Explore 236 historical events from 1740–1749.
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, was a British landowner and politician who represented Hereford in the English and British House of Commons from 1698 until 1714, when he succee…
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire (born 1673)
John Cruger was an immigrant to colonial New York with an uncertain place of birth, but his family was originally Danish. In New York from at least 1696, he became a prosperous mer…
John Cruger, Danish-American businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of New York City (born 1678)
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough was an English courtier and noblewoman who became one of the most influential women of her time through her close relationship with Anne, Qu…
Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (born 1660)
Prussia was a German state centred on the North European Plain. It originated from the 1525 secularization act of the Prussian part of the State of the Teutonic Order. For centurie…
Prussia declared its intervention in the War of the Austrian Succession on behalf of Charles VII, beginning the Second…
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 of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia after defeating her rival, Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor
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…
Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale
The Battle of Dettingen took place on 27 June 1743 during the War of the Austrian Succession, near Karlstein am Main in Bavaria. An alliance composed of British, Hanoverian and Aus…
In the Battle of Dettingen, George II becomes the last reigning British monarch to participate in a battle
The Treaty of Åbo, or the Treaty of Turku, was a peace treaty signed between the Russian Empire and Sweden in Åbo (Turku) on 18 August [O.S. 7 August] 1743 in the end of the Russo-…
The Treaty of Åbo ended the 1741–1743 Russo-Swedish War.
The Russo-Swedish War of 1741–1743 was instigated by the Hats, a Swedish political party that aspired to regain the territories lost to Russia during the Great Northern War, and by…
The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrenders to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.
The Kingdom of Sardinia, also referred to as the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica among other names, was a kingdom in Southern Europe from the late 13th until the mid-19th century. …
Great Britain, Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia sign the Treaty of Worms.
Edmund Cartwright was an English inventor. He graduated from Oxford University and went on to invent the power loom. Married to local Elizabeth McMac at 19, he was the brother of M…
Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom (died 1823)
Seth Warner was an American soldier. He was a Revolutionary War officer from Vermont who rose to the rank of Continental colonel and was often given the duties of a brigade comman…
Seth Warner, American colonel (died 1784)
Jean-Paul Marat was a French political theorist, physician, and scientist. A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was a vigorous defender of the sans-culottes…
Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician (died 1793)
Giuseppe Balsamo, known by the alias Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, was an Italian occultist, self-styled magician and confidence trickster. He became a glamorous figure associate…
Alessandro Cagliostro, Italian occultist and explorer (died 1795)
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)
Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution on accusations of treason—par…
Madame du Barry, French mistress of Louis XV (died 1793)
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier, also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution, was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who …
Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist and biologist (died 1794)
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet, known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, political economist, politician, and mathematician. His ideas,…
Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and political scientist (died 1794)
Quintin Craufurd was a British author born at Kilwinning, Scotland.
Quintin Craufurd, Scottish author (died 1819)
Christian Ehregott Weinlig was a German composer and cantor of Dresden's Kreuzkirche.
Christian Ehregott Weinlig, German cantor and composer (died 1813)
Giuseppe Gazzaniga was a member of the Neapolitan school of opera composers. He composed fifty-one operas, particularly opera buffa.
Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Italian composer and educator (died 1818)
Friedrich Karl August was Prince of Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont from 1763 to 1812.
Friedrich Karl August, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (died 1812)
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)
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, was an English courtier and political writer. Heir to the Earl of Bristol, he obtained the key patronage of Walpole, and was involved in many court i…
John Hervey, 2nd Baron Hervey, English courtier and politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household (born 1696)