1739 Calendar
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1739 Historical Event(s)
January 1, 1739
– Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
February 13, 1739
– Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
February 23, 1739
– Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
March 22, 1739
– Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
September 9, 1739
– Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
September 18, 1739
– The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
October 3, 1739
– The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736–1739.
October 23, 1739
– War of Jenkins’ Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
November 20, 1739
– Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
Who Were Born On 1739?
January 19, 1739
– Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
January 25, 1739
– Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
February 15, 1739
– Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813)
March 5, 1739
– Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physican and statesman (d. 1819)
March 19, 1739
– Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)
July 26, 1739
– George Clinton, American politician, 1st Governor of New York, and 4th Vice President of the United States (d. 1812)
September 17, 1739
– John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
September 24, 1739
– Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
November 2, 1739
– Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)