About the day » Sunday August 14, 1740Calender converter

• Aaltje Cornelisd Bakker, Alblasserdam, zh.nld († 1741)
• Angela Cornelia Orisande, Klundert, No.Brab., Neth († 1806)
• Anna Maria Conrad, Canajoharie, Montgomery, New York, United States († 1820)
• Abraham van Wieringen, Aarlanderveen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• "Jacob" Arijensz Kornaat, Vlaardingen
• Andries Roeloff, Made en Drimmelen, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Albertus Parthuijs, Bentheim
• Cornelis Aerts, Riel († 1794)
• Adriana van Soomeren, Rotterdam
• Aartje Flooren, Driebergen, Utrecht, NL

• Cornelia Albertusdr Pesant (2), Mijnsheerenland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Janna Rijstenbil (37), Poortvliet, Zeeland, Netherlands
• Cornelia Dircxdr de Lange
• Karel August Frederik Petit des Landes Vrijheer van Maubuisson (36), Monzel, Rheinland-Palts
• Aaltjen Bilderbeek, Ruurlo, Gelderland, Nederland
• Hendrikje Luggers (1)
• Ann Johnson (50), North Meols, Lancashire, England
• nicolas GERIN (62), Cuesmes (Belgium) Hainaut
• Oronzio van Monteforte (78)
• Leuntje van Dobbe (50), brielle

• 1645 » Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora, Mexican secular priest, scientist, and savant († 1700)
• 1653 » Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English colonel and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica († 1688)
• 1688 » Frederick William I of Prussia († 1740)
• 1714 » Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter († 1789)
• 1738 » Leopold Hofmann, Austrian composer and conductor († 1793)
• 1740 » Pope Pius VII († 1823)
• 1758 » Carle Vernet, French painter and lithographer († 1835)
• 1777 » Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist († 1851)
• 1814 » Charlotte Fowler Wells, American phrenologist and publisher († 1901)
• 1817 » Alexander H. Bailey, American lawyer, judge, and politician († 1874)

• 1657 » Giovanni Paolo Lascaris, 57th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller (b. 1560)
• 1691 » Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, Irish soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (b. 1630)
• 1727 » William Croft, English organist and composer (b. 1678)
• 1774 » Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (b. 1716)
• 1784 » Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-born English painter and academic (b. 1718)
• 1854 » Carl Carl, Polish-born actor and theatre director (b. 1787)
• 1856 » Constant Prévost, French geologist and academic (b. 1787)
• 1860 » André Marie Constant Duméril, French zoologist and entomologist (b. 1774)
• 1870 » David Farragut, American admiral (b. 1801)
• 1874 » Jonathan Clarkson Gibbs, American minister and politician (b. 1821)

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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 14, 1740 was about 13.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: geheel betrokken.