1740
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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1710s 1720s 1730s – 1740s – 1750s 1760s 1770s |
| Years: | 1737 1738 1739 – 1740 – 1741 1742 1743 |
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1740 (MDCCXL) was a leap year starting on Friday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- God Save the Queen first performed.
- Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve writes and publishes the folk story Beauty and the Beast.
1740 Media
October 9: The Batavia Massacre by the Dutch East India Company of at least 5,000 Chinese Indonesians begins in what is now Jakarta.
December 16: Start of the War of the Austrian Succession.
Portrait of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade by Charles Amédée Philippe van Loo. The drawing dates to 1760, when the Sade was nearly 20 years old. It's the only known authentic portrait of the Marquis.
- Portrait of Pope Clement XII (1652-1740)
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