The Tsar Bell is cast
The world's largest bell has never rung once
In 1735 Mikhail Motorin cast a bell of about 202 tonnes in the Kremlin. It was still in its casting pit when fire broke out in 1737: guards threw cold water on the hot bronze and a slab of over 10 tonnes cracked off. It has never been rung.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1755 Lisbon earthquake — 20 years later
- 1756–1763 Seven Years' War — 21 years later
- c. 1760 Start of the Industrial Revolution — 25 years later
Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 13 years earlier
- 1747 Ahmad Shah Durrani founds the Afghan state — 12 years later
Asia
- 1755–1758 The Dzungar genocide — 20 years later
- 1757 Battle of Plassey — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 50)
- Voltaire (aged 41)
- Benjamin Franklin (aged 29)
- Mikhail Lomonosov (aged 24)
- James Cook (aged 7)
- Catherine the Great (aged 6)
- George Washington (aged 3)
- Ahmed III (aged 62)
- Vitus Bering (aged 54)
- Tokugawa Yoshimune (aged 51)