Franklin In London
Jan 4 Benjamin Franklin arrives in London [OS=Dec 24 1724]
- Feb 20 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100 a scalp bounty
Treaty of Vienna
Apr 30 Emperor Charles VI & King Philip IV of Spain sign Treaty of Vienna
- May 1 Spain and Austria sign trade treaty
Order of Alexander Nevsky
May 21 The Order of St. Alexander Nevsky is instituted in Russia by the empress Catherine I. It would later be discontinued and then reinstated by the Soviet government in 1942 as the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
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