5 events found for 1740
Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of
A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St
Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing…
France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession…