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Year '1739' ('MDCCXXXIX') was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents

Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of

January - June

★ January 1 - Bouvet Island is discovered by French explorer Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier.

★ February 24 - Battle of Karnal: The army of Iranian ruler Nadir Shah defeats the forces of the Mughal emperor of India, Muhammad Shah.

★ March 20 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne, including the Koh-i-Noor.

July - December

★ September 9 - Stono Rebellion erupts near Charleston.

★ September 18 - Treaty of Belgrade brings the Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739 to an end.

★ October 3 - Treaty of Nissa signed.

★ October 17 - The Foundling Hospital is created in London by royal charter.

★ October 23 - Great Britain declares war on Spain. This becomes known as the War of Jenkins' Ear.

★ November 21 - The British capture the South American silver exporting town of Porto Bello from the Spanish.

Undated

★ 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 19 - Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, Third Consul of France (d. 1824)

★ July 26 - George Clinton, American soldier and politician (d. 1812)

★ 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'' - Johann Augustus Eberhard, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1809)
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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)
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