May 5 Marie de Camargo (16) premieres at Opera of Paris May 24 People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax June 11 Cardinal Fleury succeeds duke of Bourbon as French premier July 23 Benjamin Franklin sails back to Philadelphia August 6 Emperor Karel VI and tsarina Catharina the Great sign military treaty August 9 Netherlands signs Covenant of Hannover October 11 Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
