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What Happened In Year 1740?

• 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 In The Year 1740?

• January 22, 1740 – Noah Phelps, American Spy (d. 1809)
• February 4, 1740 – Carl Michael Bellman, Swedish poet and composer (d. 1795)
• February 17, 1740 – Horace-Bénédict de Saussure, Swiss physicist and founder of alpinism (d. 1799)
• February 26, 1740 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813)
• April 18, 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker (d. 1810)
• May 2, 1740 – Elias Boudinot, President of the American Continental Congress (d. 1821)
• May 7, 1740 – Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
• July 27, 1740 – Jeanne Baré, French explorer (d. 1803)
• August 2, 1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general (d. 1817)
• August 14, 1740 – Pope Pius VII (d. 1823)
• August 15, 1740 – Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)
• August 26, 1740 – Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
• September 7, 1740 – Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814)
• September 12, 1740 – Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
• September 23, 1740 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
• October 20, 1740 – Isabelle de Charrière, Dutch writer (d. 1805)
• October 29, 1740 – James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)
• November 4, 1740 – Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn “Rock of Ages” (d. 1778)
• November 14, 1740 – Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven’s father and first teacher (d. 1792)
• December 20, 1740 – Arthur Lee, American diplomat (d. 1792)

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