He took deacon's orders in the Church of England in 1740 and was appointed curate to Theophilus Evans ( 1693 – 1767 ) in the parishes of Llanwrtyd, Llanfihangel Abergwesyn and Llanddewi Abergwesyn.

In 1740 the curate in the parishes of Llanwrtyd, Llanfihangel Abergwesyn and Llanddewi Abergwesyn, was Wales ' most famous hymn-writer William Williams Pantycelyn.

There is a legend that Augustus Montague Toplady ( 1740 – 1778 ), who was the curate at Blagdon, was inspired to write the hymn Rock of Ages while sheltering under a rock in the combe during a thunderstorm in the late 18th century.

In 1740 the curate in the parishes of Llanwrtyd, Llanfihangel Abergwesyn and Llanddewi Abergwesyn, was Wales ' most famous hymn-writer William Williams Pantycelyn.

The history of Lobos began in 1740 when a Jesuit mission led by Reverend Father Falkner, who surveyed the centre and South of the Province of Buenos Aires and thus picked up some geographic information of the area.

In 1740 a Jesuit mission led by Reverend Father Kalkner surveyed the centre and south of the province of Buenos Aires and thus picked up some geographic information on the area.

* Right Reverend Lewis Bagot ( 1740 – 1802 )

Reverend John Abernethy ( 19 October 1680 – 1 December 1740 ) was an Irish Presbyterian church leader, the grandfather of the surgeon John Abernethy.

The last maker of the family was Nicolo's son, Girolamo Amati, known as Hieronymus II ( February 26, 1649 – February 21, 1740 ).

Young Mitchell was only 11 when he played on Kilmarnock Bowling green, the oldest club in Scotland, instituted in 1740.

Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.

1710 – 14 October 1740 ) was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods.

It was Euler ( presumably around 1740 ) who turned his attention to the exponential function instead of logarithms, and obtained the correct formula now named after him.

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

Elias Boudinot was born in Philadelphia on May 2, 1740.

Frederik, who was impressed with this walking encyclopedia made him and his brother Bonomo Prussian counts in 1740.

Frederick William I () ( 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740 ) was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg ( as Frederick William II ) from 1713 until his death.

Frederick William died in 1740 at age 51 and was interred at the Garrison Church in Potsdam.

He was soon replaced by another legate in 1740, and he retired to Piacenza, where in 1730 Clement XII appointed him administrator of the hospital of San Lazzaro, a medieval foundation for the benefit of lepers.

However, some 22 years later, in the 1740 autobiography, he offered a different explanation, claiming that he was motivated by his desire for university education.

there were the sales of linen and cattle to England, the cash flows from military service, and the tobacco trade that was dominated by Glasgow Tobacco Lords after 1740.

The Austrian branch went extinct in the male person in 1740 with the death of Charles VI and in the female person in 1780 with the death of his daughter Maria Theresa and was succeeded by the Vaudemont branch of the House of Lorraine in the person of her son Joseph II.

All kings elected from 1438 onwards were from among the Habsburg Archdukes of Austria ( and later Kings of Hungary and Bohemia ) until 1740, when the archduchy was inherited by a woman, Maria Theresa.

Having shown an early interest in art, Reynolds was apprenticed in 1740 to the fashionable London portrait painter Thomas Hudson, who had also been born in Devon.

He was later restored and took part in the conclaves of 1730 and 1740.

Pope Benedict XIV ( 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758 ), born Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini, was Pope from 17 August 1740 to 3 May 1758.

He was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme on 10 May 1728 and was elected Pope in 1740.

Pope Clement XII ( 7 April 1652 – 6 February 1740 ), born Lorenzo Corsini, was Pope from 12 July 1730 to 6 February 1740.

The most accurate early plan of Stonehenge was that made by Bath architect John Wood in 1740.

According to Robert Hughes in The Fatal Shore, the population of England and Wales, which had remained steady at 6 million from 1700 to 1740, rose dramatically after 1740.

According to Robert Hughes in The Fatal Shore, the population of England and Wales, which had remained steady at 6 million from 1700 to 1740, rose dramatically after 1740.

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

The Arboretum in the park was begun in 1740 and contains plants and trees from many different countries including Spain, Mexico and Wales ; the ' Castlewellan Gold ' form of Leyland Cypress – originating from a single mutant tree in the arboretum and widely propagated from the 1970s – was selected by the park director, John Keown, being first named Cupressus macrocarpa Keownii, 1963.

