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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 1]] &ndash; At least 664 African slaves drown when the [[Dutch West India Company|Dutch West Indies Company]] [[slave ship]] [[Leusden (ship)|''Leusden'']] capsizes and sinks in the [[Maroni (river)|Maroni River]] during its arrival in [[Surinam (Dutch colony)|Surinam]]. The Dutch crew escapes, and leaves the slaves locked below decks to die.<ref>Johannes Postma, ''The Dutch in the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600-1815'' (Cambridge University Press, 2008) p242</ref>
* [[January 3]] &ndash; [[George Frideric Handel]]'s opera ''[[Faramondo]]'' is given its first performance.<ref>[https://handelhendrix.org/learn/about-handel/opera-synopses/faramondo/ "Faramondo"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726190242/https://handelhendrix.org/learn/about-handel/opera-synopses/faramondo/ |date=July 26, 2020 }}, The Handel House Trust Ltd.</ref>
* [[January 7]] &ndash; After the [[Maratha Confederacy|Maratha Empire]] of India wins the [[Battle of Bhopal]] over the [[Jaipur State]], Jaipur cedes the [[Malwa]] territory to the Maratha in a [[Treaty of Bhopal|treaty]] signed at [[Doraha, Sehore|Doraha]].<ref>S.R. Bakshi and O.P. Ralhan, ''Madhya Pradesh Through the Ages'' (Sarup & Sons, 2007) p. 384</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Court Jew]] [[Joseph Süß Oppenheimer]] is executed in [[Duchy of Württemberg|Württemberg]].
* [[February 11]] &ndash; [[Jacques de Vaucanson]] stages the first demonstration of an early [[automaton]], ''[[Vaucanson Flute Player|The Flute Player]]'' at the Hotel de Longueville in Paris, and continues to display it until March 30.<ref>Kara Reilly, ''Automata and Mimesis on the Stage of Theatre History'' (Springer, 2011) pp83-84</ref>
* [[February 20]] &ndash; The [[Swedish Levant Company]] is founded.
* [[March 28]] &ndash; Mariner [[Robert Jenkins (master mariner)|Robert Jenkins]] presents a pickled ear, which he claims was cut off by a Spanish captain in the [[Caribbean]] in 1731, to the [[Parliament of Great Britain]], which votes, 257 to 209, for war against [[Spain]], leading to the [[War of Jenkins' Ear]] the following year.<ref>[[Basil Williams (historian)|Williams, Basil]] (1913). ''The Life of William Pitt Earl of Chatham''. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.; repr. Routledge, 2018.</ref> 
* [[March]]/April &ndash; [[Battle of the Dindar River]]: Emperor [[Iyasu II]] of [[Ethiopia]] is defeated by the [[Funj people]].