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Everything about 1740 totally explainedYear 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).
Events of 1740
January - June
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.
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's 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.
University of Pennsylvania is founded.
Spain begins construction on Fort Matanzas in the Matanzas Inlet, approximately 15 miles south of St. Augustine, Florida
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)
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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)
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