In history, year 1740 has its own importance and known for many memorable events like famous birthdays, inventions, natural disaster, treaties, change of rulers, special days etc. Find below a list of important historical events which happened during the year 1740.
Top Historical Events of the Year 1740 ⚡:
| Date/Month | Event / Incidence / Incident |
|---|
| 08 april | War of the Austrian Succession-The Royal Navy captured the Spanish ship of the line Princesa and mustered her into British service. |
| 26 june | War of Jenkins' Ear-A Spanish column of 300 regular troops,free black militia and Indian auxiliaries stormed Britain'sstrategically crucial position of Fort Mose in Spanish Florida. |
| 20 october | Under the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, MariaTheresa assumed the throne of the Habsburg Monarchy in Austria. |
| 22 october | A two-week massacre of ethnic Chinese in Batavia, Dutch EastIndies, came to an end with at least 10,000 people killed. |
| 20 October | Maria Theresa became the ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia. |
| 28 April | Maratha ruler Peshwa Bajirao I passed away. |
| 03 February | King Charles de Bourbon of Naples invited the Jews to return to Sicily. |
| 08 April | Wars of the Austrian Succession: The Royal Navy captured a Spanish ship off the line of Princesa outside Cap Finister and put it into British service. |
| 31 May | Frederick II came to power in Persia after the death of his father, Frederick William I. |
| 22 June | King Frederick II of Persia endured tyranny and guaranteed freedom of the press. |
| 17 July | Prospero Lambertini was elected the fourteenth pope. |
| 09 October | Dutch Governor General Adrienne Valkenier allowed the killing of 8,000 Chinese residents of Batavia. |
| 06 November | Samuel Richardson's popular and influential magazine Pamela or the Virtue Award book was published in London. |
| 16 December | Frederick II of Persia invaded the succession of Austria to start the war and the Habsburg occupation of Silesia. |
Famous birthdays in the year 1740:
| Date/Month | Name / Profession / Country |
|---|
| 02 June | Marquis de Sade / Politician / France |
| 02 March | Nicholas Pocock / Painter / United Kingdom |
| 02 August | Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux / General / France |
| 04 February | Carl Michael Bellman / Poet / Sweden |
| 04 November | Augustus Toplady / Composer / United Kingdom |
| 07 September | Johan Tobias Sergel / Sculptor / Sweden |
| 07 May | Nikolai Arkharov / Police Officer / Russia |
| 10 August | Samuel Arnold / Composer / United Kingdom |
| 12 September | Johann Heinrich Jung / Author / Germany |
| 15 August | Matthias Claudius / Poet / Germany |
| 16 February | Giambattista Bodoni / Publisher / Italy |
| 17 February | Horace-Bénédict de Saussure / Physicist / Switzerland |
| 18 April | Sir Francis Baring / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 20 October | Isabelle de Charrière / Poet / Netherlands |
| 20 December | Arthur Lee / Physician / United States of America |
| 22 January | Noah Phelps / Lawyer / United States of America |
| 26 August | Joseph-Michel Montgolfier / Inventor / France |
| 27 July | Jeanne Baré / Explorer / France |
| 29 October | James Boswell / Author / Scotland |
| 31 March | Panoutsos Notaras / Politician / Greece |