About the day » Saturday August 13, 1740Calender converter

• Catharina Peere, Brugge, West-Vlaanderen, België
• Jean Baptiste Mallet, Montréal, Île-De-Montréal, Québec, Canada († 1812)
• Anna Margaretha Stohr, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States († 1821)
• Hendrik van Doesburg, Rumpt
• Claus RAHLF, Todendorf/Fehmarn (DE) († 1806)
• Geesjen De Carpentier Wildervanck, Zuidbroek
• Anna Catharina KEUNEN, Paal, 3583, Beringen, Limburg, België
• Catharina Christina Blumenkamp
• Catharina COERTIENS, Meer, Hoogstraten, Province of Antwerp (Middle Brabant), Belgium
• Carolus Joannes Saelens, Sint-Andries (Belgique)

• Janna Veldkamp, Winterswijk, Gelderland, Nederland
• Jost Stenger (61), Feudingen, Kreis Wittgenstein
• Richardus Schurrings, Kranenburg (Dld), Nordrhein-Westfalen, Duitsland
• N. van Aken, Liezele
• Petrus Pitteville (Pittumvil) (51), Bunsbeek-Glabbeek (St Quirinus)
• Joannes (Jan) Hendriksz Welleman (Welman) (45), Brielle
• Joannes Hendriksz Welman (45), Brielle
• Joannes Hendriksz. Welman (45), Brielle
• Petrus Junior Pittevil Pittumvil (51), Bunsbeek, Glabbeek, Belgie
• Joannes Hartman (0)

• 1662 » Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician, Lord President of the Council († 1748)
• 1666 » William Wotton, English linguist and scholar († 1727)
• 1700 » Heinrich von Brühl, Polish-German politician († 1763)
• 1717 » Louis François, Prince of Conti († 1776)
• 1756 » James Gillray, English caricaturist and printmaker (d.1815)
• 1764 » Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers, French general († 1813)
• 1790 » William Wentworth, Australian journalist, explorer, and politician († 1872)
• 1803 » Vladimir Odoyevsky, Russian philosopher and critic († 1869)
• 1814 » Anders Jonas Ångström, Swedish physicist and astronomer († 1874)
• 1818 » Lucy Stone, American abolitionist and suffragist († 1893)

• 1617 » Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss clergyman and theologian (b. 1540)
• 1667 » Jeremy Taylor, Irish bishop and saint (b. 1613)
• 1686 » Louis Maimbourg, French priest and historian (b. 1610)
• 1721 » Jacques Lelong, French priest and author (b. 1665)
• 1744 » John Cruger, Danish-American businessman and politician, 39th Mayor of New York City (b. 1678)
• 1749 » Johann Elias Schlegel, German poet and critic (b. 1719)
• 1766 » Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (b. 1726)
• 1795 » Ahilyabai Holkar, Queen of Indore (b. 1725)
• 1826 » René Laennec, French physician, invented the stethoscope (b. 1781)
• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)

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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 August 13, 1740 was about 15.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rainWind direction mainly northwest. Weather type: zeer betrokken regen.