Explore 120 historical events from 1740–1749.
Gavriil (Gavrila) Romanovich Derzhavin was one of the most highly esteemed Russian poets before Alexander Pushkin, as well as a statesman. Although his works are traditionally cons…
Gavrila Derzhavin, Russian poet and politician (died 1816)
Louise Françoise, Duchess of Bourbon, Légitimée de France was the eldest surviving legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre Françoise-Athénaïs, Marqui…
Louise-Françoise de Bourbon, eldest daughter of King Louis XIV of France (born 1673)
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington was a British Whig statesman who served continuously in government from 1715 until his death in 1743. He sat in the English and British Hous…
Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1673)
The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740 to 1748, was a conflict between the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related co…
War of the Austrian Succession: Habsburg ruler Maria Theresa was crowned Queen of Bohemia after Austrian forces drove Fr
Jean-Pierre Christin was a French physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and musician. His proposal in 1743 to reverse the Celsius thermometer scale was widely accepted and is still…
French physicist Jean-Pierre Christin published the design of a mercury thermometer using the centigrade scale, with 0 r
The War of the Austrian Succession, 1740 to 1748, was a conflict between the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Related co…
War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch led troops in battle, Allied forces commanded by
Jean Senebier was a Genevan Calvinist pastor and naturalist. He was chief librarian of the Republic of Geneva. A pioneer in the field of photosynthesis research, he provided extens…
Jean Senebier, Swiss pastor and physiologist (died 1809)
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, was the fifth child of Maria Theresa of Austria and Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor. Married in 1766 to Prince Albert of Saxony, the couple recei…
Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen (died 1798)
William Hooper was an American Founding Father, lawyer, and politician. As a member of the Continental Congress representing North Carolina, Hooper signed the Continental Associati…
William Hooper, American physician, lawyer, and politician (died 1790)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was a German physicist, satirist, and Anglophile. He was the first person in Germany to hold a professorship explicitly dedicated to experimental physic…
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German physicist and academic (died 1799)
Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino was an Italian poet and opera librettist. He was the son of the composer Carlo Pallavicino (1630?-1688).
Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, Italian poet and translator (born 1672)
Count Arvid Bernhard Horn af Ekebyholm was a Swedish general, diplomat and politician, a member of the noble Horn family. He served twice as president of the privy council chancell…
Arvid Horn, Swedish general and politician (born 1664)
Lars Roberg was a Swedish physician and natural science researcher. He served as a professor of anatomy and medicine at Uppsala University.
Lars Roberg, Swedish physician and academic (born 1664)
Pylyp Stepanovych Orlyk was a Zaporozhian Cossack statesman, diplomat and member of Cossack starshyna. Described as the first Ukrainian political emigrant, he served as the hetman …
Pylyp Orlyk, Ukrainian diplomat (born 1672)
John Aislabie, of Studley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire, was a British politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 to 1721. He was of an independent min…
John Aislabie, English politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1670)
Dom Guido Grandi, was an Italian monk, priest, philosopher, theologian, mathematician, and engineer.
Luigi Guido Grandi, Italian monk, mathematician, and engineer (born 1671)
John Oldmixon was an English historian.
John Oldmixon, English historian, poet, and playwright (born 1673)
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco was an Italian composer, violinist, and cellist.
Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco, Italian violinist and composer (born 1675)
Richard Bentley was an English classical scholar, critic, and theologian. Considered the "founder of historical philology", Bentley is widely credited with establishing the English…
Richard Bentley, English scholar and theologian (born 1662)
William Somervile or Somerville was an English poet who wrote in many genres and is especially remembered for "The Chace", in which he pioneered an early English georgic.
William Somervile, English poet and author (born 1675)
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias took place during the 1739 to 1748 War of Jenkins' Ear between Spain and Great Britain. The result of long-standing commercial tensions, the war w…
The Battle of Cartagena de Indias ends in a Spanish victory and the British begin withdrawal towards Jamaica with substa
Maria Theresa was the ruler of the Habsburg monarchy from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position in her own right. She was the sovereign of Austria, …
Maria Theresa is crowned Queen of Hungary
Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original phil…
Reverend Jonathan Edwards preaches to his congregation in Enfield, Connecticut his most famous sermon, "Sinners in the…
Samuel Chase was a Founding Father of the United States, signer of the Continental Association and United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland, and As…
Samuel Chase, American lawyer and jurist (died 1811)