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 ).

" 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.

In 1739, Peter's father died, and he became Duke of Holstein-Gottorp as Charles Peter Ulrich ().

After Richardson started the work on 10 November 1739, his wife and her friends became so interested in the story that he finished it on 10 January 1740.

With the abolition of Albemarle County in 1739, all of its constituent precincts became counties.

With the abolition of Bath County in 1739, all of its constituent precincts became counties.

In 1739 Bath County was abolished, and Hyde Precinct became Hyde County.

With the abolition of Bath County in 1739, all of its constituent precincts became counties.

With the abolition of Albemarle County in 1739, all of its constituent precincts became separate counties.

The area covered by the present-day township was set off to Morris County upon that county's creation in 1739, and became part of the newly formed Sussex County in 1753.

On March 15, 1739, it became part of the newly formed Morris County.

In 1736 a Reverend Schmidt preached occasionally to the Lutherans, and in 1739 Reverend John Justus Jacob Birkenstock became pastor of the Jordan Lutheran congregation.

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

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.

In 1739 he became house steward to MP John Lawton and accompanied him to London.

In 1739, what is now Chelsea, Revere, and Winthrop withdrew from Boston due to governmental control disputes and became the Town of Chelsea.

The caracal first became known to Western science from a German naturalist, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber ( 1739 – 1810 ), who illustrated and described a specimen from Table Mountain in Cape Town in 1776.

Duclos became a member of the Academy of Inscriptions in 1739 and of the Académie française in 1747, being appointed perpetual secretary.

In August 1703, de Lamerie became the apprentice to a London goldsmith of Huguenot origin, Pierre Platel ( 1659 – 1739 ).

In 1739 he became organist to the king.

Richard Toplady became a commissioned officer in the Royal Marines in 1739 ; by the time of his death, he had reached the rank of major.

As population shifted to Ponce, Adjuntas became more linked to that town, and then to Utuado, being a ward of this municipality in 1739.

The Comte de Buffon became the curator in 1739 and he expanded the gardens greatly, adding a maze, the Labyrinth, which remains today.

He received the Copley Medal in 1739 and also became a public figure as a result of his campaigns against the Gin trade and his involvement in the Georgia Trust.

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.

* 1739 – 1740, one of the most severe winters in the UK on record.

More than one year later, all diplomatic means having been exhausted, on 10 July 1739 King George II authorized the Admiralty Board to seek maritime reprisals against Spain.

The Treaty of Belgrade (, ) was the peace treaty signed on September 18, 1739 in Belgrade, Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia ( today Republic of Serbia ), by the Ottoman Empire on one side and the Habsburg Monarchy on the other.

The Treaty of Niš is a peace treaty signed on September 29, 1739 in Niš ( East Serbia ), by the Ottoman Empire on one side and Russian Empire on the other.

The town was incorporated in 1739, one year after settlement of the town center began.

Eleanor Charlotte Butler ( 11 May 1739 – 2 June 1829 ) was a member of one of the dynastic families of Ireland, the Butlers, the Earls ( and later Dukes ) of Ormond, who number amongst their ancestors Queen Anne Boleyn ( through her paternal grandmother Lady Margaret Butler ).

George Clinton ( July 26, 1739 April 20, 1812 ) was an American soldier and politician, considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

While he was away at war ( the War of Jenkins ' Ear, 1739 – 1743 ), Lawrence wrote to his father from Jamaica in May 1741, that, should he survive the war, he intended to make his home in the town of Fredericksburg, building a town home on one of the three lots he owned there.

In 1739, that tower would be torn down and a new one rebuilt in front of the church.

Despite this lack of permanence, French fur traders continued to ascend the Missouri River and interact with indigenous peoples ; one such duo, Paul and Pierre Mallet, journeyed from Missouri to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1739, although future expeditions to New Spain were stopped by Spanish officials.

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.

It is one of England's oldest children's charities, established by royal charter in 1739 as the Foundling Hospital.

Le Monnier was admitted on April 5, 1739 to the Royal Society, and was one of the 144 original members of the Institute.

In 1739 Lauder narrowly failed in his application to become one of the masters of the High School in Edinburgh, but in 1742 Lauder was appointed one of the doctors, or junior masters, at Dundee Grammar School, where he remained until the Jacobite Rebellion, whereupon he went to London.

An engraving in one edition of Bayes ' 1739 publication, of a man hiding in a cave, is sometimes supposed to be him, but the closest description that exists is that given by John Wheeler, of " a fresh coloured man, very much marked with the small pox, about five feet nine inches high ... wears a blue grey coat and a light coloured wig ".

Krigsvetenskapsakademin, founded in 1739 by King Frederick I, is one of the Royal Academies in Sweden.

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

On his return to England in 1739 he took his seat in the House of Lords as a follower of the Duke of Bedford, one of the wealthiest and most powerful politicians of the era.

In 1739, at the foundation of the Foundling Hospital, he was one of that charity's original governors.

In 1739, at the creation of London's Foundling Hospital, he acted as one of the charity's founding governors.

Indeed, conditions were so bad in the felons ' wing that nine prisoners suffocated in one night during 1739.

He supported the creation of London's Foundling Hospital and was one of its founding governors when it received its royal charter in 1739.