1734

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  • January 8 - Premiere of George Frideric Handel's opera Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
  • June 17 - French troops take Philippsburg, but the Duke of Berwick is killed
  • June 21 - In Montreal in New France, a black slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique, was tortured then hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony that involved her disgrace and the amputation of a hand.
  • June 30 - Russian troops take Gdańsk (German: Danzig) which had been besieged since October 1733. Gdańsk is captured after the failure of a French expedition to relieve the city

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