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).
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[edit] Events of 1740
[edit] 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.
[edit] July - December
August 17 - Pope Benedict XIV succeeds Pope Clement XII as the 247th pope. October 9 - The Dutch East India Company massacres 5,000–10,000 Chinese inhabitants of 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.
[edit] 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 is 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. University of Pennsylvania is founded. Spain begins construction on Fort Matanzas in the Matanzas Inlet, approximately 15 miles south of St. Augustine, Florida. Annual British iron production reaches 17,000 tons.
[edit] Births
1740 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1740
MDCCXL
MDCCXL
Ab urbe condita 2493
Armenian calendar 1189
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Bahá'à calendar -104 – -103
Berber calendar 2690
Buddhist calendar 2284
Burmese calendar 1102
Byzantine calendar 7248 – 7249
Chinese calendar 己未年å二月åˆä¸‰æ—¥
(4376/4436-12-3)
(4377/4437-11-13)
(4376/4436-12-3)
— to —
庚申年å一月å三日(4377/4437-11-13)
Coptic calendar 1456 – 1457
Ethiopian calendar 1732 – 1733
Hebrew calendar 5500 – 5501
- Vikram Samvat 1795 – 1796
- Shaka Samvat 1662 – 1663
- Kali Yuga 4841 – 4842
Holocene calendar 11740
Iranian calendar 1118 – 1119
Islamic calendar 1152 – 1153
Japanese calendar Genbun 5
(元文5年)
(元文5年)
Korean calendar 4073
Thai solar calendar 2283
February 4 - Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795) February 16 - Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813) March - Johann van Beethoven, German musician and father of Ludwig van Beethoven (d. 1792) May 7 - Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police chief (d. 1814) June 2 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814) June 6 - Victor Maitre, French aristocrat (d. 1796) August 14 - Pope Pius VII (d. 1823) August 23 - Emperor Ivan VI of Russia (d. 1764) September 29 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813) October 29 - James Boswell, Scottish author (d. 1795) date unknown
Juan Andrés, Spanish Jesuit (d. 1817) Johann Jacob Schweppe, inventor and founder of the Schweppes Company (d. 1821)
- See also Category: 1740 births.
[edit] Deaths
January 5 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667) January 27 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692) February 6 - Pope Clement XII (b. 1652) March 23 - Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish scientist and explorer (b. 1660) April 23 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (b. 1685) May 31 - Frederick William I, King in Prussia (b. 1688) June 1 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657) June 6 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony (b. 1676) June 17 - William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687) October 5 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721) October 20 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685) October 28 - Anna, Empress of Russia (b. 1693) December 20 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, British military officer and statesman (b. 1675)
- See also Category: 1740 deaths.
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