Following a revolt, 5, 000 Chinese were massacred by the Dutch and natives on 9 October 1740 and the following year, Chinese inhabitants were moved to Glodok outside the city walls.

On old maps as late as 1740, the mountain was named Monte Bosa and even Monte Biosa by the inhabitants of Val Sesia.

On 9 October 1740, 5, 000 Chinese were massacred and the following year, Chinese inhabitants were ghettoized in Glodok outside the city walls.

Because of the Austro-Turkish war ( 1736 – 1739 ) and pestilence, number of inhabitants decreased and in 1740 the population of the settlement numbered 18 houses.

There is also data of San Salvador Mayor, Don Manuel de Gálvez Corral that says that in 1740, it had 220 tributary Indians or heads of household ( that is to say, about 1100 inhabitants ).

It quickly went out of control and despite an amnesty on October 11th, the 1740 Batavia massacre went on for days and killed between 5000 and 10000 inhabitants of mostly Chinese origin.

* 1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.

* Proposals relating to the war in Georgia and Florida, 1740 — a document suggesting strategies by which General James Oglethorpe might defeat the Spanish during the War of Jenkins ' Ear, from the collection of the Georgia Archives.

When Spain attacked Georgia in 1740, most of the Jewish families fled to Charleston, fearing the Spanish Inquisition.

Nevertheless no Jews in any numbers appear to have come to South Carolina until the exodus from Georgia from 1740 to 1771, already referred to.

Richard Howly ( 1740 – December 1784 ), sometimes spelled Howley, was an American planter and lawyer from Liberty County, Georgia.

It was founded in 1740 as an orphanage by evangelist George Whitefield, in the 18th century on his 500 acre ( 1, 600 m² ) land grant about south of Savannah, Georgia in the newly-founded colony of Georgia.

Vakhtang married in Imereti, western Georgia, in 1696, a Circassian princess Rusudan ( died in Moscow, December 30, 1740 ).

Mammy Kate was a house slave who belonged to future Governor Stephen Heard ( 1740 – 1815 ) of Georgia.

Stephen Heard ( November 1, 1740 – November 15, 1815 ) was briefly the 12th Governor of Georgia ( a position later known as Governor ) from when he was appointed on February 18, 1780 until Nathan Brownson was elected the tenth Governor of Georgia in August 1781 ( Myrick Davies served as president of the council in 1781 and is listed by some as de facto chief executive for some period of time ).

Heard was born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1740, and died in Elbert County, Georgia, in 1815, at the age of 75.

Born in 1740 in Savannah, in the British Province of Georgia, Samuel Elbert was the son of Baptist minister William Elbert and his wife, Sarah Greenfield.

* was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and foundered in 1745.

*, a 70-gun third-rate launched in 1679, rebuilt 1700 and 1740, and wrecked at the battle of Quiberon Bay in 1759, an 80-year-old ship by then

* The second was an 8-gun bomb vessel launched in 1740 and captured off Livorno during the War of the Austrian Succession in 1746.

* was an 80-gun third-rate, launched in 1710, hulked in 1740, and sold in 1760.

*, a 60-gun fourth rate launched in 1693, rebuilt in 1718 and hulked in 1740.

* HMS Kingston was a 60-gun fourth rate, launched in 1697, rebuilt in 1719 and 1740 and sold in 1762.

* HMS Rose was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and sold in 1755.

* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1705, rebuilt in 1729 and broken up in 1740.

* was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1740 and wrecked in 1742.

* HMS Scarborough was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and sold in 1749.

* was a 42-gun fourth rate launched in 1708, hulked in 1740 and sold in 1745.

The success of the Porto Bello operation led the British in September 1740 to send a squadron under Commodore George Anson to attack Spain's possessions in the Pacific.

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 he served as a second lieutenant in Wynyard ’ s Marines, under his brother Patrick Murray, 5th Lord Elibank, in the unsuccessful attack on Cartagena.

It is a direct attack on the then-popular novel Pamela ( November 1740 ) by Fielding's contemporary and rival Samuel Richardson and is composed, like Pamela, in epistolary form.

* 1740 Non-local native American scouts working for the French at Fort Assumption ( Memphis ) survey the Wolf as a possible military supply route from which to destroy Ackia, a Chickasaw stronghold near Tupelo that weathered an attack four years earlier.

Young Mitchell was only 11 when he played on Kilmarnock Bowling green, the oldest club in Scotland, instituted in 1740.

Elias Boudinot was born in Philadelphia on May 2, 1740.

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.

It is based on earlier inventions by the Frenchmen Basile Bouchon ( 1725 ), Jean Baptiste Falcon ( 1728 ) and Jacques Vaucanson ( 1740 )

He was created Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme on 10 May 1728 and was elected Pope 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.

Robert Jenkins, of “ Jenkins Ear ” fame ( governor 1740 – 1742 ) embarked on a programme of eliminating corruption and improving the defences.

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.

* 1739 – 1740, one of the most severe winters in the UK on record.

Year 1740 ( MDCCXL ) was a leap year starting on Friday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Charles VI died on 20 October 1740, probably of mushroom poisoning.

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.

The first display of the new queen's authority was the formal act of homage of the Lower Austrian Estates to her on 22 November 1740.

So, again with the aim of probing the Spanish defenses of that city, on March 7, 1740 Vernon left Port Royal in command of two fire-ships, three bombards and a steamer, reaching waters of Cartagena on March 13.

At 3 pm on March 22, 1740, an English fleet composed of ships Strafford, Norwich, Falmouth and Princess Louisa, the Diamond frigate, the bombards Alderney, Terrible and Cumberland, the fireships Success and Eleanor, and transport Goodly and Pompey, under command of Vernon himself, began to bombard the Spanish fortress.

After taking this Vernon news, immediately sent four ships to its fleet to intercept Spanish ships, finally getting these English circumvent controls and enter the port of Cartagena on April 21, 1740, landing there the new governor and several hundred of valuable veteran soldiers.

In 1740 there was an invasion scare when it was believed that a French fleet at Brest and a Spanish fleet at Ferrol were about to combine and launch an invasion attempt on Britain itself.

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.

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.