* 1688 – Frederick William I of Prussia ( d. 1740 )

Frederick William I () ( 14 August 1688 – 31 May 1740 ) was the King in Prussia and Elector of Brandenburg ( as Frederick William II ) from 1713 until his death.

Frederick William died in 1740 at age 51 and was interred at the Garrison Church in Potsdam.

From 1713 to 1740, King Frederick William I, also known as the " Soldier King ", established a highly centralized, militarized state with a heavily rural population of about three million ( compared to the nine million in Austria ).

* 1713 – 1740: Frederick William I ( son of )

* 1740 – 1786: Frederick II ( son of, later also King of Prussia )

* Frederick II ( 1740 – 1786 ) ( son of, before King in Prussia )

But in 1740 Frederick II had become King.

* August 14 – King Frederick William I of Prussia ( d. 1740 )

Next came the War of the Austrian Succession in 1740 in which France supported King Frederick II of Prussia against Maria Theresa of Austria, archduchess of Austria.

* Carl Heinrich Graun ( 1704 – 1759 ) was Kapellmeister starting in 1740 for Frederick II of Prussia ( Frederick the Great )

# Marie Carolina ( November 15, 1697-May 8, 1740 ) married ( 1 ) Frederick Maurice de la Tour d ' Auvergne ( 2 ) Charles Godefroy de La Tour d ' Auvergne and had issue.

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.

Prussia in 1740 was a small but well-organized emerging international power whose new, well-educated king, Frederick II wanted to unify the disparate and scattered crown holdings by gathering intervening lands into a unified, contiguous state.

He became a flute teacher, flute maker and composer to Frederick II of Prussia ( Frederick the Great ) in 1740.

At the beginning of the War of the Austrian Succession between Frederick II of Prussia ( the Great ) and the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa of Austria, the greatest part of Silesia, including Rybnik, was annexed by Prussia in 1740, which Austria eventually recognized in 1763.

King Frederick II of Prussia conquered most of Silesia from Austria in 1740 during the Silesian Wars ; Prussian control was confirmed in the Peace of Breslau in 1742.

In 1740 Frederick the Great developed a seaport in Swinemünde.

The last maker of the family was Nicolo's son, Girolamo Amati, known as Hieronymus II ( February 26, 1649 – February 21, 1740 ).

The Austrian branch went extinct in the male person in 1740 with the death of Charles VI and in the female person in 1780 with the death of his daughter Maria Theresa and was succeeded by the Vaudemont branch of the House of Lorraine in the person of her son Joseph II.

* 1740 – 1741: Abdallah II ( 3 règne )

He established his home here in 1755 as part of a land grant from King George II of England to his father, in 1740, and called it Green Level.

Socinian theology continued in Transylvania, where Polish exiles such as Andrzej Wiszowaty Jr. taught in the Unitarian College ( 1726 – 1740 ), as evidenced in the Summa Universae Theologiae Christianae secundum Unitarios of Mihály Lombard de Szentábrahám recognized as the statement of faith of the Unitarian Church of Transylvania by Emperor Joseph II in 1782.

Despite its proximity to Liège, the territory of Herstal did not become part of the Bishopric of Liège until 1740, date at which the prince-bishop Georges-Louis de Berghes bought it from Frederick II of Prussia.

* Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, also known as Charles II of Bohemia, ( 1685 – 1740 )

Princess Augusta was born in Gotha to Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg ( 1676 – 1732 ) and Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst ( 1676 – 1740 ).

* 1740 – 1786 Frederick II, son, King of Prussia from 1772

Recalled to Prussia by King Frederick II in 1740, he was appointed lieutenant in a regiment stationed at Potsdam, where he became acquainted with J. W. L. Gleim, who interested him in poetry.

* 1740: Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great ( 1740 – 1786 ), came to power.

The House of Habsburg (; ), also Hapsburg, and also known as House of Austria is one of the most important royal houses of Europe and is best known for being an origin of all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1438 and 1740, as well as rulers of the Austrian Empire and Spanish Empire and several other countries.

In 1740, citrus juice ( usually lemon or lime juice ) was added to the recipe of the traditional daily ration of watered-down rum known as grog to cut down on the water's foulness.

He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady ( 1748 ) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison ( 1753 ).

King Agaja ( sometimes spelled Agadja ; also known as Trudo Agaja or Trudo Audati ) was the fifth King of Dahomey and ruled from 1708 to 1740.

Matthias Claudius ( August 15, 1740 – January 21, 1815 ) was a German poet, otherwise known by the penname of “ Asmus ”.

Originally called Bourne's Island ( 1680 ), then Somervell's Island ( 1740 ), Solomons, also known as Solomons Island, takes its name from 19th century Baltimore businessman Isaac Solomon, who established a cannery there shortly after the Civil War.

Elizabeth Stockton would become the wife of her neighbor, William Whiteside, in 1740 William and Elizabeth ’ s branch of the family were known as the “ Stockton Whitesides .” Thomas Whiteside, who had come to America from Ireland with his brother William Sr. also moved to Goochland County, Virginia.

Portions of the township were taken to form Little Egg Harbor Township ( February 13, 1740, now part of Ocean County ), Washington Township ( November 19, 1802 ), Pemberton borough ( December 15, 1826 ), Coaxen Township ( March 10, 1845, now known as Southampton Township ), Pemberton Township ( March 10, 1846 ), Westampton Township ( March 6, 1850 ) and Lumberton Township ( March 14, 1860 ).

One of the better known early residents was Captain Daniel Roe ( 1740 – 1820 ), who fought in the French and Indian War and served as a captain in the Revolutionary War, and for whom Captain Daniel Roe Highway is named.

He was joined shortly thereafter by Spencer Clack ( 1740 – 1832 ) and James McMahan, and a community known as " Forks of the Little Pigeon " developed around them.

Although the first land grant in the area was issued by Lord Fairfax in 1740 it was not until 1764 that Purcellville's first known settler, James Dillon from Buck's County, Pennsylvania, arrived. 1 As might be expected, it would take a road to make a town ; the early ox cart track which wound westward from Leesburg, known later as the " Great Road ," served the purpose.

While multiple sources confirm that Rochester was Barry's lover, the only source for the coaching story is a Life of Barry published in 1740 – 65 years after the events – by Edmund Curll, well known for his fanciful and inaccurate biographies.

Scheemakers is perhaps best known for executing the William Kent-designed sculpture of William Shakespeare which was erected in Poets ' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London, in 1740, as well as that to John Dryden in the same church.

Fifteen of Scheemakers ' works — monuments, figures and busts — are in Westminster Abbey ; two were executed in collaboration with his master Delvaux: the “ Hugh Chamberlen ” ( d. 1728, and therefore perhaps produced during his first visit to London ) and “ Catherine, duchess of Buckinghamshire .” He is best known by his monument to Shakespeare ( 1740 ), but as this work was designed by Kent the responsibility must not all be laid to Scheemakers ' account.

Throughout the reign of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia ( 1688 – 1740 ) the unit was known as the " Potsdamer Riesengarde " (" giant guard of Potsdam ") in German, but the Prussian population quickly nicknamed them the Lange Kerls (" long guys ").

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

Some believe that Johann Wilde and Pere Amiot traveled to China and brought the first shengs to Europe in 1740 and 1777 respectively, although there is evidence that free reed musical instruments similar to shengs were known in Europe a century earlier.

She danced and acted at various Dublin theatres until 1740, when her success as Sir Harry Wildair in The Constant Couple led to her being given her London debut at Covent Garden ; she became well known as an actress thereafter.