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1735| 1716–1745 | Japan [political events] | Yoshimune, of the Tokugawa house of Kii, succeeds Ienobu as shogun (military ruler) of Japan. | | c. 1725–c. 1740 | Spain [sports] | Bullfighting grows in popularity in Spain, with Francisco Romero becoming the first famous matador. | | 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. | | 1735 | England [painting] | English artist William Hogarth completes his cycle of eight paintings The Rake's Progress, made popular by subsequent widely-circulated engravings. | | 1735 | Sweden [biology] | In his Systema Naturae/System of Nature, Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) introduces a system for classifying plants based on their reproductive anatomy. In later editions be makes use of binomial nomenclature as a way to simply and stabilize the naming of species. | | 1735 | China [political events] | Ch'ien Lung becomes emperor of China. | | 3 October 1735 | Austria, Habsburg Monarchy, Poland, Holy Roman Empire, Italy, Spain [treaties] | A preliminary peace accord in the War of the Polish Succession is negotiated in Vienna, Austria. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI receives the Italian duchies of Parma and Piacenza; Don Carlos, son of King Philip V of Spain and Elizabeth Farnese, is to succeed as Charles III to Naples and Sicily – which are, however, not to be united under one crown with Spain; Charles Emmanuel III of Savoy is to hold Novara and Tortona (in Piedmont, northwestern Italy); France guarantees the Pragmatic Sanction (which sets out the right of the emperor's daughter, Maria Theresa of Austria, to succeed him as ruler of all the Habsburg domains); Stanislaw Leszczynski renounces his claims to Poland and is to receive the duchy of Lorraine (now in France), on the death of the Grand Duke of Tuscany (the duchy is to revert to France on Stanislaw's death); and the Duke of Lorraine, as compensation for the loss of his ducal patrimony, is to receive the duchy of Tuscany when the Grand Duke dies. | | 30 October 1735 | USA [births and deaths] | John Adams, first vice-president 1778–97 and second president 1797–1801 of the USA, a Federalist, born in Braintree, Massachusetts (–1826). |
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