Carlos, the son of Spain's Philip V, succeeds to the throne of the Italian duchies after Spain agrees to the Pragmatic Sanction of Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI whose daughter Maria Theresa will be heir to his throne. A reflecting quadrant allows mariners to measure latitude accurately for the first time. France ends the practice of barbers who double as surgeons as it establishes a Royal College of Surgeons. Fiction by Abbe Provost is condemned by authorities. George Frederick Handel.
Demand grows in Europe for Porcelain factories.
The effort is abandoned by Governor Etienne Perier when trouble with the Indians dies down. A map by L'Herbours shows same as Gonichon' with less detail inside the city, more outside, including the plantation of the Company of the Indies at Algiers Point and the buildings at the Jesuit plantation which Bienville had sold them just upriver. The plantation of the company is granted to Etienne Perier , and later it passes to Chevalier de Pradel. De Pradel builds a splendid plantation house in 1750 that is later purchased by John McDonough, who lives there until his death in 1850. Bienville returns to be governor again and Salmon is Intendant.