is a yellowish orange citrus fruit, a group of cultivars of natsumikan ( Citrus natsudaidai ), which were discovered in 1740 in the Yamaguchi prefecture of Japan.

Around 1740 a group of Natchez refugees settled along a creek near the confluence of the Tellico River and the Little Tennessee River.

* 1970 Surface drainage, sewage, and industrial pollution caused a group of scientists and environmentalists to pronounce the river " dead " around Memphis. The Wolf River's watershed ( everything above the red dotted line ), as surveyed in 1740 by Ignace Francois Broutin, chief engineer of French Louisiana.

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.

* Giuseppe Giovanni Battista Guarneri ( filius Andreae ) ( 25 November 1666-1739 or 1740 ), Andrea's younger son, joined his father's business in Cremona, inheriting it in 1698.

William Hornby joined the East India Company as a writer in 1740, and rose to become Governor of Bombay in 1771.

He left France, according to the gossip of the time, because of a duel ; served under the Elector Palatine ; fought for Hungary against the Turks, and on the outbreak of the war of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 ) joined the army of the elector of Bavaria ( who later became emperor under the name of Charles VII ), displaying such bravery that he was promoted to the grade of lieutenant field-marshal.

They headed north to join the Iroquois for protection, and were noted in Pennsylvania ( Shamokin, by 1740 ); and in New York ( Coreorgonel ) by 1753, where they joined the Cayuga.

He painted a famous portrait of Thomas Coram ( 1740 ; now Foundling Museum, London ; reproduced in stipple by William Nutter for R. Cribb in 1796 ), and, together with some of his fellow artists, decorated the Governors ' Court Room, which contains paintings by Francis Hayman, Thomas Gainsborough and Richard Wilson.

During the age of Kabinettskriege ( Cabinet wars ), Frederick the Great, King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, " put together his armies as a well-oiled clockwork mechanism whose components were robot-like warriors.

King Agadja ( 1708 – 1740 ) attempted to end the slave trade by keeping the slaves on plantations producing palm oil, but the European profits on slaves and Dahomey's dependency on firearms were too great.

She underwent a great repair in 1718-19, was hulked in 1740 and fitted as a hospital ship in 1745 before being sold in 1749.

1740, of a branch of the great Venetian and Levantine banking house

Charles VI managed to get the great European powers to agree to the Pragmatic Sanction ( for the time being ) and died in 1740 with no male heirs.

At Florence in 1740 she visited Horace Walpole, who cherished a great spite against her, and exaggerated her eccentricities into a revolting slovenliness ( see Letters, ed.

* Louis Henri de Bourbon, Duke of Bourbon ( 18 August 1692 – 27 January 1740 ) son of Louis III, Prince of Condé and Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, he was thus the nephew of Philippe d ' Orléans and was the Prime Minister of France 1723 – 26 ; he was a great rival of the Regent and the House of Orléans in general ;

Whitefield, whose reputation as a great pulpit and open-air orator had preceded his visit, traveled through the colonies in 1739 and 1740.

* Louis-Sébastien Mercier Papers: In 1967, the library acquired the papers of Louis-Sebastien Mercier ( 1740 – 1814 ), who had had a great influence on the evolution of the theatre and in particular on realistic drama, and who is particularly known for his descriptions of Paris.

Parsons ' embrace of the Awakening was sealed by his encounter with the great British evangelist, George Whitefield, who toured the colonies in 1740.

Inspired by the evangelical preaching of George Whitefield and others, Gilbert Tennent delivered a sermon in West Nottingham, Maryland in 1740 on " The Dangers of an Unconverted Ministry.

The highly successful preaching tour of evangelist George Whitefield in 1740 ignited a religious revival — called the First Great Awakening — which energized evangelical Protestants.

for Cambridgeshire, in which his property ( Bottisham hall, which he inherited from his father in 1740 ) was situated, and he afterwards sat for the borough of Dunwich and the town of Cambridge.

Elements of the original building remain, but it has been altered over the years, not least in 1740 by the architect Isaac Ware and in 1813 by the architect James Wyatt, who designed the entrance hall, staircase and porch in the Gothic style.

In 1740, Benjamin Huntsman began melting blister steel in a crucible to even out the carbon content, creating the first process for the mass production of tool steel.

Astronomers use the Julian calendar for years before 1582, including this year 0, and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 as exemplified by Jacques Cassini ( 1740 ), Simon Newcomb ( 1898 ) and Fred Espenak ( 2007 ).

Meanwhile, under the direction of Benedict XIV ( pope 1740 – 1758 ), a special congregation collected much material for an official revision, but nothing was published.

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

The Royal Navy captured a handful of the new French frigates during the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) and were impressed by them, particularly for their inshore handling capabilities.

He was soon replaced by another legate in 1740, and he retired to Piacenza, where in 1730 Clement XII appointed him administrator of the hospital of San Lazzaro, a medieval foundation for the benefit of lepers.

However, some 22 years later, in the 1740 autobiography, he offered a different explanation, claiming that he was motivated by his desire for university education.

In the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) Maria Theresa fought successfully for recognition of her succession to the throne.

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 Samuel Richardson's 1740 novel Pamela, Mr. B. cites the story of Lucretia as a reason why Pamela ought not fear for her reputation, should he rape her.

Leonhard Euler considered the above series in 1740 for positive integer values of s, and later Chebyshev extended the definition to real s > 1.

** William Grayson, American Continental Congressman and United States Senator for Virginia ( b. 1740 )

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

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

In order to make him eligible for the imperial throne and to enable him to vote in the imperial elections as elector of Bohemia ( which she couldn't due to her gender ), Maria Theresa made Francis Stephen co-ruler of the Austrian and Bohemian lands on 21 November 1740.

Early models included the Franklin stove around 1740, which was a furnace stove intended for heating, not for cooking.

In Britain the victory was greeted with much celebration, and in 1740, at a dinner in honour of Vernon in London, the song " Rule Britannia " was performed in public for the first time.

In 1740, at the age of 22, he moved west to Mortlake ( now Pomfret ) in northeastern Connecticut, where land was cheaper and easier for young men to buy.

The libretto was also rewritten for the Ricimero by Niccolo Jommelli, performed at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1740.

Bering reached Avacha Bay in late 1740 and laid the foundation stone for the harbor town, naming the new settlement " Petropavlovsk " ( Peter and Paul ) after his two ships, the St. Peter and the St. Paul, built in Okhotsk for his second expedition.

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 ).