Historical Events In 1740
Friday, 11 July 2025
Jan 02 Johann Georg Weichenberger, composer, dies at 63 in the year 1740.
Jan 05 On this day in history antonio Lotti, Italian opera composer, dies at about 72
Feb 03 Charles de Bourbon, King of Naples, invites Jews to return to Sicily in the year 1740.
Feb 03 In the year 1740 guillaume Lasceux, composer
Feb 07 In the year 1740 adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP
Feb 08 Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], blind Pope (1730-40), dies at 87 in the year 1740.
Feb 09 Vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85 in the year 1740.
Feb 12 In the year 1740 matej Sojka, composer
Feb 15 Ernst Eichner, composer in the year 1740.
Feb 16 Giambattista Bodoni, Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer (Bodoni) in the year 1740.
Feb 17 On this day in history horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist
Mar 06 On this day in history giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica)
Mar 19 In the year 1740 johann Georg Roser, composer
Mar 24 On this day in history john Antes, composer
Apr 02 In the year 1740 armand-Gaston Camus, French CEO (Council of 500)
Apr 04 On this day in history wolfgang Nicolaus Haueisen, composer
Apr 18 In the year 1740 francis Baring, banker/merchant
Apr 23 Thomas Tickell, poet, dies on this day in history.
May 02 Elias Boudinot, lawyer/patriot, found Amer Biblical Society in the year 1740.
May 09 On this day in history giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Barber of Seville)
May 31 Frederick-William I, King of Prussia (1713-1740), dies at 51 in the year 1740.
Jun 02 Marquis de Sade, 1st known sadist/writer (Justine) on this day in history.
Jun 02 On this day in history the birth of Marquis de Sade, French author
Jun 06 On this day in history alexander Spotswood, British governor of Virginia Colony
Jun 08 Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer in the year 1740.
Jun 11 In the year 1740 luigi Gatti, composer
Jun 18 In the year 1740 karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor
Jun 21 On this day in history hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief)
Jun 22 On this day in history king Frederik II of Prussia ends torture & guarantees religion & freedom of the press
Jul 11 Czarina Anne of Little Russia, expels Jews in the year 1740.
Jul 11 On this day in history jews are expelled from Little Russia by order of Czarina Anne
Jul 17 In the year 1740 prospero Lambertini chosen Pope Benedictus XIV
Jul 19 In the year 1740 francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname), dies at 71
Aug 10 In the year 1740 samuel Arnold, composer
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