnegie Hall, while Huberman performed with his Guarnerius of 1731.

In 1731, the manuscript was badly damaged by a fire that swept through a building housing a collection of Medieval manuscripts assembled by Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

Sir Peter Warren began accumulating land in 1731 and built a frame house capacious enough to hold a sitting of the Assembly when smallpox rendered the city dangerous in 1739.

* Westminster Abbey to Sir Isaac Newton, sculpted by John Michael Rysbrack ( 1731 )

* Sir William Hamilton ( diplomat ) ( 1731 – 1803 ), Scottish diplomat and husband of Emma Hamilton

in 1727, and by various other works, including Moses's Sine Principio, 1730 ; The Confusion of Tongues and Trinity of the Gentiles, 1731 ; Power Essential and Mechanical, or what power belongs to God and what to his creatures, in which the design of Sir Isaac Newton and Dr Samuel Clarke is laid open, 1732 ; Glory or Gravity, 1733 ; The Religion of Satan, or Antichrist Delineated, 1736.

* Sir Richard Grosvenor, 7th Baronet ( 1731 – 1802 ) ( created Baron Grosvenor in 1761 )

* Sir William Morgan ( of Tredegar, elder ) ( 1701 – 1731 ), Member of Parliament for Brecon, 1722 – 1723, and Monmouthshire, 1722 – 1731

* Sir Richard Temple, 7th Baronet ( 1731 – 1786 ) ( dormant )

He married thirdly, c. 8 August 1676, Emma Barnard daughter of Sir Henry Barnard, by whom he had Richard Child ( 5 Feb 1680 – March 1750 ), who was created Viscount Castlemain in 1718 and Earl Tylney in 1731.

* Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet ( 1731 – 1791 )

* Sir John Rous, 3rd Baronet ( c. 1776 – 1731 )

* Sir Walter Wrottesley, 6th Baronet ( d. 1731 )

* Sir Patrick Warrender, 3rd Baronet ( 1731 – 1799 )

** Sir William Parsons, 4th Baronet of Birr Castle ( 1731 – 1791 ), Irish politician

The church was extensively altered between 1726 and 1731 by Sir John Bridgeman and the old timber one was encased in brick and plaster.

* Sir William Barker, 5th Baronet ( 1685 – 1731 ), British Member of Parliament for Ipswich, Thetford and Suffolk

Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet, KCB, PC ( 1731 – 25 September 1812 ) was a British Secretary at War ( 1782 – 1783 and 1783 – 1794 ) and the namesake of Yonge Street, a principal road in Toronto, Canada, which was named in 1793 by the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada John Graves Simcoe.

Yonge was born in Colyton, Devon, in 1731 to Sir William Yonge, 4th Baronet ( 1693 – 1751 ) and his second wife Ann Howard, one of several siblings: Anna, Amelia, Juliana, Sophia, Howard, Louisa, and Charlotte Yonge.

** Sir George Lockhart of Lee ( 1673 – 1731 ), Scottish writer and politician

Adderbury House has been remodelled several times: in 1661 for Anne Wilmot, Countess of Rochester, in 1722 for John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, in 1731 by the architect Roger Morris and in 1768 by the architect Sir William Chambers for Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch.

* 1727 – 1731: Sir William Irby, Bt

* Sir Robert Gunning, 1st Baronet ( 1731 – 1816 ), British diplomat