1740

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Year '1740' ('MDCCXL') was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

References

Events of

January - June

★ February 20 - The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Newton as Wilmington, North Carolina, named for Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, and patron of Royal Governor Gabriel Johnston.

★ May 31 - Friedrich II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I.

July - December

★ August 17 - Pope Benedict XIV succeeds Pope Clement XII as the 247th pope.

★ October 9 - Dutch East India Company massacre leading of 5,000–10,000 Chinese inhabitants victims fell in Batavia.^[1]

★ October 20 - Maria Theresia of Austria inherits the Habsburg hereditary dominions (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and present-day Belgium). However, her succession to the Holy Roman Empire is contested widely because she is a woman.

★ December 16 - Friedrich II of Prussia invades the Habsburg possession of Silesia, starting the War of the Austrian Succession.

Undated

★ By an act of the Parliament of Great Britain, alien immigrants (including Huguenots and Jews) in the colonies receive British nationality.


★ Enfield, North Carolina was founded.

★ Adam Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford.

★ George Whitefield founds the Bethesda Orphanage.

★ The song "Rule Britannia" is first performed at Cliveden.

★ Hertford College, Oxford, is founded for the first time.

★ University of Pennsylvania is founded.

Births

★ February 4 - Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (died 1795).

★ March - Johann van Beethoven, German musician and father of Ludwig van Beethoven (died 1792)

★ May 7 - Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police chief (d.1814)

★ June 2 - Marquis de Sade, French author (died 1814)

★ June 6 - Victor maitre, French Aristocrat (died 1796)

★ August 14 - Pope Pius VII (died 1823)

★ August 23 - Emperor Ivan VI of Russia (died 1764)

★ September 29 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (died 1813)

★ October 29 - James Boswell, Scottish author (died 1795)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Juan Andrés, Spanish Jesuit (died 1817)

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★ Johann Jacob Schweppe, inventor and founder of the Schweppes Company (died 1821).
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 5 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (born 1667)

★ January 27 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (born 1692)

★ February 6 - Pope Clement XII (born 1652)

★ March 23 - Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (born 1660).

★ April 23 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (born 1685)

★ May 31 - Frederick William I, King in Prussia (born 1688)

★ June 1 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (born 1657)

★ June 6 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony (born 1676)

★ June 17 - William Wyndham, English politician (born 1687)

★ October 5 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (born 1721)

★ October 20 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1685)

★ October 28 - Anna, Empress of Russia (born 1693)

★ December 20 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, British military officer and statesman (born 1675)
: ''See also .''

References

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