This article is about the year 1739.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
Decades: | 1700s 1710s 1720s – 1730s – 1740s 1750s 1760s |
Years: | 1736 1737 1738 – 1739 – 1740 1741 1742 |
1739 by topic: | |
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Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science | |
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Canada – Great Britain – | |
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Colonial governors – State leaders | |
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Gregorian calendar | 1739 MDCCXXXIX |
Ab urbe condita | 2492 |
Armenian calendar | 1188 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԸ |
Assyrian calendar | 6489 |
Bahá'í calendar | −105 – −104 |
Bengali calendar | 1146 |
Berber calendar | 2689 |
British Regnal year | 12 Geo. 2 – 13 Geo. 2 |
Buddhist calendar | 2283 |
Burmese calendar | 1101 |
Byzantine calendar | 7247–7248 |
Chinese calendar | 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4435 or 4375 — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4436 or 4376 |
Coptic calendar | 1455–1456 |
Discordian calendar | 2905 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1731–1732 |
Hebrew calendar | 5499–5500 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1795–1796 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1661–1662 |
- Kali Yuga | 4840–4841 |
Holocene calendar | 11739 |
Igbo calendar | 739–740 |
Iranian calendar | 1117–1118 |
Islamic calendar | 1151–1152 |
Japanese calendar | Genbun 4 (元文4年) |
Juche calendar | N/A |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
Korean calendar | 4072 |
Minguo calendar | 173 before ROC 民前173年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2282 |
Year 1739 (MDCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
- January 1 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- February 24 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nader Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
- March 20 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne, including the Koh-i-Noor.
- May 12 – John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol in England, the world's first Methodist meeting house.[1]
- June 2 – The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is founded in Stockholm.[2]
July–December
- September 9 – The Stono Rebellion, a slave rebellion, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- September 18 – The Treaty of Belgrade brings the Austro-Russian–Turkish War (1735–39) to an end.
- October 3 – The Treaty of Niš is signed.
- October 17 – The Foundling Hospital is created in London by royal charter.
- October 23 – War of Jenkins' Ear: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
- November 20–22 – War of Jenkins' Ear: Battle of Porto Bello: British marine forces capture the Panamanian silver exporting town of Portobelo from the Spanish.
Date unknown
- Ecuador becomes a part of New Granada.
- 84,000 farmers revolt in the province of Iwaki in Japan.
- Plinian eruption of Mount Tarumae volcano in Japan.
- The first Bible in Estonian is published.
Births
- January 25 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
- February 15 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813)
- March 16 – George Clymer, American politician and Founding Father (d. 1813)
- March 19 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)
- July 26 – George Clinton, American soldier and politician (d. 1812)
- August 31 – Johann Augustus Eberhard, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1809)
- November 2 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
- November 20 – Jean-François de La Harpe, French critic (d. 1803)
- December 14 – Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, French politician (d. 1817)
- date unknown
- Bénédict Chastanier, French surgeon (d. 1816)
- Samuel Mason, Revolutionary War soldier and early American outlaw (d. 1803)
Deaths
- January 20 – Francesco Galli Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (b. 1659)
- April 7 – Dick Turpin, English highwayman (hanged) (b. 1705)
- April 19 – Nicholas Saunderson, English scientist and mathematician (b. 1682)
- July 24 – Benedetto Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1686)
- September 8 – Yuri Troubetzkoy, Governor of Belgorod (b. 1668)
- September 12 – Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1667)
- October 18 – Antônio José da Silva, Brazilian-born dramatist (b. 1705)
References
- ^ "History of The New Room". Bristol: The New Room. Retrieved 2011-07-17.
- ^ "History". Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien. Retrieved 2011-09-27.