Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1710s  1720s  1730s  – 1740s –  1750s  1760s  1770s
Years:	1737 1738 1739 – 1740 – 1741 1742 1743

1740 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries:   Canada – Great Britain –

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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 1 Events of 1740 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 References

[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 (24 km) south of St. Augustine, Florida.
• Annual British iron production reaches 17,000 tons.

[edit] Births

1740 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1740 MDCCXL
Ab urbe condita	2493
Armenian calendar	1189 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԹ
Bahá'í calendar	-104 – -103
Bengali calendar	1147
Berber calendar	2690
Buddhist calendar	2284
Burmese calendar	1102
Byzantine calendar	7248 – 7249
Chinese calendar	己未年十二月初三日 (4376/4436-12-3) — to — 庚申年十一月十三日 (4377/4437-11-13)
Coptic calendar	1456 – 1457
Ethiopian calendar	1732 – 1733
Hebrew calendar	5500 – 5501
Hindu calendars
- 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)
Korean calendar	4073
Thai solar calendar	2283
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• 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)
• June 17 – Saint Theophilus of Corte, Corsican preacher and missionary (b. 1676)
• 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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[edit] References

1. ^ image: Bird's eye view of Batavia showing the massacre of the Chinese