Explore 78 historical events from 1740–1749.
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
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
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)
Andrea Luca Luchesi was an Italian composer. He knew Mozart and Beethoven.
Andrea Luchesi, Italian organist and composer (died 1801)
Joseph Warren, was an American physician who was one of the most important figures in the Patriot movement in Boston during the early days of the American Revolution, eventually se…
Joseph Warren, American physician and general (died 1775)
Magnus Julius De la Gardie, son of Axel Julius De la Gardie, was a Swedish general and statesman, member of the Swedish Hats Party.
Magnus Julius De la Gardie, Swedish general and politician (born 1668)
Daniel Ernst Jablonski was a German theologian and reformer of Czech origin, known for his efforts to bring about a union between Lutheran and Calvinist Protestants.
Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German bishop and theologian (born 1660)
The Province of Georgia was one of the Southern Colonies in colonial-era British America. Founded as a British proprietary colony in 1732, in 1751 it became a royal colony. In 1775…
Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet was an English merchant banker, a member of the Baring family, later becoming the first of the Baring baronets.
Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet, English banker and politician (died 1810)
Elias Boudinot was an American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, and early abolitionist and women's rights advocate. During the Revolutionary War, Boudinot was an intelligence of…
Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the Continental Congress (died 1821)
Nikolai Petrovich Arkharov was a Russian chief of police best known for having given his name to the Russian term arkharovtsy, an ironic appellation of policemen.
Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police officer and general (died 1814)
Giovanni Paisiello was an Italian composer of the Classical era, and was the most popular opera composer of the late 1700s. His operatic style influenced Mozart and Rossini.
Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer and educator (probable; (died 1816)
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade was a French writer, libertine, political activist, and nobleman best known for his libertine novels and imprisonment for sex crimes, bl…
Marquis de Sade, French philosopher and politician (died 1814)
Thomas Tickell was a minor English poet and man of letters.
Thomas Tickell, English poet and author (born 1685)