* George Clinton ( vice president ) ( 1739 – 1812 ), Vice President of the United States and Governor of New York

* April 20 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod ( d. 1739 )

* George Clinton ( vice president ) ( 1739 – 1812 ), first and third Governor of New York, fourth Vice President of the United States

* George Mathews, ( 1739 – 1812 ), born in Augusta County, later United States Congressman and Governor of Georgia.

George Mathews ( 1739 – 1812 )-Revolutionary hero and twice Governor

Stewart was born in 1739, son of Alexander Stewart alderman of Londonderry in 1760 and the nephew of Robert Cowan, the wealthy Governor of Bombay

Two examples are the Battle of Palkhed in 1728 when he outmaneuvered the Mughal Governor of the Deccan province, and again in the battle against the Mughal Emperor, Muhammad Shah at Delhi during 1739.

** Governor George Clinton 1739 – 1812-Clerk Ulster County 1759, NY Assembly 1760, Continental Congress 1775, Brigadier General Continental Army 1776, Governor & Lt.

* George Mathews ( Georgia ) ( 1739 – 1812 ), Governor of Georgia

A 1739 South Carolina Provincial Council statute required a license from the Crown or Governor for a private party to purchase lands from Indians.

* Stephen Law ( d c. 1788 ), Governor of Bombay from 1739 – 42, lived in Goudhurst at the time of his death.

He served as a Governor of London's Foundling Hospital at the time of its foundation in 1739.

In 1739, he served in Governor Bienville's abortive expedition against the Chickasaw nation.

Robert Byng served as Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Plymouth from 1728 to 1739 and as Governor of Barbados from May 1739.

In 1739, he became a founding Governor of London's Foundling Hospital.

He was born and died in New York City, the nephew of New York Governor George Clinton ( 1739 – 1812 ), a brother of De Witt Clinton, and son of James Clinton.

Little was known about the activity of the fort from the time it was built until two centuries later in 1739 when the King of Spain, Philip II desired information regarding the island of Cebu, Governor General Tanon, who was the Spanish ruler of the Islands at the time made the following reports:

Among other achievements, Villiers was a founding Governor of the Foundling Hospital, a charity which received its royal charter on 17 October 1739 to operate an orphanage for abandoned children in London.

Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach ( 1658 – 1739 ) was Governor General of Swedish Estonia from 1704 to 1706.

The idea of a feudal state or period, in the sense of either a regime or a period dominated by lords who possess financial or social power and prestige, became widely held in middle of the 18th century, thanks to works such as Montesquieu's De L ' Esprit des Lois ( 1748 ; published in English as The Spirit of the Laws ), and Henri de Boulainvilliers ’ s Histoire des anciens Parlements de France ( 1737 ; published in English as An Historical Account of the Antient Parliaments of France or States-General of the Kingdom, 1739 ).

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

* 1684 – Françoise Charlotte d ' Aubigné, French wife of Adrien Maurice de Noailles ( d. 1739 )

* November 14 – François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, French general ( b. 1739 )

* June 16 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France ( b. 1739 )

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Nearly two centuries after the establishment of the New Kingdom of Granada in the 16th century, whose governor was loosely dependent upon the Viceroy of Peru at Lima, and an audiencia at Santa Fé de Bogotá ( today capital of the republic of Colombia ), the slowness of communications between the two capitals led to the creation of an independent Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 ( and its reestablishment in 1739 after a short interruption ).

" The Italians were expelled from France in 1697 for satirizing King Louis XIV's second wife, Madame de Maintenon, but returned in 1716 ( after his death ), when Tommaso Antonio Vicentini (" Thomassin ", 1682 – 1739 ) became famous in the part.

* May 5 – Françoise Charlotte d ' Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon and ancestress of the Heir to the Belgian throne ( d. 1739 )

Even in October 1739 Vernon had sent his first Lieutenant Percival along with two Spanish Fraternity on the ship, with the excuse to deliver a letter to Blas de Lezo and another who at that time was the governor of Cartagena, Don Pedro Hidalgo.

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours ( December 14, 1739 – August 7, 1817 ) was a French writer, economist, and government official.

Pierre du Pont was born December 14, 1739, the son of Samuel Dupont and Anne Alexandrine de Montchanin.

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.

In 1739, at the age of twenty, he accepted an offer to go to Lisbon as an assistant to Théodore Chevignard de Chavigny who was mutually referred to as his " uncle ", but was in fact a more distant relative.

Either in quest of paradox, or unable to recognize the real tendencies of Alexander Pope's Essay on Man, he defended it against the Examen of Jean Pierre de Crousaz, in a series of articles ( 1738 – 1739 ) contributed to The Works of the Learned.

The Digesting Duck by Jacques de Vaucanson, hailed in 1739 as the first automaton capable of digestion

In 1739, Saint-Lambert joined the Heudicourt regiment in the Lorraine Guards, in which his boyhood friend, Charles-Just, prince de Beauvau-Craon, was already a colonel, despite being only 19 years old.

* February 11-Jean-François de La Harpe, dramatist and critic ( born 1739 )

# Bishop François-Louis de Pourroy de Lauberivière ( 1739 – 1740 )

Miranda, who had bought himself a commission as a Captain of the Spanish Army around 1771 ( something not unusual in the European armies at the time ), became interested in the American Revolutionary War, while serving as Captain of the Aragon Regiment and aide-de-camp to General Juan Manuel de Cajigal y Monserrat, ( 1739 – 1811 ).

One of the most prominent examples of a family dynasty of cunning people was the Harries family from Cwrt y Cadno in Wales ; Henry Harries ( 1739 – 1805 ) was a yeoman farmer who had an interest in astrology and medicine but did not practice as a cunning man, whilst his son, John ( 1785 – 1839 ), and two grandsons Henry and John instead became professionals in the field.

His two famous works, Teatro crítico universal ( 1726 – 1739 ) and Cartas eruditas y curiosas ( 1742-1760 ), are multi-volume collections of essays that cover a range of subjects, from natural history and the then known sciences, education, history, religion, literature, philology, philosophy and medicine, down to superstitions, wonders and salient points of contemporary journalistic interest.

* L ' Italie il y a cent ans, ou Lettres écrites d ' Italie à quelques amis en 1739 et 1740 ( 1836 ).

It was partially translated into English in 1739 ( An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects ); an abridgment of the original ( Las Vidas de los pintores y estatuarios españoles ) was published in London in 1742, and afterwards appeared in a French translation in 1749.