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1730| 1716–1745 | Japan [political events] | Yoshimune, of the Tokugawa house of Kii, succeeds Ienobu as shogun (military ruler) of Japan. | | 29 May 1724 - 21 February 1730 | Italy [elections] | Pietro Francesco Vincenzo Maria Orsini, eldest son of the Duke of Gravina, is elected Pope Benedict XIII, after the death on 7 March of Pope Innocent XIII. | | c. 1725–c. 1740 | Spain [sports] | Bullfighting grows in popularity in Spain, with Francisco Romero becoming the first famous matador. | | c. 1730 | UK [everyday life] | The popularity of coffee drinking declines in England, as it is replaced by a vogue for tea. | | 1730–1807 | UK [newspapers] | The Daily Advertiser is launched in London, England. With its dependence on advertisements, this may be regarded as the first modern newspaper. | | 11 February 1730 | Russia [political events] | Tsar Peter II of Russia dies and is succeeded by Anna, the daughter of Ivan V, Tsar Peter I the Great's half-brother and co-tsar 1682–96. | | July 1730 | Italy [political events] | After an exceptionally contentious four-month conclave, the Florentine churchman Lorenzo Corsini, aged 79, is elected as Pope Clement XII, following the death of Benedict XIII. Frequently bedridden with gout, and blind from 1732, he will make great efforts to remedy the maladministration of his predecessor's pontificate. | | 17 September 1730 | Ottoman Empire [political events] | Sultan Ahmed III of the Ottoman Empire resigns the throne to his nephew Mahmud I, a prisoner in the Seraglio since his father's own abdication in 1703, following the bloody uprising led by Patrona Halil and precipitated by high taxes, unemployment, and Ottoman defeats by Persia. |
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