1730s

Events and Trends

• The Great Awakening - A Protestant religious movement active in the British colonies of North America
• Sextant invented (probably around 1730) independently by John Hadley in Great Britain and Thomas Godfrey in the American colonies

World leaders

• Louis XV King of France (king from 1715 to 1774)
• George II King of Great Britain (king from 1727 to 1760)