Page 2: Historical Events In 1740

Aug 13   Hunger strike in Rotterdam.   

Aug 14   Pius VII, [Luigi B Chiaramonti], bishop of Imola/Pope (1800-23).   

Aug 15   M Claudius, writer   

Aug 23   Ivan VI, Emperor of Russia 1740-41).   

Aug 26   Joseph Montgolfier, With his brother invented the hot air balloon is born.   

Aug 26   Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, France, aeronaut (ballooning)   

Oct 08   Chinese assault on Diestpoort Batavia   

Oct 08   Michel-Julien Mathieu, composer.   

Oct 09   Neth gov-general Adriaen Valckenier allows murder of 8000 Chinese inhabitants of Batavia   

Oct 14   Joannes Siberg, Dutch governor-general of Neth Indies (1801-05)   

Oct 17   Ivan VI is recorded as becoming Czar of Russia   

Oct 20   Belle van Zuylen, Neth/Swiss writer (Three Women)   

Oct 20   Karl VI, German emperor (1711-40), dies   

Oct 20   Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia   

Oct 26   Ernest Louis Muller, composer   

Oct 28   Anna Ivanova Romanova, empress of Russia (1730-40), dies at 47   

Oct 28   Ivan VI is recorded as becoming czar of Russia [OS=Oct 17]   

Oct 29   James Boswell, Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer   

Oct 29   James Boswell, Scottish biographer and diarist is born   

Oct 31   William Paca, US judge/signer (Declaration of Independence)   

Nov 24   John Bacon, English sculptor   

Dec 13   Franz Xaver Schnitzer, composer.   

Dec 16   Prussian Libya falls to Silezie   

Dec 26   Mauritius Louis II earl of Nassau, lt-gen (12 children), dies   

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Feb 03   In the year 1740 birth of guillaume Lasceux, composer   

Feb 07   Adam-Philippe Custine, French earl/general/MP was born on this day in history.   

Feb 12   Matej Sojka, composer was born on this day in history.   

Feb 15   In the year 1740 birth of ernst Eichner, composer   

Feb 16   In the year 1740 birth of giambattista Bodoni, Saluzzo Italy, printer/typeface designer (Bodoni)   

Feb 17   On this day in history birth of horace B de Saussure, Swiss physicist/geologist   

Mar 06   In the year 1740 birth of giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica)   

Mar 19   Johann Georg Roser, composer was born in the year 1740.   

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   

Jan 27   Louis Henri, Duc de Bourbon, Prime Minister of France (b. 1692) died on this day in history.   

Feb 08   Clement XII, [Lorenzo Corsini], blind Pope (1730-40), dies at 87 in the year 1740.   

Feb 09   In the year 1740 vincenz Lubeck, composer, dies at 85   

Feb 29   On this day in history death of pietro Ottoboni, Italian cardinal (b. 1667)   

Apr 23   On this day in history thomas Tickell, poet, dies   

Apr 25   Shrimant Baji Rao Vishwanath Bhat, also known as Baji Rao I, a general and Peshwa (b. 1699) died on this day in history.