About the day » Tuesday December 20, 1740Calender converter

• Elisabeth Otto, Feudingen, Kreis Wittgenstein († 1815)
• DIRK POOT, KETHEL
• Albert Jans Piekeboer, Ureterp, Friesland, Nederland († 1818)
• Ida Moonen, Jabeek,, Limburg, Nederland
• béatrice jh. SAUSSEZ, Elouges (Belgium) Hainaut
• François LE RILLE, Castilly, 14142, Calvados, Normandie, France
• Albert Jans, Opsterland, Friesland, Netherlands († 1818)
• Gerrit Jacobsz Koorn, Den Burg, Texel, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Catherine HELL, Willer (68960, Haut-Rhin, France)
• Egidius Joannes Saman, Stekene († 1741)

• Charles Cathcart (54)
• Jan Meijer (58)
• Franz Marquard Anton von Hornstein (57), Zurssmarshausen, Allemagne
• Jan(II) Willemz van Linschoten, Delfshaven
• Jan Hendricks Meijer (67), Heerde
• Petrus Adrianus Laurijsen (45), Dongen
• Jeanne LEJEUNE (29), Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray,71440,Saône-et-Loire,Bourgogne-Franche-Comté,FRANCE
• Jan Hendriks Meijer (58)
• Charles, 8th Baron Cathcart (54)
• Cornelia Jansdr Geus (49), 's Gravenmoer

• 1626 » Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German scholar and politician († 1692)
• 1629 » Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter († 1684)
• 1641 » Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician († 1724)
• 1740 » Arthur Lee, American physician and diplomat († 1792)
• 1786 » Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer († 1853)
• 1792 » Nicolas Toussaint Charlet, French painter and educator († 1845)
• 1806 » Martín Carrera, Mexican general and president (1855) († 1871)
• 1812 » Laura M. Hawley Thurston, American poet and educator († 1842)
• 1838 » Edwin Abbott Abbott, English theologian, author, and educator († 1926)
• 1841 » Ferdinand Buisson, French academic and politician, Nobel Prize laureate († 1932)

• 1658 » Jean Jannon, French designer and typefounder (b. 1580)
• 1722 » Kangxi, emperor of the Qing Dynasty (b. 1654)
• 1723 » Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (b. 1652)
• 1740 » Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English field marshal and politician, Governor of Portsmouth (b. 1675)
• 1765 » Louis, dauphin of France (b. 1729)
• 1768 » Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, Italian poet and academic (b. 1692)
• 1783 » Antonio Soler, Spanish priest and composer (b. 1729)
• 1812 » Sacagawea, American explorer (b. 1788)
• 1820 » John Bell, American farmer (b. 1750)
• 1856 » Francesco Bentivegna, Italian activist (b. 1820)

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  Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
• April 8 » War of Jenkins' Ear: Three British ships capture the Spanish third-rate Princesa, taken into service as HMSPrincess.
• June 13 » Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
• June 26 » A combined force of Spanish, free blacks and allied Indians defeat a British garrison at the Siege of Fort Mose near St. Augustine during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
• August 17 » Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope.
• October 9 » Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin massacring the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing 10,000.
• October 20 » France, Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony refuse to honour the Pragmatic Sanction, and the War of the Austrian Succession begins.

The temperature on December 20, 1740 was about 3.0 °C. There was 112 mm of rainWind direction mainly north. Weather type: betrokken regen.