* 1740 – Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux, French general ( d. 1817 )

* 1688 – Frederick William I of Prussia ( d. 1740 )

* 1740 – Pope Pius VII ( d. 1823 )

* 1740 – Matthias Claudius, German poet ( d. 1815 )

The last maker of the family was Nicolo's son, Girolamo Amati, known as Hieronymus II ( February 26, 1649 – February 21, 1740 ).

* 1740 – Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English merchant banker ( d. 1810 )

* 1752 – Start of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, a new phase in Burmese Civil War ( 1740 – 1757 )

* 1740 – Samuel Arnold, English composer and organist ( d. 1802 )

* 1652 – Pope Clement XII ( d. 1740 )

In 1740, Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great ( 1740 – 1786 ), came to power.

( 1739 – 1740 )

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

1710 – 14 October 1740 ) was an Italian singer, harpsichordist, and composer whose works bridge the Baroque and Classical periods.

* 1814 – Marquis de Sade, French writer ( b. 1740 )

* 1740 – Arthur Lee, American diplomat ( d. 1792 )

In 1757, he married Mary ( Polly ) Howard ( 1740 – 1770 ).

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.

* 1740 – Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal ( b. 1667 )

* 1693 – Empress Anna of Russia ( d. 1740 )

* 1740 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver ( d. 1813 )

The Royal Navy captured a handful of the new French frigates during the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) and were impressed by them, particularly for their inshore handling capabilities.

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.

In the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ) Maria Theresa fought successfully for recognition of her succession to the throne.

* 1740 – A combined force Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins ' Ear.

* 1757 – End of Konbaung-Hanthawaddy War, and end of Burmese Civil War ( 1740 – 1757 )

Throughout the 18th century the Royal Navy gradually gained ascendancy over the French Navy, with victories in the War of Spanish Succession ( 1701 – 1714 ), inconclusive battles in the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), victories in the Seven Years ' War ( 1754 – 1763 ), a partial reversal during the American War of Independence ( 1775 – 1783 ), and consolidation into uncontested supremacy during the 19th century from the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

She led the country into the two major European conflicts of her time: the War of Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 8 ) and the Seven Years ' War ( 1756 – 63 ).

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 ).

Next came the War of the Austrian Succession in 1740 in which France supported King Frederick II of Prussia against Maria Theresa of Austria, archduchess of Austria.

* 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.

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.

In 1740, the death of Emperor Charles VI and his succession by his daughter Maria Theresa started the European War of the Austrian Succession.

The War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 1748 ), which pitted the French and Prussians against the Austrians, British, and Dutch, culminated in a series of major French victories: the Battle of Fontenoy ( 1745 ), the Battle of Rocoux ( 1746 ), and the Battle of Lauffeld ( 1747 ).

Edme Bouchardon's equestrian statue of Louis XV was originally conceived to commemorate the monarch's victorious role in the War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 48 ) and artistically executed to display a benign representation of the king as peacemaker.

At the beginning of the War of the Austrian Succession between Frederick II of Prussia ( the Great ) and the Habsburg empress Maria Theresa of Austria, the greatest part of Silesia, including Rybnik, was annexed by Prussia in 1740, which Austria eventually recognized in 1763.

It was the last major action in the War of Jenkin's Ear ( 1739 – 48 ), which had merged with the larger War of the Austrian Succession ( 1740 – 48 ).

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

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 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.

Three popes have been elected from former conclavists, including Pope Pius VI ( a conclavist in the 1740 conclave ).

Benjamin Huntsman, a clockmaker from Sheffield, had pioneered a process to make crucible steel in 1740, but the British had managed to keep it secret, forcing others to import steel.

* October 21 – Francis Light, founder of the British colony of Penang ( b. 1740 )

* August 4 – John Bacon, a British sculptor ( b. 1740 )

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 the inhabitants of Georgia launched an overland attack on the fortified city of St. Augustine in Florida, supported by a British naval blockade, but were repelled.

John Bacon ( November 24, 1740 – August 4, 1799 ) was a British sculptor.

By the early 18th century, the table sauce had made it to the Malay states ( present day Malaysia and Singapore ), where it was discovered by British explorers, and by 1740, it had become a British staple.

It was named for George Anson, Baron Anson, a British admiral, who circumnavigated the globe from 1740 to 1744, and later became First Lord of the Admiralty.

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.

In the summer of 1740, Lawrence received a coveted officer's commission in the Regular British Army, and made preparations to go off to war in the Caribbean with the newly formed American Regiment.

Marshall Bengal, The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740 – 1828 ( Cambridge ) 1988

The Long Land Pattern " Brown Bess " musket was the British infantryman's basic arm from about 1740 until the 1830s.

* Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon ( 1675 – 1740 ), British military officer and statesman

The Miskito king Edward and the British concluded a formal Treaty of Friendship and Alliance in 1740, and Robert Hodgson, Senior was appointed as Superintendent of the Shore.

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

* John Hart ( governor ) ( died 1740 ), British colonial administrator, Governor of the Leeward Islands, 1721 – 1728

Adyar and the neighbouring Guindy had been used as hunting grounds by British officials of Fort St. George from the 1680s onwards though Adyar is first mentioned as a suburb of Madras only in a map from the year 1740 when the British purchased the village and integrated it with the Madras Presidency.

* Sir George Thomas, 3rd Baronet ( c. 1740 – 1815 ), British MP for Arundel

Archibald Dalzel ( 1740 – 1811 ) was a British adventurer and Governor of the Gold Coast ( now Ghana ).

The word originally referred to a drink made with water or " small beer " ( a weak beer ) and rum, which British Vice Admiral Edward Vernon introduced into the Royal Navy on 21 August 1740.