Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1740. 1740 (MDCCXL) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday...

The Irish Famine of 1740–1741 (Irish: Bliain an Áir, meaning the Year of Slaughter) in the Kingdom of Ireland, is estimated to have killed between 13%...

The 1740s BC was a decade lasting from January 1, 1749 BC to December 31, 1740 BC. 1749 BC–Samsu-iluna succeeds Hammurabi as king of Babylon. However, his...

of 1735–1740 refers to a rebellion by the Bashkirs against the Russian Empire. It started in 1735, but was put down by Russian troops in 1740 after a...

1740 Broadway (formerly the MONY Building or Mutual of New York Building) is a 26-story building on the east side of Broadway, between 55th and 56th Streets...

Schlesischer Krieg) was a war between Prussia and Austria that lasted from 1740 to 1742 and resulted in Prussia's seizing most of the region of Silesia (now...

Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (5 February 1737 – 7 June 1740) was the eldest child and daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Francis I, Holy Roman...

1740 Paavo Nurmi, provisional designation 1939 UA, is rare-type asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 13 kilometers in diameter...

The year 1740 in science and technology involved some significant events. Jean Paul de Gua de Malves publishes his work of analytic geometry, Usages de...

until the military reforms of the 1840s. Four models were produced—in 1723, 1740, 1809 and 1831. Potzdam, just outside Berlin, had been Frederick the Great...