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| 1739 |
| | The Persian ruler Nadir Shah enters Delhi and removes much of the accumulated treasure of the Mughal empire | |
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| 1739 |
| | David Hume publishes his Treatise of Human Nature, in which he applies to the human mind the principles of experimental science | |
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| 1739 |
| | English highwayman Dick Turpin is convicted of stealing two horses, in Yorkshire, and is hanged | |
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| 1740 |
| | Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador become the Spanish viceroyalty of New Granada, with Bogota as the capital | |
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| 1740 |
| | Frederick II, inheriting the throne in Prussia, establishes a cultured and musical court | |
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| c. 1740 |
| | A charismatic leader, Baal Shem Tov, develops Hasidism in Poland as an influential revivalist movement within Judaism | |
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| c. 1740 |
| | Italian dramatist Carlo Goldoni makes a success of plays in the ancient commedia dell'arte tradition | |
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| 1740 |
| | Jack Broughton, champion of England, opens an academy to teach 'the mystery of boxing, that wholly British art' | |
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| 1740 |
| | The Habsburg emperor Charles VI dies and is succeeded by his elder daughter, the 23-year-old Maria Theresa | |
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| 1740 |
| | Frederick II, the king of Prussia, invades the neighbouring Habsburg province of Silesia, launching the War of the Austrian Succession | |
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