Obadiah joined his older brother James Brown II ( 1698 – 1739 ) in the mercantile trade in cocoa, rum, molasses and slaves.

In 1739, following the outbreak of war between Britain and Spain, he joined the provincial militia as a lieutenant, but apparently saw no action.

The Austrians joined in 1737 ; the war ended in 1739 with the Treaty of Belgrade ( with Austria ) and the Treaty of Niš ( with Russia ).

In 1739 he was joined in Ireland by his brother Philip ( 1702 – 1779 ).

In 1739, while visiting the town of Hainburg, Reutter auditioned the seven-year-old Joseph Haydn ; Haydn joined his ensemble the following year, later to be joined by his younger brother Michael.

He was named a cornet in the Russian cavalry regiment " Brunswick-Cuirassiers " when Anthony Ulrich became Russian generalissimo in 1739.

Colonel Henry Ludington ( 1739 – 1817 ) was the commander of the 7th Regiment of the Dutchess County Militia, a volunteer regiment of local men who fought in the Battle of Ridgefield in April, 1777, during the American Revolutionary War.

In 1739 the first full regiment, the 42nd Regiment of Foot, was formed in the region.

August Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Bevern ( 1715 in Braunschweig – 1781 in Stettin ), Prussian soldier, son of Ernest Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was born in Braunschweig in 1715, and entered the Prussian army in 1731, becoming colonel of an infantry regiment in 1739.

He entered service in 1706, became major in Beauce's regiment in Toul in 1728, later in 1739 lieutenant-colonel.

In 1739 he was collaborating with William Kent on designs for the New Houses of Parliament and between 1750-54 he made a great number of changes to Kent's designs for the Horse Guards.

Ancram was commissioned a cornet in 1735, was a captain in the 31st Regiment of Foot in 1739, and in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards from 1741.

He entered the Prussian Army in 1735 and, on account of his great stature, was transferred to the Guards in 1739.

The oldest consumer magazine still in print is The Scots Magazine, which was first published in 1739, though multiple changes in ownership and gaps in publication totaling over 90 years weaken that claim.

After he had taken deacon's orders, however, he concentrated on science, and, through the patronage of Jacques Cassini, obtained employment, first in surveying the coast from Nantes to Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French arc of the meridian, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge.

Following the period of peace, which had lasted since 1739, Russia began to assert its expansionistic desires again in 1768.

The one successful bill from the lobbying in the 1730s, which came into force on 29 September 1739, extended the provision prohibiting the import of foreign books to also prohibit the import of books that, while originally published in Britain, were being reprinted in foreign nations and then shipped to England and Wales.

She wrote several popular comedies, of which Das Testament is the best, and translated The Spectator ( 9 volumes, 1739 – 1743 ), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1744 ) and other English and French works.

The War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 48 ) – including King George's War in North America, the War of Jenkins ' Ear ( which actually began formally on 23 October 1739 ), and two of the three Silesian wars – involved most of the powers of Europe over the question of Maria Theresa's succession to the realms of the House of Habsburg.

The naval operations of this war were entangled with the War of Jenkins ' Ear, which broke out in 1739 in consequence of the long disputes between Britain and Spain over their conflicting claims in America.

War on Spain was declared by Great Britain on 23 October 1739, which has become known as the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

Shortly after this favourable result, France's mediation in the war between the Holy Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire led to the Treaty of Belgrade ( September 1739 ) which favoured the Ottoman Empire, beneficiary of a Franco-Ottoman alliance against the Habsburgs since the early 16th century.

In several successful raids led by Marshal Munich, the Russians broke the resistance of the Crimean Khanate, crossed the Dniester into Moldavia and in 1739 marched as far as the Moldavian capital of Iaşi ( Jassy ), which they captured.

This house, which would be Richardson's residence from 1739 to 1754, was later named " The Grange " in 1836.

On March 15, 1739, Morris County ( which at the time included what would later become Sussex County and Warren County ) was separated from Hunterdon County.

Both entitled Red Mannheim, Alexander's large red silkscreens are inspired by the Mannheim Cathedral altarpiece ( 1739 – 41 ), which was damaged by bombing in the Second World War.

A borough charter was granted in 1739 by King George II, which changed the name of the settlement from Willington, after Thomas Willing the first developer of the land who organized the area in a grid pattern similar to that of its northern neighbor Philadelphia, to Wilmington, presumably after Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington.

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.

) It originally included the lands of Mattapoisett, Marion and parts of Wareham ( which was lost when Wareham was founded in 1739 ).

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.

It, along with West Nantmeal Township, was originally part of a single Nantmeal Township, which was divided in 1739.

It and East Nantmeal Township were originally part of a single Nantmeal Township, which was divided in 1739.

The work opened at the King's Theatre in January 1739 to a warm reception, and was quickly followed by the less successful oratorio Israel in Egypt ( which may also have come from Jennens ).

Humphrey Smith directed the construction, with Grundy acting as engineer, which was completed in 1739, according to a plaque fixed to it at the time.

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.

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.

Laughton subsequently examined the 1739 publication and, in writing Robert Jenkins entry for the Dictionary of National Biography he dismissed it as, " a catch-penny chapbook, in which no reference is made to Jenkins's case, except in a worthless frontispiece ".

His daughter ( died 1739 ) was married firstly to a German colonel Strasburgh, and then from 1699 or 1700 to his friend in Russian service General Alexander Gordon, author of " The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia " book.

Topham Beauclerk ( pronounced ' Bo-Clare ') ( 22 December 1739 – 11 March 1780 ) was a celebrated wit and the only son of Lord Sidney Beauclerk ; he was the great-grandson of King Charles II and a friend of Dr. Johnson and of Horace Walpole.

In 1739 the king gave it to crown prince Frederick II of Prussia, who often sold stallions to make money.

Charles-François Lebrun, 1st Duke of Plaisance, prince of the Empire ( 19 March 1739 – 16 June 1824 ) was a French statesman.