Timeline February 1733

Events in February 1733 3

• 1670 – 1733 Augustus II the Strong (1670-1733) Died 1 February 1733, aged 62 Augustus II the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, died in Warsaw on 1 February 1733. His death set off a contested royal election that escalated into the War of the Polish Succession. He was succeeded in Saxony by his son, who later took the Polish throne as Augustus III.
• 1733 Province of Georgia founded James Oglethorpe establishes Savannah as the thirteenth British colony James Oglethorpe landed with settlers on the bluffs of the Savannah River and founded the city of Savannah, establishing the Province of Georgia as the last of the thirteen original British colonies in North America. The colony was conceived partly as a refuge for debtors and the poor and as a military buffer against Spanish Florida.
• 1733 – 1782 Daniel Solander (1733-1782) Died 13 May 1782, aged 49 Daniel Solander, the Swedish naturalist who sailed with Joseph Banks aboard HMS Endeavour on James Cook's first voyage, died in London on 13 May 1782. He helped catalog thousands of new plant and animal specimens collected during the voyage. He later worked as a librarian and curator at the British Museum.