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1740 (MDCCXL ) was aleap year starting on Friday of theGregorian calendar and aleap year starting on Tuesday of theJulian calendar , the 1740th year of theCommon Era (CE) andAnno Domini 2nd millennium , the 40th year of the18th century , and the 1st year of the1740s decade. As of the start of 1740, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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January 8 – All 237 crewmen on theDutch East India Company shipRooswijk Goodwin Sands , off of the coast of England, as it is beginning its second voyage to the Indies. The wreckage is discovered more than 250 years later, in 2004.[ 1] February 20 – TheNorth Carolina General Assembly incorporates the town of Newton asWilmington ,North Carolina , named forSpencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington and patron of Royal GovernorGabriel Johnston .March 16 –King Edward of the Miskito Indians signs a treaty making his kingdom, located on the coast of modern-dayNicaragua , a protectorate of Great Britain.[ 2] March 25 – Construction begins onBethesda Orphanage for boys nearSavannah, Georgia , founded byGeorge Whitefield .February 4 –Carl Michael Bellman , Swedish poet, composer (d.1795 )February 15 –Juan Andrés , Spanish Jesuit (d.1817 )February 16 –Giambattista Bodoni , Italian publisher and engraver (d.1813 )February 17 –John Sullivan , American General in theAmerican Revolutionary War , delegate in theContinental Congress (d.1795 )March –Johann van Beethoven , German musician, father ofLudwig van Beethoven (d.1792 )March 16 –Johann Jacob Schweppe , German-born inventor, founder of the Schweppes Company (d.1821 )April 7 –Haym Salomon , Polish-Jewish American financier of theAmerican Revolution (d.1785 )April 14 –Anna Strong , Patriot spy during the American Revolutionary War (d.1812 )May 7 –Nikolai Arkharov , Russian police chief (d.1814 )Marquis de Sade June 2 –Marquis de Sade , French author, for whom sadism is named (d.1814 )June 24 –Juan Ignacio Molina , Spanish-Chilean Jesuit priest, naturalist, historian, translator, geographer, botanist, ornithologist and linguist (d.1829 )June 27 –James Woodforde , English clergyman anddiarist (d.1803 )July 27 –Jeanne Baré , French explorer (d.1803 )August 23 – EmperorIvan VI of Russia (d.1764 )August 26 –Joseph-Michel Montgolfier , French inventor (d.1810 )September 12 –Johann Heinrich Jung , German writer (d.1817 )September 23 –Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d.1813 )September 25 –Hercules Mulligan , tailor and spy during theAmerican Revolutionary War (d.1825 )October 29 –James Boswell , Scottish author (d.1795 )October 31 –Philip James de Loutherbourg , English artist (d.1812 )December –Elisabeth Olin , Swedish opera singer (d.1828 )Pope Clement XII Frederick William I ,King in Prussia Saint Theophilus of Corte Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor Anna, Empress of Russia January –Louise Élisabeth de Joybert , politically active Canadian governors' wife (b.1673 )January 5 –Antonio Lotti , Italian composer (b.1667 )January 17 –Matthias Buchinger , German artist (b.1674 )January 20 –Niccolò Comneno Papadopoli , Italian jurist of religious law and historian (b.1655 )January 21 –Nicholas Trott , colonial magistrate, South Carolina Chief Justice (b.1663 )January 27 –Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon ,Prime Minister of France (b.1692 )January 29 –Richard Lumley, 2nd Earl of Scarbrough (b.1686 )February 6 –Pope Clement XII (b.1652 )[ 8] February 23 –Massimiliano Soldani Benzi , Italian artist (b.1656 )February 29 –Pietro Ottoboni , Italian cardinal (b.1667 )March 23 –Olof Rudbeck the Younger , Swedish scientist and explorer (b.1660 )April 28 –Bajirao I , Great Maratha warrior and Prime Minister of Marartha Empire (b.1700 )April 23 –Thomas Tickell , English writer (b.1685 )May 17 –Jean Cavalier , French Protestant rebel leader (b.1681 )May 31 –Frederick William I ,King in Prussia (b.1688 )June 1 –Samuel Werenfels , Swiss theologian (b.1657 )June 6 –Alexander Spotswood , British governor of Virginia Colony (b.1676 )June 17 June 18 –Piers Butler, 3rd Viscount Galmoye , Anglo-Irish nobleman (b.1652 )July 2 –Thomas Baker , English antiquarian (b.1656 )October 5 –Johann Philipp Baratier , German scholar (b.1721 )October 11 –Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst , Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b.1679 )October 20 –Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b.1685 )October 28 –Anna, Empress of Russia (b.1693 )December 1 –John Abernethy , Irish Protestant minister (b.1680 )December 20 –Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon , British military officer and statesman (b.1675 )December 30 –John Senex , English geographer (b. ca. 1678)[ 9] ^ Wendy van Duivenvoorde,Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding: The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-Century VOC Ships (Texas A&M University Press, 2015) p145 ^ "Mosquito Coast", inHistorical Dictionary of the British Empire , ed. by Kenneth J. Panton (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) p384 ^ "On this day in 1740..." Adam Smith Institute . July 7, 2010. RetrievedNovember 19, 2019 .^ Williams, Hywel (2005).Cassell's Chronology of World History 308 .ISBN 0-304-35730-8 ^ Hamilton, Sidney Graves (1903).Hertford College ^ "Image: Bird's eye view of Batavia showing the massacre of the Chinese" . Archived fromthe original on September 21, 2009. RetrievedNovember 12, 2006 .^ public domain : Stephen, Leslie , ed. (1886). "Bingham, Margaret ".Dictionary of National Biography Smith, Elder & Co .^ "Clement XII | pope" .Encyclopedia Britannica . RetrievedApril 22, 2021 .^ "The Historical Theater in the Year 400 AD, in Which Both Romans and Barbarians Resided Side by Side in the Eastern Part of the Roman Empire" .World Digital Library . RetrievedJuly 27, 2013 .
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