* 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.

* 1740 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal ( b. 1667 )

* 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.

* John Young ( naval officer ) ( c. 1740 – 1781 ), American sailor

* Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. ( 1740 – 1809 ), Aide-de-camp to General George Washington from 1781 to the end of the war ; Governor of Connecticut 1798-1809

Abner Nash ( August 8, 1740 – December 2, 1786 ) was the second Governor of the U. S. state of North Carolina between 1781 and 1782, and represented North Carolina in the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1786.

* Johann Gottfried Lessing ( 1693-1770 ) pastor primarus in Kamenz, well respected, published theologian, translator and father of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ( 1729 – 1781 ) and Karl Gotthelf Lessing ( 1740 – 1812 ).

Stephen Heard ( November 1, 1740 – November 15, 1815 ) was briefly the 12th Governor of Georgia ( a position later known as Governor ) from when he was appointed on February 18, 1780 until Nathan Brownson was elected the tenth Governor of Georgia in August 1781 ( Myrick Davies served as president of the council in 1781 and is listed by some as de facto chief executive for some period of time ).

Two ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Young, the first for John Young ( c. 1740 – 1781 ), a captain in the Continental Navy, and the second for Rear Admiral Lucien Young ( 1852 – 1912 ).

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

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 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 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.