1739 Calendar
What Happened In Year 1739?
- January 1, 1739 – Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.
- February 13, 1739 – Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.
- February 23, 1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
- March 22, 1739 – Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
- September 9, 1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- September 18, 1739 – The Treaty of Belgrade is signed, ceding Belgrade to the Ottoman Empire.
- October 3, 1739 – The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736–1739.
- October 23, 1739 – War of Jenkins’ Ear starts: British Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, reluctantly declares war on Spain.
- November 20, 1739 – Start of the Battle of Porto Bello between British and Spanish forces during the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
Who Were Born In The Year 1739?
- January 19, 1739 – Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (d. 1808)
- January 25, 1739 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general (d. 1823)
- February 15, 1739 – Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, French architect (d. 1813)
- March 5, 1739 – Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physican and statesman (d. 1819)
- March 19, 1739 – Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)
- July 26, 1739 – George Clinton, American politician, 1st Governor of New York, and 4th Vice President of the United States (d. 1812)
- September 17, 1739 – John Rutledge, 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800)
- September 24, 1739 – Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
- November 2, 1739 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (d. 1799)
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