1740 Irish Famine (1740–1741) 1740 papal conclave John Finch (died 1740) 1740 Paavo Nurmi Bashkir rebellion of 1735–1740 Francis Child (died 1740) 1740 in Great Britain Toby Caulfeild (1694–1740) Archduchess Maria Carolina of Austria (born 1740) 1740 Batavia massacre Plantation Act 1740 Action of 8 April 1740 1740 in Canada Thomas Potter (1740–1801) Northampton (1740 EIC ship) John Lynch (1740–1820) Hans Seidelin (1665–1740) 1740 in Russia 1740 in Wales The Scottish Town in the Age of Enlightenment, 1740–1820 1740 in Sweden List of peers 1740–1749 1740 Broadway 1740 in France Leonard Smelt (politician) 1740 in Ireland 174…

40 in Denmark 1740 in Japan List of ship launches in 1740 1740 in Norway The Transformation of Virginia, 1740–1790 William Knollys (Banbury MP) 1740 in art 1740 in architecture 1740 in Scotland 1740 in science HMS Bridgewater (1740) Justynian Szczytt (1740–1824) HMS Success (1740) 1740 in literature Attacks on Fuerteventura in 1740 John Stanley (Hastings MP) Negro Act of 1740 Siege of St. Augustine (1740) John Lawton (died 1740) HMS Fox (1740) John Leveson-Gower (Royal Navy officer) 1736 to 1740 in sports John Alcock (organist, born 1740) Potzdam Musket John Norris (born 1740) 1740 in music List of acts of the Parliament of Great

Britain, 1740–1744 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1740 Papists Act 1740 Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (born 1737) HMS Winchelsea (1740) Robert Abercromby of Airthrey List of shipwrecks in the 1740s List of colonial governors in 1740 French ship Tonnant (1743) French ship Apollon (1740) 1740s BC HMS Princess (1740) First Silesian War Bridges Act French ship Mars (1740) Scarborough (1740 EIC ship) John Shoolbred (slave trader) HMS Guernsey (1696) John Schank Battle of Pitnak James Brenton (soldier) James Woodforde HMS Nassau (1706) HMS Expedition (1679) French ship Dauphin Royal (1735) John Cartwright (political reformer) Marquess Grey HMS Kingston (1697) Whitefield Hou