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.

When the copyrights granted to works published before the Statute began to expire in 1731, the Stationers ' Company and their publishers again began to fight to preserve the status quo.

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.

It was in Ireland that the practice of recognising the regularity of a lodge by the issue of a warrant began, the first known example dating from 1731.

The series began in 1729, and was also struck in 1731, 1735, 1738, 1741, 1746, 1748, and for the last time in 1753.

When the statutory copyright term provided for by the Statute of Anne began to expire in 1731 London booksellers thought to defend their dominant position by seeking injunctions from the Court of Chancery for works by authors that fell outside the statute's protection.

In 1729 he left England for the Netherlands, where he began to publish ( Utrecht, 1731 ) a novel, the material of which, at least, had been gathered in London Le Philosophe anglais, ou Histoire de Monsieur Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwell, écrite par lui-même, et traduite de l ' anglais ( Paris 1731-1739, 8 vols., but most of the existing sets are partly Paris and partly Utrecht ).

He was posted to Fort Kaministiquia in this year and began the western expansion in 1731.

Van Effen wrote in French for a great part of his literary career but, influenced by a visit to London where the Tatler and Spectator were on the rise, from 1731 began to publish his Hollandsche Spectator (" Dutch Spectator ") magazine, which his death in 1735 soon brought to a close.

In 1731, Donelaitis began attending the cathedral school in Kneiphof, a section of Königsberg.

When the statutory copyright term provided for by the Statute of Anne began to expire in 1731 London booksellers thought to defend their dominant position by seeking injunctions from the Court of Chancery for works by authors that fell outside the statute's protection.

Pope began work on it in 1729, and had finished the first three by 1731.

When the statutory copyright term provided for by the Statute of Anne, the first copyright statute, began to expire in 1731 London booksellers fought to defend their dominant position by seeking injunctions from the Court of Chancery for works by authors that fell outside the statute's protection.

In 1731 he began to build up his own estate in Kinross-shire, which he named Blair Adam.

In 1693 his series of Biblical commentaries began with that on the Book of Genesis ; the series was not completed until 1731.

Burgh died in 1730, to be succeeded by Edward Lovett Pearce, and work began on the canal in 1731.

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

Apart from full-size copies, completed in 1731, he made 162 smaller studies of heads, hands and feet intending to publish them in printed form for the use of art students, but his death left this work unfinished.

Wallerius was born in Stora Mellösa in Närke, entered Uppsala University in 1725, and graduated as magister in 1731 after studies of mathematics, physics and medicine.

He became an apprentice in 1731.

Erasmus Darwin ( 12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802 ) was an English physician who turned down George III's invitation to be a physician to the King.

* 1802 – Martha Washington, American wife of George Washington, 1st First Lady of the United States ( b. 1731 )

He joined the navy in 1731, accompanying George Anson on his circumnavigation as a midshipman.

The first true bourgeois tragedy was an English play, George Lillo's The London Merchant ; or, the History of George Barnwell, which was first performed in 1731.

Benjamin Banneker was born November 9, 1731, in Baltimore County, Maryland to his mother Mary, a free black, and his father George, a fugitive slave.

George Vertue, whose family had property in Hawksmoor's part of Nottingham shire, wrote in 1731 that he was taken as a youth to act as clerk by ' Justice Mellust in Yorkshire, where Mr Gouge senior did some fretwork ceilings afterwards Mr. Haukesmore came to London, became clerk to Sr. Christopher Wren & thence became an Architect '.

Prince William County was created by an act of the General Assembly of the colony of Virginia in 1731, largely from the western section of Stafford County as well as a section of King George County.

* Martha Washington, ( 1731 – 1802 ), born in New Kent County, wife of president George Washington

The War of Jenkins ' Ear ( named for a 1731 incident in which a Spanish commander chopped off the ear of English merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, George II ) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to the Caribbean Sea and conflict between Spanish Florida and the neighboring British Province of Georgia.

Karnak was visited and described in succession by Claude Sicard and his travel companion Pierre Laurent Pincia ( 1718 and 1720 – 21 ), Granger ( 1731 ), Frederick Louis Norden ( 1737 – 38 ), Richard Pococke ( 1738 ), James Bruce ( 1769 ), Charles-Nicolas-Sigisbert Sonnini de Manoncourt ( 1777 ), William George Browne ( 1792 – 93 ), and finally by a number of scientists of the Napoleon expedition, including Vivant Denon, during 1798 – 1799.

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington ( June 2, 1731 – May 22, 1802 ) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States.

In the 18th century, the highbrow and provocative Restoration comedy lost favour, to be replaced by sentimental comedy, domestic tragedy such as George Lillo's The London Merchant ( 1731 ), and by an overwhelming interest in Italian opera.

** George Lockhart, Scottish politician and writer ( died 1731 )

He married twice, firstly the widow of his counting-house employer, whose property he inherited on her death, and secondly, in 1731, Mary, the 22 year old daughter of cabinet-maker George Nix with whom he had two surviving children.

* George Anson ( 1731 – 1789 ), British MP for Lichfield, nephew of the above

In the 18th century, the highbrow and provocative Restoration comedy lost favour, to be replaced by sentimental comedy, domestic tragedy such as George Lillo's The London Merchant ( 1731 ), and by an overwhelming interest in Italian opera.

Kew and the area around the bridge was significant to George as his father Frederick took a lease on Kew House, now part of the Royal Botanic Gardens from 1731 and rebuilt the house to designs by William Kent.

The principal editions since have been those by Kaspar von Barth ( 1623 ), P Bunyan ( 1731, in his edition of the minor Latin poets ), Ernst Friedrich Wernsdorf ( 1778, part of a similar collection ), August Wilhelm Zumpt ( 1840 ), and the critical edition by Lucian Müller ( Teubner, Leipzig, 1870 ), and another by Vessereau ( 1904 ); also an annotated edition by Keene, containing a translation by George Francis Savage-Armstrong ( 1906 ).

* George Adams ( 1731 – 1789 ), British Whig politician and Staffordshire landowner

* George Onslow, 1st Earl of Onslow ( 1731 – 1814 )

The following year, on 13 May 1729, he was made Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal to Queen Caroline, who was godmother to his son George in 1731.

Speaker Onslow's nephew, George Onslow ( 1731 – 1792 ), a son of his brother Richard, was a lieutenant colonel and Member of Parliament for Guildford from 1760 to 1784.

* George Hobart, 3rd Earl of Buckinghamshire ( 1731 – 1804 )