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.

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.

This proved a hollow guarantee, however, as the French decided to intervene to partition the Habsburg Monarchy after all following the death of Charles in 1740.

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.

In 1740, after the death of her father, Charles VI, Maria Theresa succeeded him as Queen of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Parma.

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.

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.

Baji Rao Ballal Balaji Bhat () ( August 18, 1700 – April 28, 1740 ), also known as Baji Rao I, was a noted general who served as Peshwa ( Prime Minister ) to the fourth Maratha Chhatrapati ( Emperor ) Shahu from 1720 until Baji Rao's death.

In 1710 he was elevated once again as Duke of Kent, and following the death of his sons, Marquess Grey ( 1740 ) with a special remainder to his granddaughter.

By the time of Henry's death in 1740, both of his sons had died, Anthony ( in 1723 ) and George ( in 1733 ), leaving the Duke of Kent without a male heir.

Upon his death in 1740, the young Dehwe Mapunzagutu took power.

After the death of his first wife he married, on February 5, 1740 / 1, Mary Haynes.

Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhatt ( August 18, 1700-April 25, 1740 ), also known as Baji Rao I, was a noted general who served as Peshwa ( Prime Minister ) to the fourth Maratha Chhatrapati ( Emperor ) Shahu between 1720 until death.

In 1724 Tickell was appointed secretary to the Lords Justices of Ireland, a post which he retained until his death in 1740, at Bath.

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.

He was Kapellmeister to Frederick the Great from his ascension to the throne in 1740 until Graun's death nineteen years later in Berlin.

On the death of George William the last duke in 1675, however, Austria refused to acknowledge the validity of the treaty and annexed the duchies and Frederick the Great of the Kingdom of Prussia used this treaty to justify his claim at the invasion of Silesia during the War of the Austrian Succession in 1740.

* Henry Grey, 12th Earl of Kent ( 1671 – 1740 ) ( created Marquess of Kent in 1706, Duke of Kent in 1710 ) ( extinct on his death )

After his death in 1740, a second printing of his book was produced in 1767.

She had a daughter in February 1727, and reappeared briefly in 1740 when she was imprisoned for receiving stolen goods, but her death was reported in 1763.

He returned to Venice in 1719 and remained there until his death in 1740.

During his administration he brought focus on the border dispute between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, cultivating power centers in London that eventually led to resolution of that dispute ( albeit in 1740, long after his death ), and establishing the dynasty that would dominate New Hampshire until independence.

In view of the death of both his sons and the consequent extinction of the dukedom at his death the Duke managed to obtain in 1740 ( at the cost of his other Grey titles excluding Lucas ) only a new marquessate, Marquess Grey.

* 1740 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor ( b. 1685 )

* October 1 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor ( d. 1740 )

They allied the country with Charles VI, ( Holy Roman Emperor from 1711 to 1740 ), and committed Russia during the War of the Polish Succession ( 1733 – 1735 ).

She started her 40-year reign when her father, Emperor Charles VI, died in October 1740.

The Altar was built in 1530 by the Jiajing Emperor and rebuilt in 1740.

* Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor and VI of Naples ( 1685 – 1740 )

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

The Emperor died on 20 October 1740 at the Favorita Palace, Vienna.

In 1740 Hoogstraten was elevated to a Duchy by Emperor Charles VI, but barely half a century later, during French rule, it lost its titles of ‘ town ’ and ‘ duchy .’ The status of a town often depended on whether the townspeople were considered supporters or not, so one might infer that the area was seen to have anti-French feeling.

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.

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

* Ivan VI ( 1740 – 1764 ) ( reigning Emperor 1740-1741 )

The reigns of Maria Theresa ( 1740 – 1780 ) and her son Joseph II ( 1780 – 1790 ), Holy Roman Emperor and coregent from 1765, were characterized by enlightened rule.

When Charles died in 1740, his daughter, Maria Theresa, had to fight for her family's entitlements in Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia, and her husband faced competition in his election as the Holy Roman Emperor.

* Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1711 – 1740 )

* 1706 – 1740: Charles IV ( cousin of, also Holy Roman Emperor )

At Charles's death in 1740 the Habsburg lands passed to Maria Theresa and Francis, who was later elected Holy Roman Emperor as Francis I.

The Habsburgs also held the title of Holy Roman Emperor between 1438 and 1740, and again from 1745 to 1806.

It happened then that Charlotte Christine father, was thus not only the father in law of the Russian tsarevich, but also the father in law of the now Emperor of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI of Austria, ( October 1, 1685 – October 20, 1740, aged 55 ), the would be supposed King of the mighty Spanish Empire during the Spanish Succession War, a European War involving several of the most politically significant West European Powers.

Minor changes however were done as early as from 1740 onwards: besides various changes in the interior, a large garden was added in the northern part of the site and Emperor Francis I ( Maria Theresa's husband, who was interested in botany ) created a small garden to the east of the castle building.