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This article is about the year 1737.

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May 28 – The planet Venus passes in front of Mercury. The event is witnessed during the evening hours by the amateur astronomer John Bevis at the Royal Greenwich Observatory. As of 2006, it is still the only such planet/planet occultation that has been directly observed.
June 21 – In Britain the Theatrical Licensing Act requires plays to be submitted to the Lord Chamberlain for censorship.
June 30 – Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces under Field Marshal Munnich storm the Ottoman fortress of Ochakov and take prisoner 4,000 Turks.

July – Austria enters the Russo-Turkish War.
September 1 – The oldest existing English language newspaper in the world, The News Letter, is founded in Belfast, Ireland.
September 20 – Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase, forcing the cession of 1,200,000 acres (4,900 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony.
October – The first national stage in Sweden opens when the play Den Svenska Sprätthöken is performed in the native language, by the first native actors, on the stage of Bollhuset in Stockholm.
October 7 – A tropical cyclone strikes Bengal, India killing approximately 300,000.
October 16 – An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9.3 occurs off the shore of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. Tsunamis up to 60m (200 ft) high followed in the Pacific ocean.^[1]
November 4 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples, Italy.

Benjamin Franklin creates the Philadelphia Police Force – the first city-paid force.
The Georg August University of Göttingen is founded.
The direct male line of the Medici family becomes extinct with the death of Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Richmond, Virginia is founded.
Our Lady of Guadalupe is designated the patron saint of Mexico City.
Lancaster County Prison, Lancaster, Pennsylvania is first constructed in response to the seven violent years preceding of the ongoing Cresap's War in the Maryland-Pennsylvania boundary dispute and war.

January 12 – John Hancock, American statesman and revolutionary (d. 1793)
January 29 – Thomas Paine, British-born American patriot and pamphleteer (d. 1809)
April 27 – Edward Gibbon, English historian (d. 1794)
May 2 – William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1805)
June 20 – Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese shogun (d. 1786)
August 5 – Johann Friedrich Struensee, Danish royal physician (d. 1772)
August 29 – John Hunter, second governor of New South Wales (d. 1821)
September 9 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician and physicist (d. 1798)
September 14 – Michael Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1806)
September 15 – Miklós Küzmics, Hungarian Slovenes writer, Catholic priest (d. 1804)
September 19 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, only Roman Catholic signer of the American Declaration of Independence (d. 1832)
December 26 – Prince Josias of Coburg, Austrian general (d. 1815)
date unknown – Frances Abington, English actress (d. 1815)

The Annual Catalogue – List of History, Divinity, Law, Poetry, Plays, Novels, Painting, Architecture, and all other Sciences books published in London in 1737