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In 1737, after the War of the Polish Succession, Lorraine was part of an agreement between France, the House of Habsburg and the Lorraine House of Vaudémont: The Duchy was given to Stanisław Leszczyński, the former king of Poland and father-in-law to King Louis XV of France, who despite French support had lost out to a candidate backed by Russia and Austria in the War of the Polish Succession.
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1737 and after
Although fighting stopped after the preliminary peace in 1735, the final peace settlement had to wait until the death of the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gian Gastone in 1737, to allow the territorial exchanges provided for by the peace settlement to go into effect.
It fell into ruin after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536, but was rebuilt as a parish church in 1737, and then completely rebuilt again in 1882.
In French opéra comique, supporting roles requiring a thin voice but good acting are sometimes described as ' trial ', after the singer Antoine Trial ( 1737 – 1795 ), examples being in the operas of Ravel and in The Tales of Hoffmann.
* Robert Thistlethwayte, the Warden who fled to France in 1737 after a homosexual scandal
The Kistler Valley area of Lynn Township is named after Johaness Jeorg Kistler who came to the United States in 1737 from the Electorate of the Palatinate Germany.
The settlement of what is now Darlington County began in earnest after 1736 and 1737 when the province of South Carolina set aside a vast area of land for the Welsh Baptist of Delaware.
Although fighting stopped after the preliminary peace, the final peace settlement had to wait until the death of the last Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany, Gian Gastone in 1737, to allow the territorial exchanges provided for by the peace settlement to go into effect.
In 1737 – 1738, a half century after his death, Herman Boerhaave translated Swammerdam's papers into Latin and published them under the title Biblia naturae ( Book of Nature ).
The birth of their first daughter, Princess Augusta, on 31 August 1737, took place at St James's after Princess Augusta was forced by Frederick to travel from Hampton Court Palace while in labour, simply to prevent his hated parents from being present at the birth.
After he had attended Latin school at Königsberg ( 1737 – 1741 ), his parents wanted him to go in for the church, but after two years at the University of Wittenberg he determined to live the life of a scholar.
The trio were responsible for a string of robberies between March and April 1737, which ended suddenly in an incident at Whitechapel, after King ( or Turpin, depending upon which report is read ) had stolen a horse near Waltham Forest.
Turpin is best known for his exploits as a highwayman, but before his execution the only contemporary report of him as such was in June 1737, when a broadsheet entitled " News news: great and wonderful news from London in an uproar or a hue and cry after the Great Turpin, with his escape into Ireland " was published.
* On 29 May 2003, Qantas Flight 1737 from Melbourne to Launceston Airport was hijacked shortly after takeoff.
Between 1737 and 1751 the estate was leased to Frederick, Prince of Wales by Orkney's heirs after his death.
The first was built in 1737 on the location of a smaller chapel dedicated to Saint Francis, and closed after the suppression of Convents in 1806 as well as the Nunnery of Clarisses.
Claude Buffier ( 25 May 1661 – 17 May 1737 ), French philosopher, historian and educationalist, was born in Poland, of French parents, who returned to France, and settled at Rouen, soon after his birth.
He read law at the Middle Temple and was called to the bar in 1737, after only four years ( instead of the typical seven ) of study.
He ratified the protests which his brother laid on the table of the assembly after being rebuked for his synod sermon, but he did not formally withdraw from the establishment till 1737.
* 29 May – A man attempts to hijack Qantas Flight 1737, a Boeing 717 – 200 with 52 other people on board, shortly after taking off from Melbourne Airport in Melbourne, Australia, hoping to crash the plane into Australias Walls of Jerusalem National Park in Tasmania, which he believes will release the Devil from his lair and bring about Armageddon.
Reichsgraf since 27 November 1737, he had to acquiesce to the influence of old servants of the electoral house for a time, but after 1738 he was in effect sole minister, a position for which he actually had neither the skills nor the knowledge.
L ' Ecole des amis ( 1737 ) followed, and, after an unsuccessful attempt at tragedy in Maximinien, he returned to comedy in Mélanide ( 1741 ).
