Benjamin Huntsman, a clockmaker from Sheffield, had pioneered a process to make crucible steel in 1740, but the British had managed to keep it secret, forcing others to import steel.

* c. 1740: Modern steel was developed by Benjamin Huntsman

In 1740 Benjamin Huntsman developed the crucible technique for steel manufacture, at his workshop in the district of Handsworth in Sheffield.

* 1740 – Crucible steel technique developed by Benjamin Huntsman

These included leading figures of the European ' Enlightenment ' including the philosophers Voltaire, 1694 – 1778 ) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ); the future US Presidents John Adams ( 1735 – 1826 ) and Thomas Jefferson ( 1743 – 1826 ); Benjamin Franklin ( 1706 – 1790 ); the German landscape artist Prince Hermann von Pückler-Muskau ; the Italian statesman Giuseppe Garibaldi ( 1807 – 1882 ); Russian Tsars Nicholas I ( 1796 – 1855 ) and Alexander I ( 1777 – 1825 ); the king of Persia ; Queen Victoria ( 1819 – 1901 ) and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg ( 1819 – 61 ); Sir Walter Scott ( 1771 – 1832 ); Prince Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ( 1740 – 1817 ); Prime Ministers William Ewart Gladstone ( 1809 – 1898 ) and Sir Robert Walpole ( 1676 – 1745 ); Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 1683 – 1737 ); John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute ( 1713 – 92 ) his architect William Burges ( 1827 – 1881 ) and the present Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret.

Grayson was born in 1740 to parents Benjamin Grayson and Susannah Monroe Grayson at Belle Aire Plantation in what is now Woodbridge, Virginia.

By 1740, Benjamin Huntsman was making straight razors complete with decorated handles and hollow-ground blades made from cast steel, using a process he himself invented.

In 1740, Ogle was dispatched to England following England's declaration of war against Spain and left Benjamin Tasker, Sr. with power of attorney and " the task of supervising the construction of a new house at Belair.

* Joseph Frobisher ( 1740 – 1810 ), Canadian fur trader and politician, brother of Benjamin Frobisher

At 3 pm on March 22, 1740, an English fleet composed of ships Strafford, Norwich, Falmouth and Princess Louisa, the Diamond frigate, the bombards Alderney, Terrible and Cumberland, the fireships Success and Eleanor, and transport Goodly and Pompey, under command of Vernon himself, began to bombard the Spanish fortress.

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.

Problems began when King Frederick II of Prussia violated the Pragmatic Sanction and invaded Silesia on 16 December 1740, using the Treaty of Brieg of 1537 under which the Hohenzollerns of Brandenburg were to inherit the Duchy of Brieg as a pretext.

In 1740, he began his career as a professional musician, becoming violinist and valet to one of the university's canons, Johann Baptist, Count of Thurn-Valsassina and Taxis, in 1740.

The War of the Austrian Succession, nominally a struggle over the legitimacy of the accession of Maria Theresa to the Austrian throne, began in 1740, but at first did not involve either Britain or Spain militarily.

Settlement began about 1740 by Thomas Gould and Saunders Sanders.

He began as a soldier and worked his way up into the civil service of the company and lived in Bombay from 1728 to 1740.

The history of Lobos began in 1740 when a Jesuit mission led by Reverend Father Falkner, who surveyed the centre and South of the Province of Buenos Aires and thus picked up some geographic information of the area.

In 1740, the Mon in Lower Burma began a rebellion, and founded the Restored Hanthawaddy Kingdom, and by 1745 controlled much of Lower Burma.

Citing an obscure inheritance treaty, King Frederick II of Prussia invaded Silesia in 1740 and began the Silesian Wars.

James Napper Tandy ( 1740 – August 24, 1803 ), in Ireland, began his career at the Dublin Corporation.

Jews began to settle in Makó about the middle of the 18th-century, under the protection of Stanislavich, the Bishop of Csanad, who, in 1740, assigned a special quarter to them.

Work began in 1740 and finished c. 1800, when the older house had been fully transformed inside and out.

In 1740, the War of the Austrian Succession began, which pitted Great Britain and her Allies once more against France.

Manuel de Montiano construction began in 1740 with completion occurring in 1742.

In 1764 James Boswell ( 1740 – 1795 ) began his Grand Tour of Europe, having heard that Baltimore was " living at Constantinople like a Turk, with his seraglio all around him ".

Johnson began writing his " lives ", or individual biographical pieces, in 1740.

On March 25, 1740, construction began on the orphanage buildings.

About 1740 European immigrants, mostly Scots-Irish and German, began to settle the area.

