Pedro de Rábago y Terán, Governor of Coahuila in the 1740s led an expedition to La Junta de los Ríos.

He independently discovered four others, originally discovered by someone else but unknown to him at the time and included in the Messier catalog: M71, discovered by Philippe de Cheseaux in the 1740s ; M80, discovered by Messier about two weeks earlier than Méchain's observation ; and M81 and M82, discovered originally by Johann Bode.

During the 1740s, the Wood's River Land Company, which was represented by Louis de la Corne, Chevalier de la Corne, attained a large tract of land within present-day southwest Ohio.

For much of its history, Chota was the most important of the Overhill towns, serving as the de facto capital of the Cherokee people from the late 1740s until 1788.

Adam de Woburn lived at Woburn Park in 1260 where famed gardener Philip Southcote chose to construct in the 1740s CE a two-storey house, also named Woburn Park, with an original ornamented farm (' ferme ornée ) on Woburn Hill with fields for cattle or crops, decorated with statues, grotto, vases, temples, archways and other features, much of which survives as part of St George's RC College.

Campo de ' Fiori in the 1740s, etching by Giuseppe Vasi.

File: Chartreuse-bottle. jpg | Chartreuse is a French liqueur made by the Carthusian Monks since the 1740s.

The first known attempts to settle the area appear to have been made during the 1740s.

It was also under her mentorship that he made his stage début as the Page in Thomas Otway ’ s tragedy The Orphan in the late 1740s.

Indoors, neoclassicism made a discovery of the genuine classic interior, inspired by the rediscoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum, which had started in the late 1740s, but only achieved a wide audience in the 1760s, with the first luxurious volumes of tightly controlled distribution of Le Antichità di Ercolano.

Firearms were individually procured by officers or regiments as late as the 1740s, and were often custom made to the tastes of the purchaser.

And East-European irregulars, such as Pandours and Hussars, had already made an impact on European warfare and theory by the 1740s.

He made a large amount of prize money during the 1740s, allowing him to purchase a large country estate and a seat in the House of Commons of Great Britain.

Chartreuse () is a French liqueur made by the Carthusian Monks since the 1740s.

In his early career Galuppi made a modest success in opera seria, but from the 1740s, together with the playwright and librettist Carlo Goldoni, he became famous throughout Europe for his comic operas in the new dramma giocoso style.

Sometime before 1712, the Canawest (" Kanawhans "-" Canallaway "-" Canaragay ") had moved to the upper Potomac and made a Treaty with the newly established trading post of Fort Conolloway which would become a part of western Maryland during the 1740s.

" Indentured servitude was an especially common way of affording migration, and in the 1740s the Irish made up nine out of ten indentured servants in some colonial regions.

Via John Pringle, who had been a family friend since the 1740s, he quickly made many valuable contacts in London, and in due time became a master inoculator.

Elihu Spencer, had made an unsuccessful attempt at ministry in the late 1740s.

At that time access from the West End was by water, but the opening of Westminster Bridge in the 1740s made access easier though less charming.

In the 1740s, Thanlyin was made the base of the French East India Company for their help in the Mon's reestablishment of Hanthawaddy Kingdom.

Colonel Malbone made his fortune as a shipping merchant and became one of the wealthiest men in Newport during the 1740s through privateering and the triangle trade.

Indoors, neoclassicism made a discovery of the genuine Roman interior, inspired by the rediscoveries at Pompeii and Herculaneum, which had started in the late 1740s, but only achieved a wide audience in the 1760s, with the first luxurious volumes of tightly-controlled distribution of Le Antichità di Ercolan.

In the 1740s, Menon first used the term, but the cooking of Vincent La Chapelle and François Marin was also considered modern.

The first surveying of the land occurred in the late 1740s.

Tradition has it that the first settlers of the " north fields " of Canterbury came from the scouts from this fort who patrolled the area in the 1740s.

By the 1740s, the settlement had grown in size and construction of the first road was begun.

The first permanent settlement of European settlers in the township probably happened around the 1740s.

The first settlements in the Norwood area began in the 1740s with settlers from Delaware and other middle Atlantic colonies following Indian trails and rivers.

In the 1740s, the first English-speaking settlers arrived to establish roots along the banks of the Wateree River.

By the 1740s Windsor Castle had become an early tourist attraction ; wealthier visitors who could afford to pay the castle keeper could enter, see curiosities such as the castle's narwhal horn, and by the 1750s buy the first guidebooks.

As early as the 1740s there were proposals for a road crossing at the site, although their viability was only considered following the construction of the first Forth bridge in 1890.

The first houses built in Bethel were in the 1730s or 1740s ; they are located at 27 Grassy Plain Street and 63 Grassy Plain Street.

Seven ships in the Royal Navy have been christened, honouring the first Baron Anson's circumnavigation in the 1740s.

In the 1740s two of his sons crossed the prairie as far as Wyoming and were the first Europeans to see the Rocky Mountains.

During the early 1740s, Jommelli wrote an increasing amount of religious music, mainly oratorios, and his first liturgical piece still extant, a very simple " Lætatus sum " in F major dated 1743, is held in the Santini collection in Münster.

The first appearance of the many German Grand Lodges dates from the 1740s, notably " Of the Three Globes ", founded in Berlin in 1744, which became the " Grand National Mother Lodge " in 1772.

Britain went to war against Spain ( the War of Jenkins ' Ear ) in the early 1740s, but France was not involved at first.

Initially light cavalry companies formed by Polish Tatars ( the very word ulan came from Lithuanian Tartar surname that might have come from an honorific name for a young, skilled warrior known as oglan ) for one of the magantes, Sapieha, the uhlans joined the forces of Augustus der Starke, the king of Poland-Lithuania-Saxony, and in early 1740s 18th century the first uhlan ' pulks ' ( regiments )-known as uhlans-were formed for his son, king Augustus III.

The first three-masted ( i. e. " ship rigged ") sloops appeared during the 1740s, and from the mid-1750s most new sloops were built with a three-masted ( ship ) rig.

These include, in addition to his numerous violin concertos, two for harpsichord, 12 for flute, one for oboe, and one for clarinet-among the earliest concertos for the instrument ( Johann Melchior Molter's six from the 1740s seem to have been the first ).

But the first successful European process had been developed by Benjamin Huntsman some 50 years previously in the 1740s.

The Mariinsky Ballet was founded in the 1740s, following the formation of the first Russian dance school in 1738.

By the 1740s the first of the Trekboers had entered the Little Karoo.

* Jones ( cricketer ) ( first name unknown ), English cricketer in the 1740s