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| 1731 |
| | | English maker of telescopes John Hadley designs the instrument which evolves into the standard sextant used at sea | |
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| 1731 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin sets up a subscription library, the Library Company of Philadelphia | |
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| 1732 |
| | | Georgia is granted to a group of British philanthropists, to give a new start in life to debtors | |
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| 1732 |
| | | With the performance of Esther Handel taps a rich new vein, the English oratorio | |
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| 1732 |
| | | Frederick Prince of Wales takes a lease of a house at the west end of Kew Green opposite Kew Palace and instructs William Kent to remodel it. It becomes known as the White House. | |
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| 1733 |
| | | An alliance between the French and Spanish Bourbons is the first of what become known as the Family Compacts | |
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| 1733 |
| | | Voltaire publishes a series of Philosophical Letters comparing the French unfavourably with England | |
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| 1733 |
| | | John Kay, working in the Lancashire woollen industry, patents the flying shuttle to speed up weaving | |
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| 1733 |
| | | Benjamin Franklin establishes the most successful of America's almanacs, publishing it annually until 1758 | |
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| 1733 |
| | | Pope adds a portico to Pope's Villa to the design of William Kent. | |
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