1730 in the Netherlands
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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.[1]
Births
- December 8 - Jan Ingenhousz, physiologist, biologist and chemist
- December 22 - Egbert de Vrij Temminck, prominent regent in Amsterdam
