1740

events

politics

• 17. August: Benedikt XIV. to the Pope one selects.
• 16. December - Austrian succession war: After death emperor Karl's VI. occupies Friedrich the large one the Schlesien belonging to Austria; in the consequence the Schlesi wars begin.

born

• 4. February: Adam Philippe de Custine, French general († 1793)
• 16. February: Giambattista Bodoni, Italian writing designer, printer and publisher († 1813)
• 17. February: Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Schweizer natural scientist († 1799)
• 1. April: Karl Klemens Serol, Czech philosopher († 1801)
• 6. April: Chamfort,French writer († 1794)
• 2. June: Marquis de Sade, French author of pornografischer books († 1814)
• 24. June: Juan Ignacio Molina, Chilean priest and natural scientist († 1829)
• 10. August: Samuel Arnold, EnglishComposer († 1802)
• 13. August: Iwan VI., Russian Zar († 1764)
• 14. August: Pius VII., Pope († 1823)
• 15. August: Matthias Claudius, German writer († 1815)
• 26. August: JosephMichel Montgolfier, French flight pioneer († 1810)
• 31. August: Johann Friedrich Oberlin, minister and social pioneer († 1826)
• 2. September: Johann George Jacobi, German poet and journalist († 1814)
• 12. September: Johann HeinrichYoung towards. Stilling, German optician and writer († 1817)
• 13. September: Mark of Antoine Berdolet, French bishop († 1809)
• 23. September: Go-Sakuramachi, 117. Empress of Japan († 1813)
• 18. October: James bad-wave,the bio count von Dr († 1795)
• 4. November: Augustus Montague Toplady, English clergyman and song poet († 1778)
• 24. November: John Bacon D. A., British sculptor († 1799)

• Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit († 1817)
• Bazyli Bohdanowicz, Polish composer († 1817)
• Johann Jacob Schweppe, German inventor and beverage manufacturer († 1821)

died

• 5. January: Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (* 1665)
• 27. January: LouisIV. Henri de Bourbon Condé
• 6. February: Lorenzo Corsini, Pope from 1730 to 1740 (* 1652)
• 8. February: Clemens XII., Pope since 1730 (* 1652)
• 9. February: Vincent Luebeck, composer of the baroque (* 1654)
• 31. May: Friedrich William I., King in Prussia (* 1688)
• 1. June: Samuel who rock, reformed theologian (* 1657)
• 5. June: Johann George Abicht, theologian and language researcher (* 1672)
• 17. October: Anna, Zarin of Russia (* 1693)
• 20. October: Karl VI., Emperors of the holy Roman realm (* 1685)
• 3. December: George Gsell, Swiss baroque painter (* 1673)