1731

Year 1731 () was a (link will display the full calendar) of the  (or a  of the 11-day slower ).

January - June

 * - signed between the, , the  and.

July - December

 * -, writer, spy and politician, is killed in a duel.

Undated

 * observes the for the first time.
 * Governor asks the  to pass an act establishing a town on the  in what is seen as a political move to shift the power away from the powerful Cape Fear plantation class.  The town is laid out in  and later incorporated as  in.
 * Royal theatre of  built by.

Births

 * -, English poet (died )
 * -, First President USA born
 * -, Bishop of London and abolitionist (died )
 * -, (died )
 * -, English gambler and collector (died )
 * -, English scientist (died )
 * -, American surveyor of the District of Columbia (died )
 * -, English poet (died )
 * -, Czech composer (died )
 * -, English scientist and grandfather of (died )


 * See also .

Deaths

 * -, French chemist (born )
 * -, English theologian (born )
 * -, Italian maker of musical instruments (born )
 * -, Dutch physician and anatomist (born )
 * -, Czech sculptor (born )
 * -, English writer (born )
 * -, German composer (born )
 * -, divorced wife of (b. )
 * -, French writer (born )
 * -, English mathematician (born )


 * See also .