Dame Elizabeth advertised the lease for sale in 1739, and the remaining 64 years of the lease were assigned to Richard Wilson junior of Leeds for £ 2, 800.

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

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.

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

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.

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

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.

The Austrians, in their turn, rapidly expanded their empire: in 1718 an important part of Wallachia, called Oltenia, was incorporated to the Austrian monarchy and was only returned in 1739.

This folly was then embellished upon by John Robison ( 1739 – 1805 ), a professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, in an anti-Masonic work published in 1797.

Owing to public pressure, the British government was pushed towards declaring war with Spain in 1739.

Year 1739 ( MDCCXXXIX ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

The territory corresponding to Panama was incorporated later in 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 ).

From 1739 until the 1900s, Kronborg was used as a prison.

The Academy of Science was founded in 1739 and the Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities in 1753.

The creation of the residence was considered after the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ), but construction did not commence until 1739.

* 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.

The actual declaration of war against Spain was not proclaimed until Saturday 23 October 1739 ( Old Style ).

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.

Even in October 1739 Vernon had sent his first Lieutenant Percival along with two Spanish Fraternity on the ship, with the excuse to deliver a letter to Blas de Lezo and another who at that time was the governor of Cartagena, Don Pedro Hidalgo.

When war had broken out in 1739 it was expected in both Britain and Spain that France would join the war on the Spanish side.

War on Spain was declared by Great Britain on 23 October 1739, which has become known as the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

A greatly improved edition was published by Richard Bentley in 1739.

In 1739 the king gave it to crown prince Frederick II of Prussia, who often sold stallions to make money.

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.

Some of this was sold to Lorenz Guth on February 27, 1739.

Having failed, however, to obtain any share in politics, he returned to France in 1739, and subsequently sold Dawley.

* HMS Princess Royal was a 24-gun storeship purchased in 1739 and sold in 1750.

But in fact, the Cheraw Old Fields, sold to a Thomas Grooms in the year 1739, were located in South Carolina, near the current town of Cheraw.

* HMS Rose was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1712, rebuilt in 1724, hulked in 1739 and sold in 1744.

* was an 8-gun fireship purchased in 1739 and sold in 1746.

She was rebuilt in 1720 as a 20-gun sixth rate and was sold in 1739.

* HMS Scarborough was a hospital ship purchased in 1739 and sold in 1744.

He died in 1739 and the building was sold to Samuel Lloyd and William Wilson.

The early schools of the township were connected with the two Jordan churches for many years, possibly extending back to 1739.

In 1738, Augustine Washington recalled his eldest son Lawrence ( George's half-brother ) home from The Appleby School in England and set him up on the family's Little Hunting Creek tobacco plantation, thereby allowing Augustine to move his family back to Fredericksburg at the end of 1739.

Charles de Brosses, a French politician and writer, wrote, in 1739, " The Tuscans would give two-thirds of their property to have the Medici back, and the other third to get rid of the Lorrainers.

The cloister of the adjacent monastery which dates back to 1739 now houses a museum of sacred art.

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

* 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.

In the United States, the beginnings of an environmental movement can be traced as far back as 1739, though it was not called environmentalism and was still considered conservation until the 1950s.

Robert James of Essex, England, is thought to have brought back the first live camellia to England in 1739.

The museum was founded in 1819 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, but goes back to the collections acquired mostly through donations by the Academy since its foundation in 1739.

The first record of the name goes back to 1739.