These communities, which began forming in the seventeenth century, include areas of Nicaragua and Honduras that made up the Miskito Kingdom which was under British protection after 1740, the Garifuna community which was deported to the coat in 1797 and took up English as its language, and the many and numerous Anglophone Caribbean people who were brought to Central America by the canal companies ( the French and American Panama canal efforts ), railroad companies, and particularly the fruit companies, such as United Fruit after the 1870s and particularly in the first decades of the twentieth century.

He began his career as a page of King Frederick the Great in 1740.

In 1740 a new paša of Skadar began preparations for an offensive in the region on a scale that appeared to make successful resistance impossible.

The most influential figure in the later development of the English landscape garden was Lancelot " Capability " Brown ( 1716 – 1783 ) who began his career in 1740 as a gardener at Stowe under Charles Bridgeman, then succeeded William Kent in 1748.

Around 1740 his musical output fell sharply, even though he continued fulfilling his duties as Hamburg music director.

Although a lot across Sixth Street from Independence Hall was offered without cost by James Logan, its owner, the Trustees realized that the building erected in 1740, which was still vacant, would be an even better site.

The river was used by the farmers for a grist mill, a saw mill, an oil mill and even a distillery starting around 1740.

His colourful memoir Apology for the Life of Colley Cibber ( 1740 ) describes his life in a personal, anecdotal and even rambling style.

On old maps as late as 1740, the mountain was named Monte Bosa and even Monte Biosa by the inhabitants of Val Sesia.

The Gardes had been established by Prussian King Frederick the Great in 1740, and was considered the most prestigious posting in the Imperial German Army, it was even patroned by Emperor Wilhelm II.

Two years later, in 1740, war broke out over the Austrian succession, and France seized the opportunity to join the conflict.

In 1740 the catastrophic result of Anson's circumnavigation attracted much attention in Europe ; out of 1900 men, 1400 had died, most of them allegedly from having contracted scurvy.

It was mainly by scurvy that George Anson, in his celebrated voyage of 1740 – 2, lost within the first ten months nearly two-thirds of his crew ( 1300 out of 2000 ).

The town is laid out in 1733 and incorporated as Wilmington in 1740.

* Juan Ignacio Molina ( 1740 – 1829 ): indirectly expressed support in Ensayo sobre la historia natural de Chile where he pointed out the fact that basalt occurred both in the Andes and in coast of Chiloé where there were no sign of eruption and believed basalt to be a sort of compacted slate with vesicles.

A government official, the Duke of Devonshire, in an unprecedented move on January 19, 1740, prohibited export of grain out of Ireland to any destination except Britain.

A riot broke out in Dublin on Saturday and Sunday near the end of May 1740 when the populace believed that bakers were holding off baking bread.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Samuel Cooke, consulted with the Lords Justices, Archbishop Boulter, Speaker Boyle and Lord Chancellor Newport on December 15, 1740 to figure out a way to bring down the price of corn.

The normal death rate tripled in January and February 1740, and burials averaged out about 50 % higher during the twenty-one-month crisis than for the years 1737-1739, according to Dickson.

Cork merchants in 1740 were adamant that they would not risk shipping out corn from the port: John scott, Cork to Thomas Dillon & Co, 25 Jan. 1739-40 ( Dillon papers, N. L. I.

In 1740 the War of the Austrian Succession broke out in Europe.

In 1740, the town bought itself out from under some taxes and duties.

In either 1740 or 1741, Boydell saw a print of Hawarden Castle by William Henry Toms and was so delighted with it that he immediately set out again for London in order to learn printmaking and Lloyd promised to wait for him.

In 1740 the War of the Austrian Succession had broken out in Europe.

In 1740 a short while after the declaration of war with Spain, a separate war had broken out simultaneously in Europe, into which the War of Jenkins ' Ear soon became submerged.

A change came about 1740 when fustian masters gave out raw cotton and warps to the weavers and return to collect the finished cloth.

Although the reputation gained by the Prussian army in the wars fought between 1675 to 1715 was a good one, it was still considered one of the minor military forces in Europe by 1740, when the War of the Austrian Succession broke out.

A flood in 1740 destroyed most of the infrastructure and put the spa out of business.

In 1740 he brought out a new prayer book for the laity, the Garden of the Soul, which until the mid 20th century remained a favourite work of devotion, though the many editions that have since appeared have been so altered that little of the original work remains.

It quickly went out of control and despite an amnesty on October 11th, the 1740 Batavia massacre went on for days and killed between 5000 and 10000 inhabitants of mostly Chinese origin.