January 3 » By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
February 2 » New Amsterdam (later renamed The City of New York) is incorporated.
February 23 » The Ballet Royal de la Nuit is first performed at the Salle du Petit-Bourbon in Paris.
April 20 » Oliver Cromwell dissolves the Rump Parliament.
June 12 » First Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of the Gabbard begins, lasting until the following day.
December 16 » English Interregnum: The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
Day of death August 17, 1740
The temperature on August 17, 1740 was about 13.0 °C. There was 22 mm of rainWind direction mainly south. Weather type: geheel betrokken regen. Source: KNMI
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.
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