Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Decades: 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s - 1740s - 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s Years: 1735 1736 1737 1738 1739 - 1740 - 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745 Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Monarchs/Presidents Events Adam Smith enters Balliol College, Oxford George Whitefield founds the Bethesda orphanage The song Rule Britannia is first performed at Cliveden May 31 - Friedrich II comes to power in Prussia upon the death of his father, Friedrich Wilhelm I. October 20 - Maria Theresia of Austria inherits the Habsburg hereditary dominions (Austria, Bohemia, Hungary and present-day Belgium). However, her succession to the Holy Roman Empire is contested widely because she is a woman. December 16 - Friedrich II of Prussia invades the Habsburg possession of Silesia, starting the War of the Austrian Succession. Births August 23 - Emperor Ivan VI of Russia Juan Andres, Spanish Jesuit Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan Deaths January 5, Antonio Lotti, composer May 31 - Friedrich Wilhelm I, King of Prussia October 20 - Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor October 28 - Anna Ivanova (Anna I of Russia) Monarchs/Presidents China - Qianlong Emperor of China, Qing Dynasty (reigned from October 18, 1735 to February 9, 1796) France - Louis XV King of France (reigned from 1715 to 1774) Great Britain - George II King of Great Britain (reigned from June 11, 1727 to October 25, 1760) Prussia - Frederick II King of Prussia (reigned from 1740 to 1786) Saxony - Frederick Augustus II Elector of Saxony (from 1733 to 1763) (also King of Poland) This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.