This article is about the year 1740.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
Decades: | 1710s 1720s 1730s – 1740s – 1750s 1760s 1770s |
Years: | 1737 1738 1739 – 1740 – 1741 1742 1743 |
1740 by topic: | |
Arts and Sciences | |
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1740 MDCCXL |
Ab urbe condita | 2493 |
Armenian calendar | 1189 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԹ |
Assyrian calendar | 6490 |
Bahá'í calendar | -104–-103 |
Bengali calendar | 1147 |
Berber calendar | 2690 |
British Regnal year | 13 Geo. 2 – 14 Geo. 2 |
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 | 1796–1797 |
- 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) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4073 |
Minguo calendar | 172 before ROC 民前172年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2283 |
Year 1740 (MDCCXL) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
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 – Frederick II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Frederick William I.
- June 26 – War of Jenkins' Ear – Siege of Fort Mose: A Spanish column of 300 regular troops, free black militia and Indian auxiliaries storms Britain's strategically crucial position of Fort Mose, Florida.
July–December
- August 1 – The song Rule, Britannia! is first performed at Cliveden, the country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.
- November – Hertford College, Oxford, is founded for the first time.[3]
- December 16 – Frederick II of Prussia invades the Habsburg possession of Silesia, starting the War of the Austrian Succession.
Date unknown
- 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.
- 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.
Births
- 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 23 – 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)
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)
References
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 308. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ image: Bird's eye view of Batavia showing the massacre of the Chinese
- ^ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). The Encyclopædia of Oxford. London: Macmillan. p. 182. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.