Events
- January 16 - First performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Saul at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, London.
- February - George Whitefield first preaches in the open air.
- April - John Wesley first preaches in the open air, at Whitefield's invitation.
- Henry Brooke's drama Gustavus Vasa is the first play banned under the Licensing Act of 1737.
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