After attending the famous school of St. Afra in Meissen, he entered Leipzig University in 1734 as a student of theology, and on completing his studies in 1739 was a private tutor for two years.

In July 1737, Austria entered the war against Ottoman Empire, but was defeated a number of times, among others in the Battle of Banja Luka on August 4, 1737 ; Battle of Grocka at 18, 21 – 22, July 1739 and lost Belgrade after an Ottoman siege from July 18 September 1739.

Mariot Arbuthnot entered the Royal Navy in the late 1720s, became a lieutenant in 1739, and commander in 1746.

In 1739, Ponsonby entered the Irish House of Commons for Newtownards, becoming its speaker in 1756.

After 1739 he studied, chiefly classics and history at the gymnasium at Stettin, and in 1742 entered the university of Halle as a student of jurisprudence, becoming in due course a doctor of laws in 1745.

He entered the position during a troubled period of Yale's history ; by the time of his resignation, for reasons of health in 1739, he left the college firmly established.

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

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 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 ).

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

Shortly after Professor Laughton published his " Jenkins's Ear " research in the English Historical Review, a Royal Navy colleague wrote, on 26 October 1889, to inform the historian: " I have a curious book connected with the subject, published in London in 1739, entitled England's Triumph: or a complete History of the many signals victories gained by the Royal Navy & Merchant Ships of Great Britain, for the term of 40 years past over the insulting & haught Spaniards by Captain Charles Jenkins, who has too severely felt the effects of Spanish tyranny.

* Robert Linzee ( 1739 – 1804 ), officer of the Royal Navy

Born at Aix-en-Provence, France in 1739, and educated at a Jesuit school, d ' Entrecasteaux would have liked to join that order, but his father intervened and enlisted him in the French Navy in 1754.

* was a 50-gun fourth-rate launched in 1695, rebuilt in 1739, captured by the French in 1746, and recaptured by the Royal Navy in 1747 but not taken back into service.

By 1739 his reputation an accomplished ship builder got him the first of many commissions by the Royal Navy to build ships of the line.

While serving on the Mediterranean station he was made lieutenant in Dolphin, his promotion dating 15 February 1739.

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 ).

Made lieutenant in 1739, he participated in the 1741 expedition against Cartagena, serving on the frigate Norfolk, under his uncle and future admiral, Captain Thomas Graves.

He stayed loyal to the Swedish cause for six years, but began serving Russia in 1715, dying in Moscow in 1739.

His Mediterranean service continued until 1739 and was without much action.

Along with the Peacock Throne, he also carried off the Koh-i-Noor to Persia in 1739.

The community remained part of Boston until it was set off and incorporated in 1739, when it was named after Chelsea, a neighborhood in London.

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.

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.

An account in The Gentleman's Magazine for 7 April 1739 notes Turpin's brashness: " Turpin behaved in an undaunted manner ; as he mounted the ladder, feeling his right leg tremble, he spoke a few words to the topsman, then threw himself off, and expir'd in five minutes.

During the War of Jenkins ' Ear ( 1739 – 1748 ), the Battle of La Guaira took place off the coast of La Guaira.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

James Anderson FRSE FSA ( Scot ) ( 1739, Long Hermiston, Midlothian – 15 October 1808, West Ham, Essex ) was a Scottish agriculturist, journalist and economist.

The slaves came from many diverse cultures in Africa, and the one major rebellion was the Stono rebellion in 1739.

It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739 – 40.

* 1739 – Agostino Accorimboni, Italian composer ( d. 1818 )

He supported the formation of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm in 1739 by Linnaeus and five others, and was elected a member at the first meeting of this academy.

* 1739 – Dick Turpin, English highwayman ( b. 1705 )

In 1717, the Viceroyalty of New Granada was originally created, and then it was temporarily removed, to finally be reestablished in 1739.

The Qianlong Emperor in ceremonial armor on horseback, painted by Giuseppe Castiglione ( 1688 – 1766 ) | Giuseppe Castiglione, dated 1739 or 1758.

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.

Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature ( 1739 ), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic " science of man " that examined the psychological basis of human nature.

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 1739 and 1748, David Hume published A Treatise of Human Nature and An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the associations and causes of ideas with visual images, in some sense forerunners to the language of film.

* 1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.

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

* 1739 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect ( d. 1813 )

* 1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.

Benedict's successor, Clement XII ( elected 1730 ), named him legate of Ravenna, where he erected the Porta Alberoni ( 1739 ), a magnificent gateway that formerly provided access to the city's dockyards, and has since been moved to the entrance of the Teatro Rasi.

Sir Peter Warren began accumulating land in 1731 and built a frame house capacious enough to hold a sitting of the Assembly when smallpox rendered the city dangerous in 1739.

In 1739, Nader Shah, emperor of Iran, defeated the Mughal army at the huge Battle of Karnal.

* 1739 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general ( d. 1823 )

* 1739 – George Clinton, American politician, 4th Vice President of the United States ( d. 1812 )

* 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect ( d. 1808 )

From 1730 to 1739 he worked in England, in Pown House, Moor Park and in the Theatre of Covent Garden.

There it stayed until the invasion of Nader Shah of Khorasan in 1739 and the sacking of Agra and Delhi.

There is no reference to this name before 1739.