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1737
Events from the year 1737 in France.
Incumbents
Monarch: Louis XVBBC - History - King Louis XV https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/louis_xv.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 17 June 2022
Events
February 20 – Foreign Minister Germain Louis Chauvelin is dismissed by Louis XV's Chief Minister, Cardinal André-Hercule de Fleury.
February 27 – Scientists Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon publish the first study on dendrochronology.De la cause de l'excentricité des couches ligneuses qu'on apperçoit quand on coupe horisontalement le tronc d'un arbre.
March 16 – In Paris, representatives sign an armistice bringing an end to the Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–1737).
April 5 – Jesuit priest Jean-François Régis is canonized as Saint Regis by the Roman Catholic Church under the reign of Pope Clement XII.
Births
January 18 – Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, botanist (d. 1814)
February 12 – Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, salon hostess (d. 1794)
Marie-Catherine de Maraise, businesswoman (d. 1822)
Anne Couppier de Romans, royal mistress (d. 1808)
Marguerite Du Londel, ballerina (d. 1804 in Sweden)
Deaths
June 4 – François Lemoyne, rococo painter (b. 1688)
December 27 – Victor-Marie d'Estrées, marshal (b. 1660)
See also
France History Lists
References
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