Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1740
Birthdays
- February 16 - Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813)
- May 2 - Elias Boudinot, President of the American Continental Congress (d. 1821)
- May 7 - Nikolai Arkharov, Russian general (d. 1814)
- June 2 - Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
- July 27 - Jeanne Barι, French explorer (d. 1803)
- August 14 - Pope Pius VII, (d. 1823)
- August 15 - Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)
- August 26 - Joseph Montgolfier, French inventor (d. 1810)
- September 7 - Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor (d. 1814)
- September 12 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
- September 23 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan, (d. 1813)
- October 29 - James Boswell, Scottish biographer of Samuel Johnson (d. 1795)
- November 4 - Augustus Montague Toplady, English author of hymn "Rock of Ages" (d. 1778)
- November 14 - Johann van Beethoven, Ludwig van Beethoven's father and first teacher (d. 1792)
- December 30 - Princess Elizabeth Caroline of Wales, (d. 1759)
Deaths
- January 5 - Antonio Lotti, Italian composer (b. 1667)
- January 27 - Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon
- February 6 - Pope Clement XII, (b. 1652)
- February 29 - Pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)
- April 23 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (b. 1685)
- April 25 - Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I
- May 15 - Ephraim Chambers, English encyclopaedist (b. 1680)
- May 31 - King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, (b. 1688)
- June 1 - Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian (b. 1657)
- June 6 - Alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony
- June 17 - Sir William Wyndham, English politician (b. 1687)
- October 5 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
- October 20 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1685)
- October 28 - Empress Anna of Russia, (b. 1693)
- December 20 - Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon
Events
- July 11 - Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
- October 20 - Maria Theresa takes the throne of Austria. France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.
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