Upon the death of his wife who had perished in the black plague of 1737, he offered to raise an irregular corps of pandurs for service against the Turks, but this offer was refused, after which he entered the Russian army as a mercenary.
The General Court agreed to pay Marblehead Society 140 pounds " to encourage and facilitate the settlement of a minister there ..." Holyoke became the 9th President of Harvard College ( 1737 – 1769 ), succeeding after Benjamin Wadsworth death.
It is named after William Byrd II, whose family owned much of the area when Richmond was founded in 1737.
1737 and War
* November 17 – Samuel Holden Parsons, American major general of the Revolutionary War and member of the Connecticut House of Representatives ( b. 1737 )
After very strained relations between 1727 and 1732, the situation improved between 1732 and 1737, when Sir Robert Walpole supported Spain during the War of Polish Succession.
In 1733, on the advice of his secretary of state for foreign affairs Germain Louis Chauvelin ( 1727 – 1737 ), the king abandoned Fleury's peace policy to intervene in the War of the Polish Succession.
After the English Civil War it was removed to the chapel of Hampton Court Palace and came to Tewkesbury in 1737.
From 1728 until 1737 he was Duke of Lorraine, but lost this title when Lorraine was seized by France in the War of the Polish Succession ; he was compensated with Tuscany in the peace treaty that ended that war.
In 1737, the Emperor embarked on another Turkish War with Russia.
Two years later, in 1718 under the terms of the Treaty of Passarowitz, Oltenia was split from Wallachia and annexed by the Habsburg Monarchy ( de facto, it was under Austrian occupation by 1716 ); in 1737, it was returned to Wallachia under Prince Constantine Mavrocordatos ( see Austro-Turkish War of 1716-18 and Austro-Turkish War, 1737-1739 ).
After centuries of French invasions and occupations, Lorraine was finally ceded to France at the close of the War of the Polish Succession ( 1737 ).
He had already contributed The Virtuoso, in imitation of Spenser's style and stanza ( 1737 ) to the Gentleman's Magazine, and in 1738 A British Philippic, occasioned by the Insults of the Spaniards, and the present Preparations for War ( also published separately ).
William Petty-FitzMaurice, 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, KG, PC ( 2 May 1737 – 7 May 1805 ), known as The Earl of Shelburne between 1761 and 1784, by which title he is generally known to history, was an Irish-born British Whig statesman who was the first Home Secretary in 1782 and then Prime Minister 1782 – 1783 during the final months of the American War of Independence.
* Joseph Trumbull ( 1737 – 1778 ), first commissary general of the Continental Army and an early member of the Board of War.
* Arthur St. Clair ( 1737 – 1818 ) — American Revolutionary War soldier and politician.
During the Austro-Turkish War of 1716 – 1718, Habsburg troops attacked and captured the town ; Pitești was again the scene of battles during the Austro-Turkish War of 1737 – 1739.
The War of the Spanish Succession soon followed, and Traun served with distinction in Italy and on the Rhine till 1709, when he became lieutenant-colonel and aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Count Guido Starhemberg ( 1654 – 1737 ) in Spain.
William Heath ( March 7, 1737 – January 24, 1814 ) was an American farmer, soldier, and political leader from Massachusetts who served as a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
* Owen Biddle, Sr. ( 1737 – 1799 ), American Revolutionary War soldier, mathematician, astronomer-observed 1769 Transit of Venus at Cape Henlopen, member of the American Philosophical Society
Gelelemend ( 1737 – 1811 ), also known as Killbuck or John Killbuck Jr., was a Delaware ( Lenape ) chief during the American Revolutionary War.
During the Bashkir War of 1735-40 he was in command of Siberian operations from the winter of 1736-37 and head of the whole operation from the spring of 1737.
Joseph Trumbull ( March 11, 1737 – July 23, 1778 ), son of Governor Jonathan Trumbull of Connecticut, was the first commissary general of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
* Colonel Barry St. Leger ( British Colonel involved in the United States Revolutionary War ; 1737 – 1789 )
* 1737: Entry of Austria into ( Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739 ) against Ottoman Empire.
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