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* Alfred ( Arne opera ), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne
Astronomers use the Julian calendar for years before 1582, including this year 0, and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 as exemplified by Jacques Cassini ( 1740 ), Simon Newcomb ( 1898 ) and Fred Espenak ( 2007 ).
Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.
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.
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.
King Agadja ( 1708 – 1740 ) attempted to end the slave trade by keeping the slaves on plantations producing palm oil, but the European profits on slaves and Dahomey's dependency on firearms were too great.
It is based on earlier inventions by the Frenchmen Basile Bouchon ( 1725 ), Jean Baptiste Falcon ( 1728 ) and Jacques Vaucanson ( 1740 )
Following a revolt, 5, 000 Chinese were massacred by the Dutch and natives on 9 October 1740 and the following year, Chinese inhabitants were moved to Glodok outside the city walls.
Two famous Nevisian buildings from the 18th century are Hermitage Plantation, built of lignum vitae wood in 1740, the oldest surviving wooden house still in use in the Caribbean today, and the Bath Hotel, the first hotel in the Caribbean, a luxury hotel and spa built by John Huggins in 1778.
Inspired by the evangelical preaching of George Whitefield and others, Gilbert Tennent delivered a sermon in West Nottingham, Maryland in 1740 on " The Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry.
The most accurate early plan of Stonehenge was that made by Bath architect John Wood in 1740.
It was mainly by scurvy that George Anson, in his celebrated voyage of 1740 – 2, lost within the first ten months nearly two-thirds of his crew ( 1300 out of 2000 ).
Around 1740, a collection of Albinoni's violin sonatas was published in France as a posthumous work, and scholars long presumed that meant that Albinoni had died by that time.
He had presented the paper several times that year but it was rejected until the November revision was finally accepted and published by the Academy in 1740.
Although a lot across Sixth Street from Independence Hall was offered without cost by James Logan, its owner, the Trustees realized that the building erected in 1740, which was still vacant, would be an even better site.
* c. 1740: Modern steel was developed by Benjamin Huntsman
He in turn was succeeded by his grandson and son-in law until his grandson was killed in battle and succeeded by Alivardi Khan of the Afshar Dynasty in 1740.
During the reign of her cousin Anna ( 1730 – 1740 ), Elizabeth was gathering support in the background ; but after the death of Empress Anna, the regency of Anna Leopoldovna with infant Ivan VI was marked by high taxes and economic problems.
Importations of mahogany into England ( and excluding those to Scotland, which were recorded separately ) reached 525 tons per annum by 1740, 3, 688 tons by 1750, and more than 30, 000 tons in 1788, the peak year of the 18th century trade.

1740 and Galuppi
In 1740, Galuppi was appointed director of music at the Ospedale dei Mendicanti in Venice, where his duties ranged from teaching and conducting to composing liturgical music and oratorios.

Didone and abbandonata
* Didone abbandonata ( 18 January 1823, Teatro Regio, Turin )
* R 1. 88 Didone abbandonata ( 4. 11. 1794 Naples, Teatro di S Carlo )
* 1724: Didone abbandonata by Domenico Sarro
* 1747: Didone abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli
* 1762: Didone abbandonata by Giuseppe Sarti
* 1770: Didone abbandonata by Niccolò Piccinni
* 1823: Didone abbandonata by Saverio Mercadante
Under her influence he wrote in rapid succession Didone abbandonata, Catone in Utica, Ezio, Alessandro nell ' Indie, Semiramide riconosciuta, Siroe and Artaserse.
* Didone abbandonata ( 1724 )
* Didone abbandonata ( 1726 )
The marriage of princess Maria Josepha of Saxony to the French Dauphin gave Hasse the opportunity to journey to Paris in the summer of 1750, where his Didone abbandonata was performed.
He must have left Venice at the very end of 1746 or at the beginning of the following year, because on 28 January 1747 Jommelli was staging at the Argentina theatre in Rome his first version of the " Didone abbandonata ", and in May at San Carlo theatre in Naples a second version of " Eumene ".
* Didone abbandonata ( Rome, 1847 ) – libretto by Metastasio
* Didone abbandonata ( Stuttgart, 1763 )
Among the opera recordings on CD or DVD are Il caffè di campagna ( 2011 ), La clemenza di Tito ( 2010 ), La diavolessa ( 2004 ), Didone abbandonata ( 2007 ), Il filosofo di campagna ( 1959 and 2001 ), Gusto primo, re di Svezia ( 2005 ), Il mondo alla roversa ( 2007 ), and L ' Olimpiade ( 2009 ).
Under her wing, Metastasio produced libretto after libretto, and they were rapidly set by the greatest composers in Italy and Austria, establishing the transnational tone of opera seria: Didone abbandonata, Catone in Utica, Ezio, Alessandro nell ' Indie, Semiramide riconosciuta, Siroe and Artaserse.
Vinci's settings of Didone abbandonata and Artaserse were much praised for their stromento recitative, and he played a crucial part in establishing the new style of melody.
1792 saw Storace produce the boldest of his operatic projects, Dido, Queen of Carthage, with a libretto by Prince Hoare after Metastasio's Didone abbandonata.
Indeed, it ranks with Demofoonte and Didone abbandonata, dramas excelled in popularity only by Artaserse and Alessandro nell ' Indie.

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