Events from the year 1730 in the Dutch Republic

Events

Utrecht sodomy trials, a purge of homosexuals issued by the States of Holland Naval shipworms damaged wooden dike supports, threatened the Netherlands' flood defense and prompted engineering improvements. Births

December 8 - Jan Ingenhousz, physiologist, biologist and chemist December 22 - Egbert de Vrij Temminck, prominent regent in Amsterdam

Deaths

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