1740

{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;"\n|- \n| align="center" colspan=2 | Years:
1737 1738 1739 - 1740 - 1741 1742 1743\n|-\n| align="center" colspan=2 | Decades:
1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s\n|- \n| align="center" | Centuries:
17th century - 18th century - 19th century

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1740 in literature
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths

Events

• May 31 - Friedrich II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I.\n* October 20 - Maria Theresia of Austria inherits the Habsburg hereditary dominions (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and present-day Belgium). However, her succession to the Holy Roman Empire is contested widely because she is a woman.\n* December 16 - Friedrich II of Prussia invades the Habsburg possession of Silesia, starting the War of the Austrian Succession.\n* By the act of English parliament, alien immigrants (including Huguenots and Jews) in the colonies receive British citizenship\n* Adam Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford\n* George Whitefield founds the Bethesda orphanage\n* The song Rule Britannia is first performed at Cliveden

Births

\n*June 2 - Marquis de Sade, aristocrat and author\n*August 14 - Pope Pius VII\n*August 23 - [baby] Emperor Ivan VI of Russia\n*Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit\n*Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan

Deaths

\n* January 5, Antonio Lotti, composer\n* February 6, Pope Clement XII\n* May 31 - Friedrich Wilhelm I, King of Prussia\n* October 20 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor\n* October 28 - Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n