In 1734 a man from Ghana earned a doctorate in Germany.
Anton Wilhelm Amo had been given as a child to the Duke of Brunswick — and went on to teach philosophy at Halle and Jena.
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- 1729 Voltaire got rich by beating the state lottery.
- 1729 · 1762 Catherine the Great was born Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst in the Prussian port of Stettin, now Szczecin in Poland.
- 1730 · 1755 The founder of Moscow University walked to Moscow.
- 1731 · 1739 Britain and Spain fought for nine years over a severed ear. Spaniards cut off Captain Jenkins's ear in 1731; after he told Parliament about it, war broke out in 1739.
- 1734 Bach wrote a musical comedy about a coffee addict.
- 1735 Bach wrote a comic piece about coffee addiction.