February 22 » St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people.
June 28 » The Battle of Berestechko between Poland and Ukraine starts.
June 30 » The Deluge: Khmelnytsky Uprising: The Battle of Berestechko ends with a Polish victory.
September 3 » Third English Civil War: Battle of Worcester: Charles II of England is defeated in the last main battle of the war.
December 15 » Castle Cornet in Guernsey, the last stronghold which had supported the King in the Third English Civil War, surrenders.
Day of death January 21, 1740
The temperature on January 21, 1740 was about 2.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: betrokken sneeuw. Special wheather fenomena: . 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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