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.

* A sermon preached before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1739

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

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.

* ‘ A Catalogue of English Printers, from the year 1471 to 1600, most of them at London, ( without date or place ), 4 pp. ; the copy in the Society of Antiquaries Library is inscribed, ‘ Presented by Mr. Ames, 20 March 1739 – 40 .’

The letter was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1739.

In 1739 Wesley broke with the Moravians and founded the Methodist Society of England.

The number of Fellows had increased from 110 to approximately 300 by 1739, the reputation of the Society had increased under the Presidency of Sir Isaac Newton from 1703 until his death in 1727, and editions of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society were appearing regularly.

The Paris Foreign Missions Society in 1739 with its park ( detail of 1739 map of Paris by Michel-Étienne Turgot | Turgot ).

From 1729 to 1739 he participated in a series of dinners called " Le Caveau " ( named after the cabaret where they were held ) with other artists, including Alexis Piron, Charles Collé, and Charles Duclos.

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 ".

Because of the Austro-Turkish war ( 1736 – 1739 ) and pestilence, number of inhabitants decreased and in 1740 the population of the settlement numbered 18 houses.

In 1738 and 1739 smallpox epidemics broke out among the Cherokee, who had no natural immunity.

The first living camellias seen in England were a single red and a single white, grown and flowered in his garden at Thorndon Hall, Essex, by Robert James, Lord Petre, among the keenest gardeners of his generation, in 1739.

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.

Nearly two centuries after the establishment of the New Kingdom of Granada in the 16th century, whose governor was loosely dependent upon the Viceroy of Peru at Lima, and an audiencia at Santa Fé de Bogotá ( today capital of the republic of Colombia ), the slowness of communications between the two capitals led to the creation of an independent Viceroyalty of New Granada in 1717 ( and its reestablishment in 1739 after a short interruption ).

On 14 August, Britain recalled its ambassador to Spain and officially declared war on 23 October 1739.

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.

Spain suspended payments on its debt in 1739 — effectively declaring bankruptcy.

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.

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.

With Walpole, he served as a founding governor of the popular charity the Foundling Hospital when it opened its doors in 1739.

The transactions of the Academy ( Vetenskapsakademiens handlingar ) were published as its main series between 1739 and 1974.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded in Stockholm 1739, and its founders ( some of which were members in Uppsala ) specifically wanted an academy which was different from the Uppsala academy.

In 18th century the village, at that time belonging to the Catholic Church, grew to become a market town and its name was changed to Starpol or Staropole, after a new village built for Prienai starost's guards in the vicinity in 1739.

The large 11th-century church is up the hill ; the tower at its eastern end was destroyed by an earth tremor in 1739 and restored in 1750.

The city was heavily damaged during the Habsburg takeover of Oltenia between 1718 and 1739, and its purpose was again reduced to that of a fortress.

He was then elected a governor of the Foundling Hospital prior to its foundation in 1739.

In 1739, Glover published a poem entitled London, or the Progress of Commerce ; and in 1740 he published a ballad, Admiral Hosier's Ghost, popular in its day.

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

This settlement changed its name in 1739 to Orsk.

During the occupation of Serbia by the Austrians ( between 1717 and 1739 ), it was converted into a Roman Catholic church ; but after the Ottomans retook Belgrade, it was returned to its original function.

The Duke was one of several founding governors of Britain's first institution for abandoned children, the Foundling Hospital, and his name is listed in its royal charter received from George II in October 1739.

It was originally published in January 1739 its first edition being dated Monday 9 February 1739 and publication continued until 1826 ; at which point sales had declined to such a point that it was withdrawn.