In Warsaw as Stanislas Leszczynski appears to be on the verge of being elected King of Poland, Russia, Austria and Saxony sign Löwenwolde's Treaty (named for Russian diplomat Karl Gustav von Löwenwolde), pledging to go to war to place Frederick Augustus, son of the late King Augustus II, on the throne. September 12 – Stanislas Leszczynski, who had been King of Poland from 1704 to 1709 until being driven from the throne by King Augustus II, is returned to office by the vote of the Sejm. Russia and Austria protest the election, since King Stanislaus is backed by France and Sweden. September 26 – The Treaty of Turin is signed in Turin as a secret agreement between King Louis XV of France and King Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia. October–December October 5 – The election of Augustus III, to succeed his father as King of Poland, sparks the War of the Polish Succession. October 10 – France declares war on Austria and Saxony . October 24 – The Battle of Kirkuk starts which will lead to the defeat of the Ottoman army under general Topal Osman Pasha. November 23 – The 1733 slave insurrection on St. John begins: Slaves from Akwamu rebel against their owners in the Danish West Indies. December 19 – Unsuccessful in capturing Baghdad from the Ottoman Empire, Persia's ruler Nader Shah signs the Treaty of Baghdad with the Ottoman Governor, Ahmad Khan Pasha, with the Turks and the Iranians agreeing to restore the boundary between the two empires to the lines before the 1732 Ottoman invasion of Iran. December 25 – The Molasses Act goes into full effect. Births January 22 – Philip Carteret, British Naval Officer (d. 1796) January 24 – Benjamin Lincoln, major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and politician (d. 1810) March 13 – Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (d. 1804) May 4 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor (d. 1799) July 27 – Jeremiah Dixon, English surveyor and astronomer (d. 1779) September 5 – Christoph Martin Wieland, German poet and writer (d. 1813) September 18 – George Read, American lawyer and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1798) October 14 – François Sébastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798) October 15 – Lisa Eriksdotter, Finnish visionary November 16 – Siraj ud-Daulah, the last independent