1739

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Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
  • 1736
  • 1737
  • 1738
  • 1739
  • 1740
  • 1741
  • 1742
1739 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1739
MDCCXXXIX
Ab urbe condita2492
Armenian calendar1188
ԹՎ ՌՃՁԸ
Assyrian calendar6489
Balinese saka calendar1660–1661
Bengali calendar1146
Berber calendar2689
British Regnal year12 Geo. 2 – 13 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2283
Burmese calendar1101
Byzantine calendar7247–7248
Chinese calendar戊午年 (Earth Horse)
4435 or 4375
    — to —
己未年 (Earth Goat)
4436 or 4376
Coptic calendar1455–1456
Discordian calendar2905
Ethiopian calendar1731–1732
Hebrew calendar5499–5500
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1795–1796
 - Shaka Samvat1660–1661
 - Kali Yuga4839–4840
Holocene calendar11739
Igbo calendar739–740
Iranian calendar1117–1118
Islamic calendar1151–1152
Japanese calendarGenbun 4
(元文4年)
Javanese calendar1663–1664
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4072
Minguo calendar173 before ROC
民前173年
Nanakshahi calendar271
Thai solar calendar2281–2282
Tibetan calendar阳��马年
(male Earth-Horse)
1865 or 1484 or 712
    — to —
阴土羊年
(female Earth-Goat)
1866 or 1485 or 713

1739 (MDCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1739th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 739th year of the 2nd millennium, the 39th year of the 18th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1739, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–March[]

April–June[]

  • April 7 – English highwayman Dick Turpin is executed by hanging for horse theft.
  • May 12John Wesley lays the foundation stone of the New Room, Bristol in England, the world's first Methodist meeting house.[1]
  • June 13 – (June 2 Old Style); The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is founded in Stockholm, Sweden.[2]

July–September[]

October–December[]

  • October 3 – The Treaty of Niš is signed.
  • October 17 – The Foundling Hospital is created in London by royal charter.
  • October 23War of Jenkins' Ear: Great Britain declares war on Spain.
  • November 2022War of Jenkins' EarBattle of Porto Bello: British marine forces capture the Panamanian silver-exporting town of Portobelo from the Spanish.
  • December 30– Months of unseasonably cold weather begin in Ireland, precipitating the Irish Famine of 1740, known as Bliain an Áir ("The Year of Slaughter"). A January 5 dispatch from Dublin to the Stamford Mercury says "Since last Wednesday we have had the most violent cold Weather that was ever known in this Kingdom; hard Frost began that evening, which has continued ever since with a very stormy Wind at South-East."[7] At least 13% of Ireland's population dies of starvation in the year that follows.[8]

Date unknown[]


Births[]

Deaths[]

Dick Turpin

References[]

  1. ^ "History of The New Room". Bristol: The New Room. Archived from the original on August 17, 2013. Retrieved July 17, 2011.
  2. ^ "History". Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien. Retrieved September 27, 2011.
  3. ^ Waghorn, H. T. (1899). Cricket Scores, Notes, etc. (1730–1773). Blackwood. pp. 22–23.
  4. ^ Sailendra Nath Sen (1994). Anglo-Maratha Relations, 1785–96. Popular Prakashan. p. 1.
  5. ^ Lund, Eric A. (1999). War for the Every Day: Generals, Knowledge, and Warfare in Early Modern Europe, 1680-1740. Greenwood Press.
  6. ^ Santamaría de Paredes, Vicente; Van Dyke, Harry Weston (1910). A Study of the Question of Boundaries Between the Republics of Peru and Ecuador. B.S. Adams. p. 60.
  7. ^ Kinealy, Christine; Moran, Gerard (2019). The History of the Irish Famine. Routledge.
  8. ^ Póirtéir, Cathal, ed. (1955). The Great Irish Famine. Mercier Press. pp. 53–55.
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