The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin ( 1739 – 1811 ), in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture ( see, for example, the triumphal Arch of Titus ).

* 1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.

There is no reference to this name before 1739.

The oldest consumer magazine still in print is The Scots Magazine, which was first published in 1739, though multiple changes in ownership and gaps in publication totaling over 90 years weaken that claim.

After he had taken deacon's orders, however, he concentrated on science, and, through the patronage of Jacques Cassini, obtained employment, first in surveying the coast from Nantes to Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French arc of the meridian, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge.

* 1739 – The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736 – 1739.

* 1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.

She wrote several popular comedies, of which Das Testament is the best, and translated The Spectator ( 9 volumes, 1739 – 1743 ), Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock ( 1744 ) and other English and French works.

The Treaty of Niš is a peace treaty signed on September 29, 1739 in Niš ( East Serbia ), by the Ottoman Empire on one side and Russian Empire on the other.

* French general Charles-François Dumouriez ( 1739 – 1823 ) is buried at St. Mary the Virgin parish church.

Cruden recorded his experience in The London Citizen Grievously Injured ( 1739 ) and Smart's stay there is recorded by his daughter.

* 1739: Sharon is incorporated.

In 1739, much of the area which is now known as Gramercy was sold to Joseph Delille Dupart, Commissioner of Indian Nations under Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.

It is not know how successful the new magazine was, or why Heinsius included it in his publishing program since from 1739 he already had a similar monthly magazine under the title of " Genealogical and historical messages of the principal events of the European courts ".

This is why we have two versions of Castor et Pollux ( 1737 and 1754 ) and three of Dardanus ( 1739, 1744, and 1760 ).

The Travancore-Dutch War ( 1739 – 1753 ) is the earliest example of an Asian state overcoming a European power in war.

Laughton subsequently examined the 1739 publication and, in writing Robert Jenkins entry for the Dictionary of National Biography he dismissed it as, " a catch-penny chapbook, in which no reference is made to Jenkins's case, except in a worthless frontispiece ".

Oltenia (, also called Lesser Wallachia in antiquated versions, with the alternate Latin names Wallachia Minor, Wallachia Alutana, Wallachia Caesarea between 1718 and 1739 ) is a historical province and geographical region of Romania, in western Wallachia.

Taylor is best known for his editions of some of the Greek orators, chiefly valuable for the notes on Attic law, e. g. Lysias ( 1739 ); Demosthenes Contra Leptinem ( 1741 ) and Contra Midiam ( 1743, with Lycurgus Contra Leocratem ), intended as specimens of a proposed edition, in five volumes, of the orations of Demosthenes, Aeschines, Dinarchus and Demades, of which only vols.

It is one of England's oldest children's charities, established by royal charter in 1739 as the Foundling Hospital.

' The identity ascribed to man is nothing more than a fiction ' ( Hume, 1739 )

There is tentative evidence that there was another assistant, P. Domenico Dal Mela, who went on in 1739 to build the first upright piano.

Bayes ' document contains elements of conjecture ; for instance, his claim that Turpin was married to a Miss Palmer ( and not Elizabeth Millington ) is almost certainly incorrect, and the date of Turpin's marriage, for which no documentary evidence has been found, appears to be based solely on Bayes ' claim that in 1739 Turpin had married 11 or 12 years earlier.