The epistolary novel as a genre became popular in the 18th century in the works of such authors as Samuel Richardson, with his immensely successful novels Pamela ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1749 ).

Ganganelli became a friend of Pope Benedict XIV ( 1740 – 58 ).

By 1740 the production of gin had increased to six times that of beer and because of its cheapness it became popular with the poor, leading to the so-called Gin Craze.

Upon Frederick's accession in 1740 Emanuel became a member of the royal orchestra.

After Richardson started the work on 10 November 1739, his wife and her friends became so interested in the story that he finished it on 10 January 1740.

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

King Agaja died in 1740 and his son, Tegbessou, became the new King.

It was named for George Anson, Baron Anson, a British admiral, who circumnavigated the globe from 1740 to 1744, and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

The hamlet was settled in 1740 as " Good Ground ", which became the main hamlet of eleven in the immediate area.

He was intended, by the King and Queen, for the office of Lord High Admiral, and, in 1740, he sailed, as a volunteer, in the fleet under the command of Sir John Norris, but he quickly became dissatisfied with the Navy, and, instead secured the post of colonel of the First Regiment of Foot Guards on 20 February 1741.

Upon the death of Anna ( 17 October of the Julian Calendar / 28 October of the Gregorian Calendar, 1740 ) Ivan was proclaimed Emperor, and on the following day Ernst Johann von Biron, duke of Courland, became regent.

After the interval of 1740 to 1744, he became the official court musician, and for the most part, composed pieces intended to entertain, with plenty of dance music emphasising sensuality and an idealised pastoral atmosphere.

He was born at Grenoble of a legal family, and, like his elder brother, the well-known political writer, abbé de Mably, took holy orders ( 1733 – 1740 ) at Saint-Sulpice in Paris and became Abbot of Mureau.

Such was the demand that the single battalion became two in 1740 ( the 1st Regiment ), three battalions in 1744, four in 1767 ( forming a 2nd Regiment ) and in 1776 a third regiment ( 5th and 6th Battalions ) was raised.

His grandfather André Maistre, who came from Provence, had been a draper and councilman in Nice ( then under the rule of the House of Savoy ), and his father François-Xavier, who moved to Chambéry in 1740, became a magistrate and senator, eventually receiving the title of count from the King of Piedmont-Sardinia.

This became the subject of some ridicule, until starting in 1740 there were also mock processions by anti-masonic groups, leading to the discontinuation of the practice in 1747.

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.

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.

After the majority of Silesia was annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia during the War of the Austrian Succession after 1740, the remaining Silesian territory still under the control of the Habsburg Monarchy became known as Austrian Silesia with its capital in Troppau ( 1742 – 1918 ).

Settled in 1740, Number Four was the northernmost township, and its 1744 log fort became a strategic military site throughout the French and Indian Wars.

In 1740, on the eve of the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), he became commander ( with the rank of commodore ) of the squadron sent to attack Spanish possessions in South America in the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

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.

By 1740 Sheffield became the most extensive user of water-power in Britain and probably in Europe.

He assisted Biren to obtain the regency in the last days of the empress Anne, but when his patron fell three weeks later ( November 1740 ), his own position became extremely precarious.

* James Napper Tandy ( 1740 – 1803 ), member of the Society of United Irishmen

In 1740, Bonnet communicated to the Academy of Sciences a paper containing a series of experiments establishing what is now termed parthenogenesis in aphids or tree-lice, which obtained for him the honour of being admitted a corresponding member of the academy.

He was elected a member of the Medical Society of Edinburgh in 1740.

He was elected a member of the Commons House of Assembly and Speaker of that body intermittently from 1736 – 1740, and he was a member of the Royal Provincial Council.

At the end of the 17th century Antiguan political opponents of Eliza's grandfather, John Lucas, believed that the Lucas family had powerful influence in London through Henry Grey ( 1664 – 1740 ), later Duke of Kent, a senior member of Queen Anne's government and Robert Lucas, 3rd Lord Lucas ( 1649 – 1705 ), then governor of the Tower of London.

Samuel Allyne Otis ( son of James Otis, Sr., father of Harrison Gray Otis and brother of prominent revolutionary James Otis, Jr. and America's first female playwright Mercy Otis Warren ), a Delegate from Massachusetts ; born in Barnstable, Barnstable County, Mass., November 24, 1740 ; was graduated from Harvard College in 1759 ; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Boston ; member of the state house of representatives in 1776 ; member of the Board of War in 1776 ; collector of clothing for the Continental Army in 1777 ; member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention ; again a member of the state house of representatives 1784-1787 and elected speaker of the house in 1784 ; Member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788 ; elected Secretary of the United States Senate on April 8, 1789, and served until his death in Washington, D. C., April 22, 1814 ; interment in Congressional Cemetery.

The first member of the Forbes family to live in the United States was John Forbes ( 1740 – 1783 ), a clergyman, who was married to Dorothy Murray on February 2, 1769 in Milton, Massachusetts, where one of his three sons was born.

* John Forbes ( 1740 – 1783 ): clergyman, first family member to travel to the United States

Jeanne Baret ( sometimes spelled Baré or Barret ) ( July 27, 1740 – August 5, 1807 ) was a member of Louis Antoine de Bougainville's expedition on the ships La Boudeuse and Étoile in 1766 – 1769.

In 1740 he was elected a member of the newly established Royal Academy of Sciences.

Doppelmayr became a member of several scientific societies, most notably the Berlin Academy, the Royal Society in 1733, and the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences ( 1740 ).

He was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1740, and was its president in 1743.

He was again a member of the Connecticut legislature from 1740 to 1749, and was appointed Judge of the Superior Court.

He also wrote numerous articles, and, after his election as a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres ( 1740 ), a number of Mémoires which appeared in the Recueil of this society.

Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet ( 18 April 1740 – 12 September 1810 ) was an English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets.

In 1825 Boyer succeeded J. F. L. Deschamps ( 1740 – 1824 ) as surgeon-in-chief at Hôpital de la Charité, and was chosen a member of the Institute.

In 1739 he became a member of Johann Friedrich Schönemann's ( 1704 – 1782 ) company in Lüneburg, and made his first appearance there on the 15th of January 1740 as Xiphares in Racine's Mithridate.

Pontoppidan became successively pastor in Hillerød and castle preacher in Frederiksborg ( 1734 ), Danish court preacher at Copenhagen ( 1735 ), professor extraordinary of theology at the University ( 1738 ), and a member of the mission board ( 1740 ), meanwhile writing his Everriculum fermenti veteris ( 1736 ) and Böse Sprichwörter ( 1739 ).

Belle-Isle held an interest in literature throughout his life, and was elected a member of the French National Academy in 1740 ; so he founded the National Academy of Metz in 1760.