About the day » Tuesday July 5, 1740Calender converter

• Cornelis Groeninx van Zoelen, Rotterdam,Gemeente Rotterdam,South Holland,Netherlands († 1791)
• Eva Holtkamp
• Cornelis Groeninx van Zoelen, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1791)
• Ambrosius van Boxtel, Son
• Cornelis Groeninx van Zoelen Heer van Ridderkerk, Rotterdam († 1791)
• Helena ERENS, Leende,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1781)
• Georgius Pullens, Nieuwkuijk, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Edward McFadden, Ballymena, Antrim, Ulster, Ireland († 1836)
• Jacob Schneider, Dutchess, New York, British America († 1823)
• Gregorius van der Paart, Utrecht,, Utrecht, Nederland († 1796)

• Tabitha Brigham (0)
• Anna Beata Magdalena Müller-Schatzer (48), Kleintettau, Tettau, Sonneberg
• Cornelia SMOUTER (62), Rijsoord
• Jean le MEVEL (75), Lopérec, 29139, Finistère, Bretagne, France
• Jean Dumas (3), Rotterdam
• Jean CAZALA (5), JUILLAN
• Dirck Maartens Kock, Voorburg
• Pierre Thomas DESPLANQUES (59), Wasquehal (59)
• Johanna Crommendissel (50), Utrecht
• Cornelia Smouter, Rijsoord

• 1709 » Étienne de Silhouette, French translator and politician, Controller-General of Finances († 1767)
• 1717 » Peter III, Portuguese king († 1786)
• 1718 » Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland († 1794)
• 1745 » Carl Arnold Kortum, German physician and poet († 1824)
• 1755 » Sarah Siddons, English actress († 1831)
• 1780 » François Carlo Antommarchi, French physician († 1838)
• 1793 » Pavel Pestel, Russian officer († 1826)
• 1794 » Sylvester Graham, American minister and activist († 1851)
• 1801 » David Farragut, American admiral († 1870)
• 1802 » Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral († 1855)

• 1661 » Sir Hugh Speke, 1st Baronet
• 1666 » Albert VI, German nobleman (b. 1584)
• 1676 » Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1613)
• 1715 » Charles Ancillon, French jurist and diplomat (b. 1659)
• 1719 » Meinhardt Schomberg, 3rd Duke of Schomberg, German-English general (b. 1641)
• 1773 » Francisco José Freire, Portuguese historian and philologist (b. 1719)
• 1819 » William Cornwallis, English admiral and politician (b.1744)
• 1826 » Stamford Raffles, English politician, founded Singapore (b. 1782)
• 1833 » Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, created the first known photograph (b. 1765)
• 1859 » Charles Cagniard de la Tour, French physicist and engineer (b. 1777)

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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 July 5, 1740 was about 16.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder.