[caption id=“attachment_1563” align=“alignright” width=“342”] Shearith Israel in New York City (Courtesy of Gryffindor)[/caption]

In the year 1730, the first synagogue in New York City is dedicated (Apr 8), Mahmud I becomes the new Ottoman emperor, an empire that existed from around 1299 until 1922 (Sep 17), construction of the Ladoga Canal - one of the first major navigable canals - is completed in order to safeguard the passage for boats in the windy Lake Ladoga in Western Russia (Oct 22) - and all these fine people were born:

1730-xxxx Gustavus Hume* surgeon/building speculator - Ireland (1812/c.81) 1730-0103 Velu Nachiyar* queen of Sivaganga estate - Ramanathapuram, Kingdom of Sivaganga (1796/66) 1730-0105 Erik Adolf Geete* soldier/ cartographer/painter - Börstils socken, Uppland, Kingdom of Sweden (1795/64) 1730-0114 William Whipple* merchant/ship captain/signer of the Declaration of Independence - Kittery,  Maine, British America (1785/55) 1730-0115 Louis Dutens* writer/active in London - Tours, Kingdom of France (1812/82) 1730-0116 Jean Baptiste Gaspard Bochart de Saron* mathematician/ astronomer/quillotined during the French Revolution - Paris, Kingdom of France (1794/64) 1730-0122 Johan Edvard Mandelberg* Swedish painter/active in Denmark - at sea between Stockholm and Livland (1786/55) 1730-0131 1730-0206 Januarius Zick* painter/ architect - Munich, Electorate of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (1797/67) 1730-0208 Joseph Wanton Jr.* merchant/Deputy Governor of Rhode Island - Newport, Rhode Island, British America (1780/50) 1730-0228 1730-0301 1730-0302 Otto Friedrich Müller* Danish naturalist/ scientific illustrator - Copenhagen, Denmark-Norway (1784/54) 1730-0307 Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil* aristocrat/diplomat/statesman - Azay-le-Ferron, Kingdom of France (1807/77) 1730-0311 Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova* (b Ivanova) noblewoman/serial killer - Russian Empire (1801/71) 1730-0331 Kaspar Faber* entrepreneur/ maker of pencils - Langenzenn, Holy Roman Empire (1784/53-4) 1730-0401 Salomon Gessner* painter/government official/newspaper publisher - Zürich, Old Swiss Confederacy (1788/57) 1730-0421 Antonín Kammel*  Bohemian violinist/composer - Běleč, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire (1784/54) 1730-0426 John Moore* clergyman/ Archbishop of Canterbury - Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England (1805/74) 1730-0501 1730-0513 Charles Watson-Wentworth* nobleman/ statesman/PM - Wentworth, Yorkshire, England (1782/52) 1730-0515 Melchiorre Cesarotti* poet/translator/ theorist - Padua, Republic of Venice (1808/78) 1730-0521 Carl Magnus Jägerhorn* soldier/active in Finland/governor of Oulu - Kingdom of Sweden (1782/51) 1730-0528 Maria Angela Ardinghelli* mathematician/ physicist/translator - Naples, Kingdom of Naples (1825/96) 1730-0601 1730-0614 Antonio Sacchini* composer - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1786/56) 1730-0621 Motoori Norinaga* 本居 宣長 scholar - Matsusaka, Japan (1801/71) 1730-0622 Gustaf Borgström* Finnish merchant/ industrialist/great uncle of Henrik Borgström - Porvoo, Sweden-Finland (1795/64) 1730-0625 1730-0626 Charles Messier* astronomer/publisher - Badonviller, Kingdom of France (1817/86) 1730-0710 Jean-Baptiste Willermoz* Freemason/ Martinist - Lyon, Kingdom of France (1824/93) 1730-0712 Anna Barbara Reinhart* Swiss mathematician - Winterthur (1796/65) 1730-0712 Josiah Wedgwood* potter/entrepreneur/ abolitionist - Burslem, Staffordshire, England (1795/64) 1730-0731 1730-0801 Frederick Hervey* Anglican prelate/Bishop of Derry - Suffolk, England (1803/72) 1730-0820 Johan Liljencrantz* (b Westerman) nobleman/ civil servant - Gefle, Kingdom of Sweden (1815/84) 1730-0827 Johann Georg Hamann* philosopher - Königsberg, Kingdom of Prussia (1788/57) 1730-0904 Helena Ehrenmalm* (b Sasse) Finnish landowner/active in Åland - Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden (1784/53) 1730-0906 Brita Jaakontytär Koukkari** (Mylläri) mother of Mikko Jeremiaanpoika Myllyniemi - Peräseinäjoki, Sweden-Finland (1818/87) 1730-0907 Elisabetta de Gambarini* pianist/ composer/painter - London, England (1765/33) 1730-0917 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben* Prussian & later an American (Continental Army) military officer/to America at age 47 - Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire (1794/64) 1730-0920 Matti Juhonpoika Ala-Kuhna** father of Heikki Matinpoika Ala-Kuhna - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1781/51) 1730-0930 1730-1008 Kristian Cavander* theologian/active in Turku - Karuna, Sweden-Finland (1812/81) 1730-1010 1730-1029 Albert Magnus Haller* clergyman/ active in Estonia - Karlstad, Kingdom of Sweden (1798/67) 1730-1105 Henrik Achrenius* poet - Sievi, Sweden-Finland (1798/67) 1730-1110 1730-1118 Joachim Gisselkors* soldier - Lappeenranta, Sweden-Finland (1820/90) 1730-1123 William Moultrie* slaveowning planter/politician/general in the American Revolutionary War - Charlestown, Province of South Carolina, British America (1805/74) 1730-1124 Henrik af Trolle* admiral/developer of the Swedish fleet - Stockholm, Kingdom of Sweden (1784/53) 1730-1206 Sophie von La Roche* (b Gutermann) prosperous novelist - Kaufbeuren, Kingdom of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire (1807/76) 1730-1208 Johann Hedwig* botanist/ bryologist - Brașov, Principality of Transylvania (1799/68) 1730-1208 Jan Ingenhousz* botanist/ biologist/discoverer of photosynthesis - Breda, Staats-Brabant, Dutch Republic (1799/68) 1730-1213 William Hamilton* diplomat/ antiquarian/vulcanologist - London or Park Place, Berkshire, England (1803/72) DOB uncertain 1730-1214 James Bruce* traveler/ travel writer/traced the origins of the Blue Nile - Kinnaird, Stirlingshire, Scotland (1794/63) 1730-1225 Filippo Mazzei* physician/diplomat/winemaker/a close friend of Thomas Jefferson - Poggio a Caiano, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1816/85) 1730-1231 1730-0 1730-0 1730-0 Updated 2025-0421 Helsinki Search for another year here LINKS https://sukututkijanloppuvuosi.blogspot.com/2020/05/kapteeni-gisselkorsin-elamasta.html