Britain declared much of the area a Protectorate in 1740, though they exercised little authority as a result of this decision.

As a result, the Ottoman Empire in 1740 renewed the French capitulations, which marked the supremacy of French trade in the Middle East.

The first attempt to obtain an Act of Parliament was made in 1740, as a result of a petition by the people of Halifax, Ripponden and Elland.

It tells the story of a novice midshipman, Peter Palafox, who joins Anson's 1740 circumnavigation of the globe.

In The Golden Ocean and The Unknown Shore, based on events of the Anson circumnavigation of 1740 – 1743, they can be clearly seen in the characters of Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow.

During his 1740 – 1744 circumnavigation, Lord Anson also saw the proa.

In 1740, a small chapel was built to house the statue but it was soon realized that the building would be too small for the number of pilgrims it attracted, and so Steingaden Abbey decided to commission a separate shrine.

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

Deism flourished in England between 1690 and 1740, at which time Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ( 1730 ), also called " The Deist's Bible ", gained much attention.

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.

So popular was this type of still life painting, that much of the technique of Dutch flower painting was codified in the 1740 treatise Groot Schilderboeck by Gerard de Lairesse, which gave wide-ranging advice on color, arranging, brushwork, preparation of specimens, harmony, composition, perspective, etc.

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

Having finished his edition of Valsalva in 1740, he was taking a holiday in the country, spending much of his time in the company, of a young friend who was curious in many branches of knowledge.

They, like the O ' Neills of Tyrone, spent much of the seventeenth century fighting for the Catholic powers ; in 1740 they relocated permanently to Portugal.

The much older works Neuer Nekrolog der Deutschen and Oesterreichische National-Encyklopädie do not give a place of birth and only the year 1740 for his birth.

The chapel stands today much as it did in 1740, despite there being no marker for the Earl.

Around 1705 the leader was Katsonis, uncle of the hero Lambros Katsonis, who was nicknamed " Vrykolakas " meaning ' vampire ', because until his death in 1740, he was so much feared by the Ottoman Turks that they left the whole territory to his jurisdiction in order to free themselves from him.

It was Euler ( presumably around 1740 ) who turned his attention to the exponential function instead of logarithms, and obtained the correct formula now named after him.

His first serious opera Ricimero rè de ' Goti, presented in the Roman Teatro Argentina in January 1740, brought him to the attention and then the protection of the Duke of York, Henry Benedict.

The site received international attention when Dublin artist Susanna Drury made watercolour paintings of it in 1739 ; they won Drury the first award presented by the Royal Dublin Society in 1740 and were engraved in 1743.

More than 40 volumes of music appeared between 1725 and 1740 and these were widely distributed across Europe, owing to Telemann's numerous contacts in various countries.

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.

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.

Under pressure from the citizens of Ommen and after the Peace of Utrecht of 1713, the fortress was closed down in 1715, only to be reinstated as a fortified arsenal in 1740 when war reignited in Continental Europe.

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

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.

" Redcoats in the Wilderness: British Officers and Irregular Warfare in Europe and America, 1740 to 1760 ", The William and Mary Quarterly > 3rd Ser., Vol.

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.

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

* Having begun in Europe in 1740, The War of the Austrian Succession spreads to North America ( King George's War ).

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.

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 ".

After visiting continental Europe in 1740, he settled in London, where he gained an extensive practice.

Some of their works are considered precursors of archaeoastronomy ; antiquarians interpreted the astronomical orientation of the ruins that dotted the English countryside as William Stukeley did of Stonehenge in 1740, while John Aubrey in 1678 and Henry Chauncy in 1700 sought similar astronomical principles underlying the orientation of churches.

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.

Sterne graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in January 1737 ; and returned in the summer of 1740 to be awarded his Master of Arts degree.

The prosperity enjoyed during the first two centuries ( 1540 – 1740 ) while contributing to colonial growth ; the placing of extensive regional judicial authority ( Real Audiencia ) as part of its jurisdiction ; and the pivotal role it played at the height of the Spanish Empire-the first modern global empire-helped define a distinctive sense of autonomy and of regional or national identity within Panama well before the rest of the colonies.

During the reign of her cousin Anna ( 1730 – 1740 ), Elizabeth was gathering support in the background ; but after the death of Empress Anna, the regency of Anna Leopoldovna with infant Ivan VI was marked by high taxes and economic problems.

Thereafter, until the end of the century, Pierrot appeared fairly regularly in English pantomimes ( which were originally mute harlequinades but later evolved into the Christmas pantomimes of today ; in the 19th century, the harlequinade was presented as a " play within a play " during the pantomime ), finding his most notable interpreter in Carlo Delpini ( 1740 – 1828 ).

Hubert-François Gravelot | Gravelot illustration of Aaron cutting off Titus's hand in Act 3, Scene 1 ; engraved by Gerard Van der Gucht ( 1740 )

Christoph Wolff suggests on the basis of handwriting evidence that Anna Magdalena copied the aria from the autograph score around 1740 ; it appears on two pages previously left blank.

# Princess Maria Vittoria Margherita of Savoy ( 1740 – 1742 ) died in infancy ;

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.

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.

Hogarth's truthful, vivid full-length portrait of his friend, the philanthropic Captain Coram ( 1740 ; formerly Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now Foundling Museum ), and his unfinished oil sketch of The Shrimp Girl ( National Gallery, London ) may be called masterpieces of British painting.

The Indian Queen Tavern ( CE-127 ; circa 1740 ): One of the founders of Charlestown, Zebulon Hollingsworth, was an inn-keeper who constructed the “ Indian Queen ,” the most significant historic resource in Charlestown.

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.

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.

He was in Paris by about 1740 ; from 1749 he lived in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine.

; 1740: Parliament of Great Britain passes a general act permitting Jews to be naturalized in the American colonies.

; 1740: Ottoman authorities invite Rabbi Haim Abulafia ( 1660 – 1744 ), renowned Kabbalist and Rabbi of Izmir, to come to the Holy Land.

; 1740 – 1750: Thousands immigrate to Palestine under the influence of Messianic predictions.

Ivan VI Antonovich of Russia ( Ivan Antonovich ; ; – ), was proclaimed Emperor of Russia in 1740, as an infant, although he never actually reigned.

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.