About the day » Saturday May 7, 1740Calender converter

• Elsje Honig, Zaandijk, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1800)
• Guillaume Joseph Huchon, Bouffioulx,6200,Hainaut,BE († 1810)
• Anna Schäfer, Volkesfeld, Mayen-Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
• Jan Alberts Haarsma, Franeker († 1819)
• Gerardus ELIENS, Oerle, Veldhoven,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1801)
• Jan Alberts (Joannes) Haersma, op het Vliet, Franeker, Franekeradeel, Fiesland († 1819)
• Jan Willems Steenbergen, Koekange († 1816)
• Bernhard Kroh, Berleburg, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Jan Japikse Spek († 1808)
• Gertrudis Gerards WILLEMS, Sambeek, 4164, Noord-Brabant, Nederland

• Jacques Francois Beghin (62), Herlies, 59134, Nord, FRANCE
• Henri KITTLER (19), Zimmersheim, 68, Haut Rhin, Alsace, FRANCE
• Catharina Bolsens (81), Haasdonk, Beveren, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
• Catharina Bolsens (81), Haasdonk
• Adriaen ROOSMALE (78), Rotterdam
• Jan Both (42), Ameide, Vijfheerenlanden, Utrecht, Netherlands
• Ann Popleton (101), England
• Carl Henrik Von Hylteen (32), Stockholm, Stockholm, Sverige
• Cord Stöver (18)
• Jannetje de Vries (45)

• 1700 » Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian physician († 1772)
• 1701 » Carl Heinrich Graun, German tenor and composer († 1759)
• 1711 » David Hume, Scottish economist, historian, and philosopher († 1776)
• 1724 » Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser, French-Austrian field marshal († 1797)
• 1740 » Nikolai Arkharov, Russian police officer and general († 1814)
• 1748 » Olympe de Gouges, French playwright and philosopher († 1793)
• 1763 » Józef Poniatowski, Polish general († 1813)
• 1767 » Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia († 1820)
• 1774 » William Bainbridge, American commodore († 1833)
• 1787 » Jacques Viger, Canadian archaeologist and politician, 1st mayor of Montreal († 1858)

• 1667 » Johann Jakob Froberger, German organist and composer (b. 1616)
• 1682 » Feodor III of Russia (b. 1661)
• 1685 » Bajo Pivljanin (b. 1630)
• 1718 » Mary of Modena (b. 1658)
• 1793 » Pietro Nardini, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1722)
• 1800 » Niccolò Piccinni, Italian composer (b. 1728)
• 1805 » William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, Irish-English general and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1737)
• 1815 » Jabez Bowen, American colonel and politician, 45th Deputy Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1739)
• 1825 » Antonio Salieri, Italian composer and conductor (b. 1750)
• 1840 » Caspar David Friedrich, German painter and educator (b. 1774)

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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 May 7, 1740 was about 3.0 °C. There was 114 mm of rainWind direction mainly north-northeast. Weather type: regen.