Art

Painting

The Pleasure Party by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743)

A Rake's Progress by William Hogarth (1697-1794) completed (he began his eight scenes in 1732)

Also his

The Good Samaritan?
The orgy
The Distressed Poet

Parliament passes a Copyright Act (Hogarth Act) to protect artists against pirating of their work in cheap copies. Hogarth had withheld his Rake's Progress pending enactment of the new legislation.

Boy with a Top by Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1779)

More events

Wikipedia also lists these undated events

1. The Russo-Turkish War of 1735-1739, Russian forces fail to occupy the Crimea due to rasputitsa

2. The French make peace with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (lasts until 1740)

3. The ship building industry begins in Mumbai, India

4. End of the reign of Emperor Nakamikado, Japan

5. The King's highway Charleston-Boston, America, completed

6. Construction of the Chemin du roy Quebec-Montreal begins

7. Global circulation correctly explained for the first time by George Hadley

8. Carolus Linnaeus publishes his Systema Naturae

9. Etienne Fourmont writes Reflexions critiques sur les histoires des anciens peuples

10. William Hogarth publishes A Rake's Progress

11. Edmund Curll tries to publish "Mr Pope's Literary Correspondence", the stock of which is subsequently seized

12. Augusta, Georgia founded