* 1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

* 1739 – War of Jenkins ' Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.

Owing to public pressure, the British government was pushed towards declaring war with Spain in 1739.

One of the first actions was the British capture, on 22 November 1739, of Porto Bello, a silver-exporting town on the coast of Panama in an attempt to damage Spain's finances and weaken its naval capabilities.

The War of Jenkins ' Ear ( named for a 1731 incident in which a Spanish commander chopped off the ear of English merchant captain Robert Jenkins and told him to take it to his king, George II ) broke out in 1739 between Spain and Great Britain, but was confined to the Caribbean Sea and conflict between Spanish Florida and the neighboring British Province of Georgia.

In a particularly famous test on a BBC Radio 3 programme in 1977, the violinists Isaac Stern and Pinchas Zukerman and the violin expert and dealer Charles Beare tried to distinguish between the " Chaconne " Stradivarius, a 1739 Guarneri del Gesú, an 1846 Vuillaume, and a 1976 British violin played behind a screen by a professional soloist.

1730s-40s ) was a British master mariner, famous as the protagonist of the " Jenkins's ear " incident, which became a contributory cause of the War of Jenkins ' Ear between Britain and Spain in 1739.

The Watch was brought into the British regimental system on 25 October 1739 on the orders of George II after much discussion over many years with the military hierarchy who admired Highlanders for their fighting prowess but were still suspicious of their loyalty.

Alexander Henry ' The Elder ' ( August 1739 – 4 April 1824 ) was one of the leading pioneers of the British-Canadian fur trade following the British Conquest of New France ; a partner in the North West Company, and a founding member and vice-chairman of the Beaver Club.

After the death of his mother in 1739, his father emigrated to the British colonies in America with Charles and two or three brothers.

He tried to negotiate a solution to the crisis with the Convention of Pardo, which agreed a sum of compensation to be paid to British merchants but British public opinion had shifted and Walpole felt that there was no option but to declare war in December 1739.

* Francis Hutchinson ( 1660 – 1739 ), British clergyman

* John Hope ( writer ) ( 1739 – 1785 ), British politician and writer

On April 5, 1802, Alexander married Janetta Waddel, the daughter of a Presbyterian preacher, James Waddel ( 1739 – 1805 ), whose eloquence was described in William Wirt's Letters of a British Spy ( 1803 ).

The British fortified the naval base of Bombay after they saw the Marathas defeat the Portuguese at neighbouring Vasai in May 1739.

The envoys were successful, and a treaty was signed on 12 July 1739 that gave the British East India Company rights to free trade in Maratha territory.

Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, 5th Earl of Berkshire, KG, PC ( 16 May 1739 – 7 March 1779 ) was a British politician, styled Viscount Andover from 1756 to 1757.

* Battle of Porto Bello, a 1739 British naval victory in Panama

* Sir John Rogers, 3rd Baronet ( 1708 – 1773 ), British MP for Plymouth 1739 – 1740

Following the British disaster in the Blockade of Porto Bello under Admiral Hosier in 1726, the port was attacked on November 21, 1739, and captured by a British fleet of six ships, commanded by Admiral Edward Vernon during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

" When Jenkins reported the incident to British authorities, they used it as a catalyst to declare war on Spain in 1739.

Accompong was founded in 1739 after the Maroons signed a peace treaty with the British at nearby " Peace Cave ".

On 21 November 1739 Admiral Vernon did however succeed in capturing the ill-defended Spanish harbour of Porto Bello in present-day Panama.

He succeeded in defeating the Dutch East India Company during the Travancore-Dutch War ( 1739 – 1753 ), the most decisive engagement of which was the Battle of Colachel ( 10 August 1741 ) in which the Dutch Admiral Eustachius De Lannoy was captured.

The Gentleman's Magazine reported that on 20 July 1739 Vice Admiral Edward Vernon and a squadron of warships departed England for the West Indies, and that on 21 July, " Notice was given by the Lords of the Admiralty, that in pursuance of his Majesty's Commission under the Great Seal, Letters of Marque or General Reprisals against the Ships, Goods and Subjects of the King of Spain, were ready to be issued.

Some coins issued between 1729 and 1739 carry the mark EIC under the king's head, to indicate the gold was provided by the East India Company, while some 1745 coins carry the mark LIMA to indicate the gold came from Admiral George Anson's round-the-world voyage.

Some coins issued between 1729 and 1739 carry the mark EIC under the king's head, to indicate the gold was provided by the East India Company, while some 1745 coins carry the mark LIMA to indicate the gold came from Admiral Anson's round-the-world voyage.

In 1739, Glover published a poem entitled London, or the Progress of Commerce ; and in 1740 he published a ballad, Admiral Hosier's Ghost, popular in its day.

In 1742 a cottage was built on what is now the High Street ( close to the junction with what is now Brighton Place ) by a seaman who had served under Admiral Edward Vernon during the 1739 capture of Porto Bello, Panama, meaning literally " beautiful port or harbour ", and who named the cottage Portobello Hut in honour of that victory.

Like the Portobello area of London, Dublin's Portobello was ultimately named for the capture by Admiral Vernon in 1739 of Portobelo, Colón on Panama's Caribbean Coast, during the conflict between the United Kingdom and Spain known as the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

**** HRH Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany ( 1739 – 1767 )

After arriving at the island of Antigua in early October 1739, Edward Vernon sent three ships under the command of Captain Thomas Waterhouse to intercept Spanish merchant ships that made the route between La Guaira and Portobelo.

The staircases of the interior façade are decorated with cartouches similar to those found in First Quad, and likewise bear the arms of important figures in the College's history ; ( 13 ) Sir Walter Raleigh who was an undergraduate from 1572 to 1574, ( 14 ) John Keble who was a Fellow between 1811 and 1835 ), ( archway ) Edward Hawkins who was Provost from 1828 until 1882 and ( 15 ) Gilbert White who was an undergraduate from 1739 until 1743 and a Fellow from 1744 until 1793.

* 1739 – 1755 H. M. Edward I

Frescati House, built in 1739, was a fine example and was at one time the childhood home of Lord Edward FitzGerald.

* Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany ( 1739 – 1767 ), second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, died without issue

He completed a continuous history of England by writing the History of England during the Reigns of William and Mary, Anne and George I ( 1735 ); and the History of England during the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary and Elizabeth ( 1739 ).

* Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany ( 1739 – 1767 ), younger brother of King George III

Prince Edward, Duke of York ( Edward Augustus ; 25 March 1739 – 17 September 1767 ), was the younger brother of George III of the United Kingdom, the second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.

* 25 March 1739 – 1 April 1760: His Royal Highness Prince Edward

* 1739 – 1755 H. M. Edward I, King of the Miskito Nation

* Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany ( 1739 – 1767 )

* Edward Yardley, Menevia Sacra, (? between 1739 – 1761 ), edited by Francis Green 1927

* John Rutledge ( 1739 – 1800 ), U. S. politician and Supreme Court justice, signer of the Constitution ; brother of Edward Rutledge