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1740 Historical Event(s)
April 8, 1740
– War of Jenkin’s Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.
July 11, 1740
– Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
October 9, 1740
– Dutch colonists and various slave groups begin massacring ethnic Chinese in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000 and leading to a two-year-long war throughout Java.
October 20, 1740
– Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
Who Were Born On 1740?
January 22, 1740
– Noah Phelps, American Spy (d. 1809)
February 4, 1740
– Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795)
June 2, 1740
– Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
August 2, 1740
– Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general (d. 1817)
August 14, 1740
– Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
August 26, 1740
– Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
September 12, 1740
– Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
September 23, 1740
– Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
October 29, 1740
– James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)
November 14, 1740
– Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven’s father and first teacher (d. 1792)