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February 24 : Persian Empire troops invadeDelhi and defeatMughal Empire in IndianBattle of Karnal .1739 by topic Arts and science Countries Lists of leaders Birth and death categories Establishments and disestablishments categories Works category
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1739 (MDCCXXXIX ) was acommon year starting on Thursday of theGregorian calendar and acommon year starting on Monday of theJulian calendar , the 1739th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 39th year of the18th century , and the 10th and last year of the1730s decade. As of the start of 1739, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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July 9 – The first group purporting to represent anall-England cricket team , consisting of 11 players from various parts of England, comes toKent and loses to the renowned Kent team, led byLord John Sackville .[ 3] July 12 – TheBritish East India Company signs a treaty with theMaratha Empire to gain the right of free trade within the territory.[ 4] July 22 – TheOttoman Empire retakesBelgrade fromAustria 'sHabsburg monarchy after winning theBattle of Grocka .[ 5] August 20 – TheViceroyalty of New Granada , incorporating modern-day Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela is re-established by the royalcedula Philip V of Spain , 16 years after it had been dissolved, and adds the territory ofPanama as well.[ 6] September 9 – TheStono Rebellion , aslave rebellion , erupts nearCharleston, South Carolina .September 18 – TheTreaty of Belgrade brings theAustro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39) to an end.
January 25 –Charles François Dumouriez , French general (d.1823 )February 15 –Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart , French architect (d.1813 )March 16 –George Clymer ,American politician andFounding Father (d.1813 )March 19 –Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance , Third Consul of France (d.1824 )August 31 –Johann Augustus Eberhard , German theologian, philosopher (d.1809 )September 12 –Mary Bosanquet Fletcher ,Methodist preacher and philanthropist (d. 1816)October 11 –Grigory Potemkin , Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favourite of Catherine the Great (d.1791 )November 2 –Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf , Austrian composer (d.1799 )November 8 –Henrik Gabriel Porthan , Finnish professor and historian (d.1804 )[ 9] November 20 –Jean-François de La Harpe , French critic (d.1803 )December 14 –Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours , French politician (d.1817 )date unknown Dick Turpin April 7 –Dick Turpin , English highwayman (hanged) (b.1705 )April 19 –Nicholas Saunderson , English scientist and mathematician (b.1682 )May 10 –Cosmas Damian Asam , German painter and architect during the late Baroque period (b.1686 )June 18 –Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp , Swedish nobleman (b.1700 )June 20 –Edmond Martène , French Benedictine historian and liturgist (b.1654 )July 24 –Benedetto Marcello , Italian composer (b.1686 )September 8 –Yuri Troubetzkoy , Governor of Belgorod (b.1668 )September 12 –Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b.1667 )September 19 –Anne Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne , French princess (b.1722 )October 6 –Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné , French noble (b.1684 )October 18 –Antônio José da Silva , Brazilian-born dramatist (b.1705 )November 14 –Juan de Galavís , Spanish Catholic archbishop (b.1683 )November 16 –Harry Grey, 3rd Earl of Stamford , English peer (b.1685 )date unknown –Anne Dodd ,English news seller,pamphlet shop proprietor (b.1685 )^ "History of The New Room" . Bristol: The New Room. Archived fromthe original on August 17, 2013. RetrievedJuly 17, 2011 .^ "History" . Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien. RetrievedSeptember 27, 2011 .^ Waghorn, H. T. (1899).Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773) .Blackwood . pp. 22– 23.^ Sailendra Nath Sen (1994).Anglo-Maratha Relations, 1785–96 .Popular Prakashan . p. 1. ^ Lund, Eric A. (1999).War for the Every Day: Generals, Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740 .Greenwood Press . ^ Santamaría de Paredes, Vicente; Van Dyke, Harry Weston (1910).A Study of the Question of Boundaries Between the Republics of Peru and Ecuador . B.S. Adams. p. 60. ^ Kinealy, Christine ; Moran, Gerard (2019).The History of the Irish Famine .Routledge .^ Póirtéir, Cathal, ed. (1955).The Great Irish Famine .Mercier Press . pp. 53– 55. ^ "Porthan, Henrik Gabriel (1739–1804)" .Filosofia.fi (in Finnish). September 21, 2007. RetrievedNovember 8, 2023 .
