* 1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general ( d. 1817 )

* 1688 – Frederick William I of Prussia ( d. 1740 )

* 1740 – Pope Pius VII ( d. 1823 )

* 1740 – Matthias Claudius, German poet ( d. 1815 )

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

* 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker ( d. 1810 )

* 1752 – Start of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in Burmese Civil War ( 1740 – 1757 )

* 1740 – War of Jenkin's Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa.

* 1740 – Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist ( d. 1802 )

* 1652 – Pope Clement XII ( d. 1740 )

In 1740, Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great ( 1740 – 1786 ), came to power.

( 1739 – 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.

* 1814 – Marquis de Sade, French writer ( b. 1740 )

* 1740 – Arthur Lee, American diplomat ( d. 1792 )

In 1757, he married Mary ( Polly ) Howard ( 1740 – 1770 ).

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.

* 1693 – Empress Anna of Russia ( d. 1740 )

* 1740 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver ( d. 1813 )

The Royal Navy captured a handful of the new French frigates during the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) and were impressed by them, particularly for their inshore handling capabilities.

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.

* Pietro Ottoboni ( 1667 – 1740 ), secretary of the Inquisition 1726-40

* July 2 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal ( d. 1740 )

* Pietro Ottoboni ( 1667 – 1740 ) ( 1689, 1738 )

It was later the subject of analyses by leading players of the day Alessandro Salvio ( 1604 ), Don Pietro Carrera ( c. 1617 ), and Gioachino Greco ( 1623 ), and later Comte Carlo Francesco Cozio ( c. 1740 ).

Amati is the name of a family of Italian violin makers, who flourished at Cremona from about 1549 to 1740.

* 1740 – Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer ( d. 1816 )

* 1692 – Geminiano Giacomelli, Italian composer ( d. 1740 )

* 1666 – Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri, Italian violin maker ( d. c. 1740 )

* probable – Antonio Lotti, Italian composer ( d. 1740 )

The first written record of Trichuris trichiura was made by Morgani, an Italian scientist, who identified the presence of the parasite in a case of worms residing in the colon in 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.

Giambattista Bodoni ( February 16, 1740 in Saluzzo – November 29, 1813 in Parma ) was an Italian engraver, publisher, printer and typographer of high repute remembered for designing a family of different typefaces called Bodoni.

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.

1667 – 5 January 1740 ) was an Italian composer of classical music.

Valentin Adamberger, also known by his Italian name Adamonti, ( 22 February 1740 or 6 July 174324 August 1804 ) was a German operatic tenor.

Garrett was born João Leitão da Silva in Porto, the son of António Bernardo da Silva Garrett ( 1740 – 1834 ), a Fidalgo of the Royal Household and Knight of the Order of Christ whose mother was the daughter of an Irish father born in exile in France and an Italian mother born in Spain, and his wife ( m. 1796 ) Ana Augusta de Almeida Leitão ( b. Porto, c. 1770 ).

The Kreisler Bergonzi is an antique violin made by the Italian luthier Carlo Bergonzi ( 1683 – 1747 ) from Cremona in 1740.

c. 1740 – 1780 ) was an Italian violin-maker, the eldest son of Alessandro Gagliano.

* July 15-Massimiliano Soldani Benzi, Italian sculptor and medallist ( died 1740 )