February 10 – The massacre of the
Guaraní rebels in the
Jesuit reduction of Caaibaté takes place in
Brazil after their leader, Noicola Neenguiru, defies an ultimatum to surrender by 2:00 in the afternoon.[3] On February 7, Neenguiru's predecessor
Sepé Tiaraju has been killed in a brief skirmish. As two o'clock arrives, a combined force of Spanish and Portuguese troops makes an assault on the first of the Seven Towns established as Jesuit missions. Defending their town with cannons made out of
bamboo, the Guaraní suffer 1,511 dead, compared to three Spaniards and two Portuguese killed in battle.[4]
February 14 –
Battle of Vijaydurg: The
Maratha Navy, that has controlled the western coast of
India for the
Maratha Empire for more than a century, is destroyed by British attackers fighting for the
East India Company. On orders of
Royal Navy Admiral
Charles Watson, the British capture a Maratha ship (the former British warship HMS Restoration), set it on fire, and then float the burning vessel into the
Vijaydurg Port where most of Maratha Admiral Tulaji Angre's ships are anchored. The fire soon spreads to the other ships, destroying one large warship armed with 74 cannons, eight
gurabs of 200 tonnes apiece, and sixty galbat ships.[5]
September 2 –
Abu l-Hasan Ali I,
Bey of Tunis is forcibly removed after 23 years as the ruler of the North African emirate by his cousins, who are avenging the overthrow and execution of their father,
Husayn in 1735. Hasan Ali surrenders to the rebels and is imprisoned in
Algiers, then executed on September 22 on orders of the new Bey of Tunis,
Muhammad I ar-Rashid.
December 14 – The play Douglas is performed for the first time in
Edinburgh, with overwhelming success, in spite of the opposition of the local church
presbytery, who summon
Alexander Carlyle to answer for having attended its representation. However, it fails in its early promise to set up a new Scottish dramatic tradition.
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^Marley, David (2008). Wars of the Americas: A Chronology of Armed Conflict in the Western Hemisphere, 1492 to the Present. ABC-CLIO. p. 414.
^Ganson, Barbara (2005). The Guaraní Under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata. Stanford University Press. pp. 107–108.
^Athale, Col. Anil (April–June 2017). "Anglo-Maratha Struggle for Empire: The Importance of Maritime Power". Indian Defence Review.
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^"Danish Business Delegation to Turkey"(PDF). Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archived from
the original(PDF) on June 1, 2011. Retrieved December 11, 2010. Trade between our two countries can be dated centuries back. In 1756 Denmark and The Ottoman Empire signed a treaty on commerce and friendship, which paved the way for closer ties both human and commercial between our two people...
^Энциклопедия Города России. Moscow: Большая Российская Энциклопедия. 2003. p. 114.
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