12th February » Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia (U.S. state) named Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah, Georgia called Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
29th May » The right of Canada Canadians to keep First Nations Indian slavery slaves is upheld at Quebec City.
30th July » The first Freemasonry named Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.
23rd November » The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
Famous Birthdays in 1733
17th January » Thomas Linley the elder English singer and conductor (d. 1795)
22nd January » Philip Carteret, English admiral (d. 1796)
13th March » Joseph Priestley, English chemist, minister, and philosopher (d. 1804)
18th March » Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German author and bookseller (d. 1811)
4th May » Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, and sailor (d. 1799)
22nd May » Hubert Robert, French painter (d. 1808)
20th June » Betty Washington Lewis, American sister of George Washington (d. 1797)
22nd July » Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790)
27th July » Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779)
18th September » George Read (U.S. statesman) known as George Read, American lawyer and politician, 3rd List of Governors of Delaware or Governor of Delaware (d. 1798)
14th October » François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)
28th October » Franz Ignaz von Beecke, German composer (d. 1803)
Famous Deaths in History for 1733
25th January » Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (b. 1652)
27th January » Thomas Woolston, English theologian (b. 1669)
1st February » Augustus II the Strong, Polish king (b. 1670)
4th March » Claude de Forbin, French admiral (b. 1656)
19th April » Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney (b. 1655)