1737

Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century

Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s

Years: 1732 1733 1734 1735 1736 - 1737 - 1738 1739 1740 1741 1742

• Benjamin Franklin created the Philadelphia police force - the first city-paid force.
• In Britain a Licensing Act[?] requires plays to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain[?] for censorship.

Births

• January 23 - John Hancock, statesman and U.S. revolutionary (+ 1793)
• January 29 - Thomas Paine, patriot, radical, pamphleteer (+ 1809)
• April 27 - Edward Gibbon, historian
• May 20 - William Petty Fitzmaurice, British statesman (+ 1805)

Deaths

• December 19 - James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland
• Emperor Nakamikado of Japan
• Gaston de' Medici[?], Last Medici Duke of Tuscany