A succession crisis emerged in Kandy, upon king Vira Narendrasinha's death 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.

The investiture took place in 1739 at Warsaw by authority of the Polish king and senate.

The obverse has a left-facing bust of the king ( with an " intermediate head " in 1739 and 1740, and an older head from 1748 ), with the legend ( in 1739 and 1740 ), while the reverse features a single large crowned shield with the quarters containing the arms of England + Scotland, France, Hanover, and Ireland, and the legend -- King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.

The obverse has a left-facing bust of the king with the legend ( between 1739 and 1743 ), while the reverse features a single large crowned shield with the quarters containing the arms of England + Scotland, France, Hanover, and Ireland, and the legend (" King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Lueneburg, Arch-Treasurer and Elector ").

In 1739, the Queen wanted Taube and her two sons expelled from the country ; and they left for Hesse, but Taube stayed behind in Nyköping, where the king met her, claiming to go hunting, and she never left the country.

In 1739 he became organist to the king.

Mwami Mutaga III Senyamwiza Mutamo was the king of Burundi from 1739 to 1767.

In 1764 he was released, due in part to the intercession of Friedrich the Great of Prussia ( son of the king who had hounded Moser in 1739 ).

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 ).

When he granted them permission, the island was colonized ( 1739 ); the name Carloforte ( Charles the Strong, but also the Fort of Carlo ) was given to the town they established there, in honour of the king.

Mwami Mwezi III Ndagushimiye was the king of Burundi from 1709 to 1739.

Mačva: Through the history, the region of Mačva ( whose northern part is within present-day Vojvodina ) 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 ), 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 Nedić's 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 ).

Treaty of Belgrade gave the city back to the Ottoman Empire in 1739.

The envoys were successful, and a treaty was signed on 12 July 1739 that gave the British East India Company rights to free trade in Maratha territory.

In the cold winter of 1739 – 1740, Anna Ivanovna gave an order to build a palace made of ice in St. Petersburg.

He was one of six who founded the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1739, and when Gustavus III in 1786 established the Swedish Academy, he gave Höpken the first place in it.

As privy finance minister, Count Karl von Zinzendorf ( 1739 – 1813 ) introduced a uniform system of accounting for state revenues, expenditures, and debts of the territories of the Austrian crown.

In 1739, Saint-Lambert joined the Heudicourt regiment in the Lorraine Guards, in which his boyhood friend, Charles-Just, prince de Beauvau-Craon, was already a colonel, despite being only 19 years old.

Charles-François Lebrun, 1st Duke of Plaisance, prince of the Empire ( 19 March 1739 – 16 June 1824 ) was a French statesman.

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

* Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany ( 1739 – 1767 ), second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, died without issue

Thus, a portrait of Frederick the Great as Crown Prince in 1739 still shows him in armour, while a later painting showing him as victorious commander in the Seven Years ' War ( 1760s ) depicts him in uniform wearing a tricorne.

* September 10 – Charles John Frederick Lampe, organist and composer ( born 1739 )

It is known from letters to Voltaire that Frederick began to ruminate on the project early in 1738 ; his draft of the brief work was completed by the end of 1739.

Prince Edward, Duke of York ( Edward Augustus ; 25 March 1739 – 17 September 1767 ), was the younger brother of George III of the United Kingdom, the second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.

# Leopoldine Marie ( Oranienbaum, 12 December 1716 – Kolberg, 27 January 1782 ), married on 13 February 1739 to Frederick Henry, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt.

The young Cloots, heir to a great fortune, was sent to Paris at age eleven to complete his education, and became attracted to the theories of his uncle the abbé Cornelius de Pauw ( 1739 – 1799 ), philosophe, geographer and diplomat at the court of Frederick II of Prussia.

Between 1711 and 1739, more than 25 operas by George Frederick Handel premièred here.

Duke Charles Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp () ( 30 April 1700 – 18 June 1739 ) was the son of Frederick IV of Holstein-Gottorp and his wife, Hedvig Sophia, daughter of King Charles XI of Sweden.

His attempt failed, but the son of Duke Charles Frederick and Duchess Anna Petrovna, Charles Peter Ulrich ( who succeeded as Duke of Holstein-Gottorp in 1739 ), eventually became Russian tsar in 1762, as Peter III.

Before a member of the family of Holstein-Gottorp was to sit on either the Swedish or the Russian throne, Duke Charles Frederick died in 1739 in the Saxon village of Rolfshagen.

In 1739 he returned to Italy, perhaps to Naples and surely to Montecassino, in whose Abbey existed two canvases ( destroyed during World War II ).

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.

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.

Münchhausen was made a page to Anthony Ulrich II of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and followed his employer to the Russian Empire during the Russo-Turkish War ( 1735 – 1739 ).

By summer of 1739, all diplomatic efforts having been exhausted, King George II agreed, on 10 July, to direct the Admiralty Board to initiate maritime reprisals against Spain.

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.

On 17 October 1739 he obtained a Royal Charter granted by George II establishing a " hospital for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children.

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.

Rochford was appointed a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to George II in 1739 ( a mark of special royal favour ) and served in this role until 1749.

Charles Emmanuel III continued the policy of innovation and consolidation commenced by Victor Amadeus II and created a University Museum in 1739.

Nine years later the charge of forging the will of Peter II was revived against him, and he was tortured and then beheaded in Novgorod on November 8, 1739.

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.

John Brown's father was James Brown II ( 1698 – 1739 ) of Providence, and his grandfather was Elder James Brown ( 1666 – 1716 ), a pastor at the First Baptist Church ; his grandmother by Elder James Brown was Mary ( Harris ) Brown.

Obadiah joined his older brother James Brown II ( 1698 – 1739 ) in the mercantile trade in cocoa, rum, molasses and slaves.

After the death of James Brown II in 1739, Obadiah retired from the sea himself, but continued the business.

Book I ( 1736 ), dedicated to Messieurs les Comédiens Français, Book II ( 1739 ), dedicated to Monsieur Gaudion de le Grange Conseiller du Parlement, and Book V are for two cellos and basso continuo.

His name is listed as a founding governor on the royal charter of the Foundling Hospital, granted by King George II in 1739.

Ward continued to paint Hogarthian versions of episodes from British history throughout the 1860s, notably Hogarth's Studio in 1739 ( 1863, York City Art Gallery ) the Antechamber at Whitehall During the Dying Moments of Charles II ( 1865, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool ).

A Royal Charter to start the Foundling Hospital was granted by George II on 17 October 1739.

Little was known about the activity of the fort from the time it was built until two centuries later in 1739 when the King of Spain, Philip II desired information regarding the island of Cebu, Governor General Tanon, who was the Spanish ruler of the Islands at the time made the following reports:

Topham Beauclerk ( pronounced ' Bo-Clare ') ( 22 December 1739 – 11 March 1780 ) was a celebrated wit and the only son of Lord Sidney Beauclerk ; he was the great-grandson of King Charles II and a friend of Dr. Johnson and of Horace Walpole.

Richmond was one of the founding Governors of London's Foundling Hospital, which received its Royal Charter from George II in 1739.