1740
| Centuries: | [[{{{cp}}}]] · 18th century · 19th century |
| Decades: | 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s |
| Years: | 1737 1738 1739 1740 1741 1742 1743 |
| 1740 in topic: |
| Arts |
| Archaeology - Architecture - Art - Literature - Music |
| Other topics |
| Canada - Mexico - Science |
| Lists of leaders |
| Colonial governors - State leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Births - Deaths |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Establishments - Disestablishments |
| Works category |
| Works |
| Gregorian calendar | 1740 MDCCXL |
| Ab urbe condita | 2493 |
| Armenian calendar | 1189 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԹ |
| Chinese calendar | 4376/4436-12-3 (己未年十二月初三日) — to — 4377/4437-11-13(庚申年十一月十三日) |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1732 – 1733 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5500 – 5501 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1795 – 1796 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1662 – 1663 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4841 – 4842 |
| Iranian calendar | 1118 – 1119 |
| Islamic calendar | 1153 – 1154 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2283 |
1740 (MDCCXL) was a leap year beginning on a Friday in the 18th century.
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Events
- By the act of English parliament, 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, founded for first time.
- University of Pennsylvania founded.
January
February
- 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.
March
April
May
- May 31 - Friedrich II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I.
June
July
August
- August 17 - Pope Benedict XIV succeeds Pope Clement XII as the 245th pope.
September
October
- October 9 - Dutch East India Company massacre leading of 5,000-10,000 chinese inhabitants victims fell in Batavia.[1]
- 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
December
- December 16 - Friedrich II of Prussia invades the Habsburg possession of Silesia, starting the War of the Austrian Succession.
Births
- Jacob Schweppes, inventor and founder of the Schweppes Company (died 1821).
- 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)
- 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 1846)
- September 29 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (died 1813)
- October 29 - James Boswell, Scottish author (died 1795)
- Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit (died 1817)
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 - King Friedrich Wilhelm I of 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 I of Russia (born 1693)
- December 20 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, British military officer and statesman (born 1675)
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