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Fort Matanzas today, with the flag of Florida[/caption]
In the year 1740, Jews are expelled from Little Russia, part of present day Ukraine (Jul 11), the song Rule, Britannia! is first performed in England (Aug 1), troops of the Dutch East Indian Company start the massacre of thousands of Chinese Indonesians in Batavia, present day Jakarta (Oct 9), Spain begins construction on Fort Matanzas on the Florida’s Atlantic coast to safeguard the strategic inlet of Matanzas, the southernmost access for boat travel between St. Augustine and Havana, Cuba - and all these fine people were born:
1740-0xxx Johann van Beethoven* singer/father of Ludwig van Beethoven - Bonn, Germany (1792/c. 52) (birthdate possibly end of 1739)
1740-0122 Noah Phelps* soldier/lawyer/ magistrate - Simsbury, Connecticut (1809/69)
1740-0204 Carl Michael Bellman* songwriter/composer/musician - Stockholm, Sweden (1795/55)
1740-0226 Giambattista Bodoni* Italian typographer/ printer/publisher - Cottian Alps, Kingdom of Sardinia (1813/73)
1740-0316 Johann Jacob Schweppe* watchmaker/amateur scientist/the founder of Schweppes - Witzenhausen, Hessen-Kassel, Holy Roman Empire (1821/81)
1746-0407 Haym Salomon* Polish-American merchant/ prime financier to the Continental Congress/to U.S. at age 35 - Leszno, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1785/44)
1740-0414 Anna Strong* (b Smith) Patriot spy during the American Revolution - Setauket, New York, British America (1812/72)
1740-0420
1740-0430
1740-0507 Nikolai Arkharov* nobleman/ chief of police - Russian Empire (1814/73)
1740-0510
1740-0520
1740-0602 Marquis de Sade* revolutionary politician/ writer/famous for his libertine sexuality (->sadism) - Paris, Kingdom of France (1814/74)
1740-0624 Juan Ignacio Molina* Chilean-Spanish Jesuit priest/naturalist/historian - Guaraculén, Captaincy General of Chile (1829/89)
1740-0627 James Woodforde* clergyman/ diarist - Ansford, Somerset, England (1803/62)
1740-0727 Jeanne Baret* explorer/recognized as the first woman to have circumnavigated the globe - La Comelle, Burgundy, France (1807/67)
1740-0801
1740-0823 Ivan VI of Russia* Emperor of Russia as infant - Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (1764/23)
1740-0826 Joseph-Michel Montgolfier* aviation pioneer/balloonist/paper manufacturer - Annonay, Ardèche, Kingdom of France (1810/69)
1740-0907 Johan Tobias Sergel* sculptor - Stockholm, Sweden (1814/73)
1740-0925 Hercules Mulligan* Irish-American tailor/spy during the American Revolutionary War - Coleraine, County Londonderry, Ireland (1825/84)
1740-1029 James Boswell* biographer/diarist/lawyer - Edinburgh, Scotland (1795/54)
1740-1201
1740-1208 Elisabeth Olin* opera singer/actress/ composer - Stockholm, Sweden (1828/87)
1740-1210
1740-1216 Robert Van Rensselaer* Brigadier General/politician - Rensselaer, Province of New York, British America (1802/61)
1740-1217 Peeta Jaakontytär Lusa** (b Rinta-Nikkola) mother of Maria Sipintytär Orhanen - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1797/56)
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