Mumbai Harbor in 1731, four years before the shipbuilding begins there ©Heritage Images/Leemage

In the year 1735, the Russian Empire and Persia sign the Treaty of Ganja, and form a defensive alliance against the Ottoman Empire (Mar 10), the Kingdom of France approves the issue of “card money” to serve as currency in its Louisiana territory in America (Sep 14), the first successful appendectomy is performed in London (Dec 6), shipbuilding industry begins in Mumbai, Carl Linnaeus publishes his Systema Naturae - and all these fine people were born:

1735-xxxx Button Gwinnett* Welsh-American signer of the United States Declaration of Independence - Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire, England (1776/42)
1735-0101 Paul Revere* silversmith/industrialist/Patriot in the American Revolution - Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America (1818/83)

1735-0228 Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde* violinist/mathematician/ chemist - Paris, France (1796/60)

1735-0301 Caroline Thielo* actress - Copenhagen, Denmark (1754/c.19)
1735-0309 Torbern Bergman* chemist/mineralogist - Låstads socken, Sweden (1784/49)

1735-0413 Isaac Low* merchant/New York delegate to the Continental Congress - Piscataway, Province of New Jersey, British America (1791/56)

1735-0501 Lorenzo Hervás* Jesuit/philologist/ author - Horcajo, Spain (1809/74)

1735-0616 Nicolas Bernard Lépicié* painter - Paris, France (1784/49)
1735-0626 Joseph Ducreux* portrait painter/ miniaturist/engraver - Nancy, France (1802/67)

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1735-0705 August Ludwig von Schlözer* German historian/pedagogist - Gaggstatt, Hohenlohe-Kirchberg (1809/74)
1735-0710 Ulrika Pasch* painter/miniaturist - Stockholm, Sweden (1796/60)

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1735-0904 Christina Andersdotter Torp** (b Bredarholm) married to Hans Pehrsson Torp Jr. - Pedersöre, Sweden-Finland (1783/48)
1735-0905 Johann Christian Bach* composer/18th child&11th son of JSB - Leipzig, Germany (1782/46)
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1735-0920 James Keir* chemist/ industrialist/inventor - Stirlingshire, Scotland (1820/85)
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1735-1003 Henrik Wegelius* clergyman/writer - Sodankylä, Sweden-Finland (1791/55)
1735-1005 Georg Gezelius* clergyman/writer - Jönköping, Sweden (1789/53)
1735-1030 John Adams* politician/2usp - Quincy, Massachusetts, British America (1826/90)

1735-1110 Granville Sharp* abolitionist - Durham, England (1813/77)

1735-1229 Thomas Banks* sculptor/artist - London, England (1805/69)
1735-1231 J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur* French-American writer - Normandy, France (1813/77)

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