He entered Jesus College, Oxford, in 1736, where he took his degrees in arts ( BA 1739, MA 1743 ), while also devoting himself to mathematical studies, before concentrating on medical studies ( MB 1746, MD 1753 ).

Beginning with The Governess ( 1739, in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa ), Chardin shifted his attention from working-class subjects to slightly more spacious scenes of bourgeoise life.

Alexander Gordon ( 1739 – 1792 ), third son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Lord of Session from 1788 to 1792 under the judicial title of Lord Rockville.

In Summer 1739 he left with Lord Baltimore from Sheerness to Newcastle upon Tyne.

In 1739 Pierre Antoine and Paul Mallet reached Santa Fe from the Mississippi.

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.

Together with Austria, Russia, under Catherine I, engaged in a war against the Ottoman Empire from 1735 until 1739.

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.

" 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.

Slow to learn the limits of Sweden's diminished strength, a party of nobles, who called themselves the " Hats ", dreamed of revenge on Russia and ruled the country from 1739 to 1765 ; they engaged in wars in 1741, 1757, 1788, and 1809, with more or less disastrous results as Russian influence grew after every Swedish defeat.

The Mingshi — the official history of the Ming Dynasty compiled later by the Qing Dynasty in 1739 — states that the Ming established itinerant commanderies overseeing Tibetan administration while also renewing titles of ex-Yuan Dynasty officials from Tibet and conferring new princely titles on leaders of Tibet's Buddhist sects.

* Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf ( 1739 – 1799 ) was Kapellmeister to the Prince-Bishop of Breslau from 1770 to 1795.

The War of Jenkins ' Ear was a conflict between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742.

His Ode on the Taking of Khotin from the Turks, composed in 1739, attracted a great deal of attention in Saint Petersburg.

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

However, in September 1739 he was expelled from the university for poor attendance, having " hardly attended Natural Science more than once or twice "

Its first known usage in English dates from 1739 in The Gardeners Dictionary Vol.

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.

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.

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.

Like the Quakers, the Brethren refused to take part in the war with the Spanish and, as a result, they were evicted from Georgia in 1739.

She was rebuilt in 1718 and served in the war against Spain from 1739, mainly in the West Indies.

Entrance to the abbey is through a large inner court in the centre of which stands a Baroque Holy Trinity Column, designed by Giovanni Giuliani and completed in 1739.

After years of struggle, Richard Newton's statues were accepted on 3 November 1739, and the charter incorporating ' the Principal and Fellows of Hertford College ' ( Principalis et Socii Collegii Hertfordiensis ) was received on 8 September 1740.

From 15 March 1733 to 13 November 1739, Toup was battellar of Exeter College, Oxford, where John Upton was his tutor.

His abode is listed as " Chelsea College " on the 1739 Royal Charter for the Foundling Hospital, a charity for which he was a founding governor.

He graduated from Yale College in 1731, and settled in New York City, where he engaged in the shipping business with William Alexander, Lord Stirling whose sister Mary Alexander he married on November 3, 1739.

At the end of 1724 he was sent to St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a fellowship, around 1730, became master of arts in 1732, and took the degree of MD in 1739.

Elisha Williams ( August 24, 1694 – July 24, 1755 ) was a Congregational minister, legislator, jurist, and rector of Yale College from 1726 to 1739.

He was the fifth son of John Walmesley of Westwood House, Wigan, Lancashire ; was educated at the English Benedictine College of St. Gregory at Douai ( now Downside School, near Bath ); and made his profession as a Benedictine monk at the English Monastery of St. Edmund, Paris, in 1739.

During 18th century many European kings followed and founded their own academy of sciences: in 1714 in Bologna, in 1724 the Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1731 the Royal Dublin Society, in 1735 in Tuscany, in 1739 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, in 1742 the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, in 1751 the Gottingen Academy of Sciences, in 1754 in Erfurt, in 1759 the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in 1763 the Academia Theodoro-Palatina in Heidelberg, in 1779 the Sciences Academy of Lisbon, in 1783 the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in 1782 the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, in 1784 in Turin.

Robert Stewart was born in Henry Street, Dublin, Ireland, in 1769 the son of Robert Stewart ( 1739 – 1821 ) of Newtownards and Comber in County Down, with properties in Counties Donegal and Londonderry.

The site received international attention when Dublin artist Susanna Drury made watercolour paintings of it in 1739 ; they won Drury the first award presented by the Royal Dublin Society in 1740 and were engraved in 1743.

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.

There is tentative evidence that there was another assistant, P. Domenico Dal Mela, who went on in 1739 to build the first upright piano.

The following year he went on half-pay and did not go to sea again until 1739 and the outbreak of the War of Jenkins Ear.

In 1739 she left her husband and went abroad, and although they continued to write to each other in affectionate and respectful terms, they never met again.

After a period of relative peace, during which the bishopric was subsidized by the domn to open a school in Greek and another in Slavonic, in 1739, during a Russo-Turkish War, Russian troops as well as Frilow's Cossacks ravaged through Buzău, taking the bishop with them as they went.

He transferred to the 50-gun under Captain Charles Knowles in the West Indies between 1737 and 1738, and went on to serve aboard the 54-gun under Captain Henry Medley in 1739, and the 14-gun sloop under Captain Frogmere in 1740.

He went to Dresden in Saxony in 1739, where he studied with Mengs and Dietrich, and created portraits and scenes for the Royal Opera, and mural paintings in Schloss Hubertusburg ( 1749 ).

His most important work was Troens rare klenodie ( 1739 ; " The Rare Jewel of the Faith "), which contained many translations of German Pietist hymns and 82 original pieces and went though seven editions in Brorson's lifetime.

He was born in Liverpool, England, and went to America in 1739, four years after his younger brother, Reverend Richard Peters.

Jat tribesmen from Mahawan attacked Faujdar Hakim Kajim at Firozabad where they killed him on 9 May 1739, then went on to rule Firozabad for 30 years.