Spark was given to Ogle by Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore during Ogle's trip to England in 1740 and presented to Ogle by the Prince of Wales.

The House of Habsburg (; ), also Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and Spanish Empire and several other countries.

In 1740 the catastrophic result of Anson's circumnavigation attracted much attention in Europe ; out of 1900 men, 1400 had died, most of them allegedly from having contracted scurvy.

* 1739 – 1740, one of the most severe winters in the UK on record.

Thereafter, until the end of the century, Pierrot appeared fairly regularly in English pantomimes ( which were originally mute harlequinades but later evolved into the Christmas pantomimes of today ; in the 19th century, the harlequinade was presented as a " play within a play " during the pantomime ), finding his most notable interpreter in Carlo Delpini ( 1740 – 1828 ).

The War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 48 ) – including King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins ' Ear ( which actually began formally on 23 October 1739 ), and two of the three Silesian wars – involved most of the powers of Europe over the question of Maria Theresa's succession to the realms of the House of Habsburg.

King Frederick II of Prussia conquered most of Silesia from Austria in 1740 during the Silesian Wars ; Prussian control was confirmed in the Peace of Breslau in 1742.

The two first men who really systematically explored the regions of ice and snow were Horace-Bénédict de Saussure ( 1740 – 1799 ), as regards the Pennine Alps, and the Benedictine monk of Disentis, Placidus a Spescha ( 1752 – 1833 ), most of whose ascents were made before 1806 ), in the valleys at the sources of the Rhine.

Prior to the arrival of European settlers around 1740, Greenbrier County, like most of West Virginia, was used as a hunting grounds by the Shawnee and Cherokee Nations.

The Indian Queen Tavern ( CE-127 ; circa 1740 ): One of the founders of Charlestown, Zebulon Hollingsworth, was an inn-keeper who constructed the “ Indian Queen ,” the most significant historic resource in Charlestown.

After the interval of 1740 to 1744, he became the official court musician, and for the most part, composed pieces intended to entertain, with plenty of dance music emphasising sensuality and an idealised pastoral atmosphere.

His most comprehensive pronouncement on the subject was his sermon " Free Grace ," preached at Bristol in 1740.

Over the next century this work was extended most notably by the Cassini family: between 1683 and 1718 Jean-Dominique Cassini and his son Jacques Cassini surveyed the whole of the Paris meridian from Dunkirk to Perpignan ; and between 1733 and 1740 Jacques and his son César Cassini undertook the first triangulation of the whole country, including a re-surveying of the meridian arc, leading to the publication in 1745 of the first map of France constructed on rigorous principles.

A number of the 18th century waffle recipes take on names to designate their country or region / city of origin – Schwedische Waffeln, Gauffres à l ’ Allemande and, most famous of all the 18th century varieties, Gauffres à la Flamande, which are first recorded in 1740.

As early medieval slavery did not exist already, and serfdom was not known yet-it was gradually introduced only after the Hussite wars by the victorious nobility-Ottokar can be safely called that one of Czech rulers, who did the most for real equality of people before empress Maria-Theresa ( 1740 – 1780 ) and emperor Josef II ( 1780 – 1790 ).

By 1740 Sheffield became the most extensive user of water-power in Britain and probably in Europe.

It was discovered in the Ambrosian Library in Milan by Father Ludovico Antonio Muratori ( 1672 – 1750 ), the most famous Italian historian of his generation, and published in 1740.

With most of Silesia, it was conquered by Prussia in the First Silesian War of 1740 – 42 and afterwards incorporated into the Silesia Province.

The most famous of runaway slaves was Thomas Pellow, who had the story of his journey published in 1740.

The most earliest known may be Anna Ivanovna's palace ( 1739 – 1740 ) in St. Petersburg, Russia.

When Spain attacked Georgia in 1740, most of the Jewish families fled to Charleston, fearing the Spanish Inquisition.

He was the most prolific English song composer of 1715 – 1740, and he wrote his own lyrics to all but twelve of his two hundred and fifty songs ( Gillespie 128 ).

During recent history the lake's complete disappearance has been documented in considerable detail on several occasions, e. g. in 1740 – 1742, 1811 – 1813, and most recently in 1866, when the private diary of a local, Gottlieb Wenzel, noted that he crossed the bed of the lake on June 4 without soiling his boots.