The Watch was brought into the British regimental system on 25 October 1739 on the orders of George II after much discussion over many years with the military hierarchy who admired Highlanders for their fighting prowess but were still suspicious of their loyalty.

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 ".

For much of the 18th century ( 1739 – 1788 ), the garden was under the direction of Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, one of the leading naturalists of the Enlightenment, bringing international fame and prestige to the establishment.

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

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 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.

One source says that the township was named after the university in England, and was formed in either 1753 or 1755, but another source claims that the township was named after an early settler named John Axford, who came to settle in the area with others between 1735 and 1739, and affirms that the township's creation was in 1755.

From 1736 to 1739, the area was under the authority of Hempfield Township in Lancaster County east of the Susquehanna.

The modern history of Cherry Valley begins with John Lindesay receiving a land grant from George II of England ; he moved there in 1739, and seven Anglo-Scottish families from New Hampshire moved into the area the following year.

* Dick Turpin ( 1705 – 1739 ), notorious highwayman, was familiar with Epping Forest ( his butcher's shop was in Buckhurst Hill ) and carried out many documented robberies in the area during the 1730s, sometimes escaping and hiding in the forest in Turpin's Cave

Restrictions imposed by the 1739 Treaty of Niš over Russian access to the Azov Sea and fortifying the area were removed.

Through the history, the region of Mačva has been a part of: the Roman Empire ( 1st-4th century ), the Byzantine Empire ( 4th-5th century ; 5th-7th century ; 11th-12th century ), the Hun Empire ( 5th century ), Avar Khaganate ( 7th century ), the Slavic-controlled territories ( 7th-9th century ), the Bulgarian Empire ( 9th-11th century ), the Kingdom of Hungary ( 12th-13th century ; 14th century ; 15th century ; 16th century ), the State of Serb king Stefan Dragutin ( 13th-14th century ), the Serbian Empire ( 14th century ), the State of Nikola Altomanović ( 14th century ), the Moravian Serbia ( 14th century ), the Serbian Despotate ( 15th century ), the Ottoman Empire ( 15th century ; 16th-18th century ; 18th-19th century ), the Habsburg Monarchy ( 1718 – 1739 ), the Karađorđe's Serbia ( 1804 – 1813 ), the vassal Principality of Serbia ( 1815 – 1878 ), the independent Principality of Serbia ( 1878 – 1882 ), the Kingdom of Serbia ( 1882 – 1918 ), the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ( 1918 – 1929 ), the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ( 1929 – 1941 ), the area governed by the Military Administration in Serbia ( 1941-1944 ), the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( 1944 – 1992 ), the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( 1992 – 2003 ), and the Serbia and Montenegro ( 2003 – 2006 ).

No settlement in the area was known to the Austrians when they occupied Serbia from 1717 to 1739.

According to James Campisi, the anthropologist hired by the Lumbee tribe, this area " is located in the heart of the so-called old field of the Cheraw documented in land records between 1737 and 1739.

Like the Portobello area of London, Dublin's Portobello was ultimately named for the capture by Admiral Vernon in 1739 of Portobelo, Colón on Panama's Caribbean Coast, during the conflict between the United Kingdom and Spain known as the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

Established by Royal charter in 1739 by Thomas Coram as a refuge for abandoned children, the Foundling Hospital was the sole institution responsible for taking in illegitimate children in the London area for a period of well over 120 years.

After the invasion of the marathas in this area in the year 1739, the entire area was pillaged and burnt.

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.

) 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 ".

The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin ( 1739 – 1811 ), in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture ( see, for example, the triumphal Arch of Titus ).

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

There is no reference to this name before 1739.

* 1739 – The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736 – 1739.

* 1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.

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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.

* French general Charles-François Dumouriez ( 1739 – 1823 ) is buried at St. Mary the Virgin parish church.

Cruden recorded his experience in The London Citizen Grievously Injured ( 1739 ) and Smart's stay there is recorded by his daughter.

* 1739: Sharon is incorporated.

It is not know how successful the new magazine was, or why Heinsius included it in his publishing program since from 1739 he already had a similar monthly magazine under the title of " Genealogical and historical messages of the principal events of the European courts ".

This is why we have two versions of Castor et Pollux ( 1737 and 1754 ) and three of Dardanus ( 1739, 1744, and 1760 ).

The Travancore-Dutch War ( 1739 – 1753 ) is the earliest example of an Asian state overcoming a European power in war.

Oltenia (, also called Lesser Wallachia in antiquated versions, with the alternate Latin names Wallachia Minor, Wallachia Alutana, Wallachia Caesarea between 1718 and 1739 ) is a historical province and geographical region of Romania, in western Wallachia.

Taylor is best known for his editions of some of the Greek orators, chiefly valuable for the notes on Attic law, e. g. Lysias ( 1739 ); Demosthenes Contra Leptinem ( 1741 ) and Contra Midiam ( 1743, with Lycurgus Contra Leocratem ), intended as specimens of a proposed edition, in five volumes, of the orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus and Demades, of which only vols.

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

' The identity ascribed to man is nothing more than a fiction ' ( Hume, 1739 )

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

Bayes ' document contains elements of conjecture ; for instance, his claim that Turpin was married to a Miss Palmer ( and not Elizabeth Millington ) is almost certainly incorrect, and the date of Turpin's marriage, for which no documentary evidence has been found, appears to be based solely on Bayes ' claim that in 1739 Turpin had married 11 or 12 years earlier.