The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin ( 1739 – 1811 ), in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture ( see, for example, the triumphal Arch of Titus ).

* 1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.

There is no reference to this name before 1739.

The oldest consumer magazine still in print is The Scots Magazine, which was first published in 1739, though multiple changes in ownership and gaps in publication totaling over 90 years weaken that claim.

After he had taken deacon's orders, however, he concentrated on science, and, through the patronage of Jacques Cassini, obtained employment, first in surveying the coast from Nantes to Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French arc of the meridian, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge.

* 1739 – The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736 – 1739.

* 1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.

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She wrote several popular comedies, of which Das Testament is the best, and translated The Spectator ( 9 volumes, 1739 – 1743 ), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1744 ) and other English and French works.

The Treaty of Niš is a peace treaty signed on September 29, 1739 in Niš ( East Serbia ), by the Ottoman Empire on one side and Russian Empire on the other.

* French general Charles-François Dumouriez ( 1739 – 1823 ) is buried at St. Mary the Virgin parish church.

Cruden recorded his experience in The London Citizen Grievously Injured ( 1739 ) and Smart's stay there is recorded by his daughter.

In 1739, much of the area which is now known as Gramercy was sold to Joseph Delille Dupart, Commissioner of Indian Nations under Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.

It is not know how successful the new magazine was, or why Heinsius included it in his publishing program since from 1739 he already had a similar monthly magazine under the title of " Genealogical and historical messages of the principal events of the European courts ".

This is why we have two versions of Castor et Pollux ( 1737 and 1754 ) and three of Dardanus ( 1739, 1744, and 1760 ).

The Travancore-Dutch War ( 1739 – 1753 ) is the earliest example of an Asian state overcoming a European power in war.

Laughton subsequently examined the 1739 publication and, in writing Robert Jenkins entry for the Dictionary of National Biography he dismissed it as, " a catch-penny chapbook, in which no reference is made to Jenkins's case, except in a worthless frontispiece ".

Oltenia (, also called Lesser Wallachia in antiquated versions, with the alternate Latin names Wallachia Minor, Wallachia Alutana, Wallachia Caesarea between 1718 and 1739 ) is a historical province and geographical region of Romania, in western Wallachia.

Taylor is best known for his editions of some of the Greek orators, chiefly valuable for the notes on Attic law, e. g. Lysias ( 1739 ); Demosthenes Contra Leptinem ( 1741 ) and Contra Midiam ( 1743, with Lycurgus Contra Leocratem ), intended as specimens of a proposed edition, in five volumes, of the orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus and Demades, of which only vols.

It is one of England's oldest children's charities, established by royal charter in 1739 as the Foundling Hospital.

' The identity ascribed to man is nothing more than a fiction ' ( Hume, 1739 )

There is tentative evidence that there was another assistant, P. Domenico Dal Mela, who went on in 1739 to build the first upright piano.

Bayes ' document contains elements of conjecture ; for instance, his claim that Turpin was married to a Miss Palmer ( and not Elizabeth Millington ) is almost certainly incorrect, and the date of Turpin's marriage, for which no documentary evidence has been found, appears to be based solely on Bayes ' claim that in 1739 Turpin had married 11 or 12 years earlier.

The Austrians, in their turn, rapidly expanded their empire: in 1718 an important part of Wallachia, called Oltenia, was incorporated to the Austrian monarchy and was only returned in 1739.

The territory corresponding to Panama was incorporated later in 1739.

The town was incorporated in 1739, one year after settlement of the town center began.

First chartered as Indian Town in 1737, the village was officially incorporated on June 22, 1739 as Stockbridge.

Warwick was first settled in 1739 and was officially incorporated in 1763.

The community remained part of Boston until it was set off and incorporated in 1739, when it was named after Chelsea, a neighborhood in London.

Hardwick was first settled in 1737 and was officially incorporated in 1739, named in honor of Lord Hardwicke, an English nobleman.

Being still subject to attack by the Iroquois, they finally — between 1726 and 1739 — became incorporated with the Catawba …… They are mentioned as with the Catawba but speaking their own distinct dialect as late as 1743 ( Adair ).

It was established in 1739 as Quabbin, incorporated as Quabbin Parish in 1754 and became the town of Greenwich ( named for John Campbell, Duke of Greenwich ) in 1754.

It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739 – 40.

* 1739 – Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer ( d. 1818 )

He supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.

* 1739 – Dick Turpin, English highwayman ( b. 1705 )

In 1717, the Viceroyalty of New Granada was originally created, and then it was temporarily removed, to finally be reestablished in 1739.

The Qianlong Emperor in ceremonial armor on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione ( 1688 – 1766 ) | Giuseppe Castiglione, dated 1739 or 1758.

Beginning with The Governess ( 1739, in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ), Chardin shifted his attention from working-class subjects to slightly more spacious scenes of bourgeoise life.

Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature ( 1739 ), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic " science of man " that examined the psychological basis of human nature.

Alexander Gordon ( 1739 – 1792 ), third son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Lord of Session from 1788 to 1792 under the judicial title of Lord Rockville.

In 1739 and 1748, David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the associations and causes of ideas with visual images, in some sense forerunners to the language of film.

In Summer 1739 he left with Lord Baltimore from Sheerness to Newcastle upon Tyne.

* 1739 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect ( d. 1813 )

* 1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.

Benedict's successor, Clement XII ( elected 1730 ), named him legate of Ravenna, where he erected the Porta Alberoni ( 1739 ), a magnificent gateway that formerly provided access to the city's dockyards, and has since been moved to the entrance of the Teatro Rasi.

Sir Peter Warren began accumulating land in 1731 and built a frame house capacious enough to hold a sitting of the Assembly when smallpox rendered the city dangerous in 1739.

In 1739, Nader Shah, emperor of Iran, defeated the Mughal army at the huge Battle of Karnal.

* 1739 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general ( d. 1823 )

* 1739 – George Clinton, American politician, 4th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1812 )

* 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect ( d. 1808 )

In 1739, he entered the Navy as a surgeon's mate, serving in the Mediterranean, off the coast of West Africa and in the West Indies.

From 1730 to 1739 he worked in England, in Pown House, Moor Park and in the Theatre of Covent Garden.

There it stayed until the invasion of Nader Shah of Khorasan in 1739 and the sacking of Agra and Delhi.

Along with the Peacock Throne, he also carried off the Koh-i-Noor to Persia in 1739.