• The year 1740 in architecture involved some significant events. In Ballymena (Ireland), the original Ballymena Castle burns down. Teatro Regio (Turin)...
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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1740. 1740 (MDCCXL) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Tuesday...
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  • about the literary events and publications of 1740. Autumn – John Cleland leaves government service in Bombay to return to Britain. November 6 – Samuel...
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  • The year 1740 in science and technology involved some significant events. Jean Paul de Gua de Malves publishes his work of analytic geometry, Usages de...
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  • This is a timeline of architecture, indexing the individual year in architecture pages. Notable events in architecture and related disciplines including...
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    Barrière – 6 Cello Sonatas, Livre 4 (Paris: Composer) (Likely composed 1737–1740) Michel Blavet – 6 Flute Sonatas, Op. 3 Louis de Caix d'Hervelois – Pièces...
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    Robinson House (Severna Park, Maryland) (category Houses completed in 1740)
    historic home located at Severna Park in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It was built about 1740 and is a 1+1⁄2-story stone dwelling with...
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    Clear Springs Plantation (category Houses completed in 1740)
    was built about 1740, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, five bay by two bay, Georgian style frame dwelling. It may be the oldest standing structure in Craven County...
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    The history of architecture traces the changes in architecture through various traditions, regions, overarching stylistic trends, and dates. The beginnings...
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    Augustusburg and Falkenlust Palaces, Brühl (category Houses completed in 1740)
    Clemens August to practice falconry, and the lodge was built from 1729 to 1740. The elaborate gardens surrounding the Augustusburg palace were designed...
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    Church of Santa María de Loreto, Achao (category Roman Catholic churches completed in 1740)
    Iglesia de Achao), is within the Diocese of Ancud, and was built around 1740 when Chiloé Archipelago was still a part of the Spanish Crown possessions...
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    Soubise in Paris (1735–1740) by Germain Boffrand Table design by Juste-Aurele Meissonier (1730) Grand Chamber of the Prince, Hôtel de Soubise (1735–1740) Woodwork...
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    Pope Clement XII (category 1740 deaths)
    February 1740), born Lorenzo Corsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 July 1730 to his death in February 1740. Clement...
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  • This is a description of fifty-nine churches in Paris classified by the French Ministry of Culture as national historic monuments. They are listed by Arrondissement...
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    Oare House (category 1740 establishments in England)
    country house in Oare, Wiltshire, England. The house was built in 1740 for a London wine merchant, Henry Deacon. It was largely remodelled in the early 1920s...
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  • Wunderbaren in der Poesie a German-language critical treatise published in Switzerland Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:...
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    Seraya (category Houses completed in 1740)
    building in Nazareth, Israel. It was built around 1740 (or 1730 by the autonomous Arab ruler of the Galilee, Zahir al-Umar, during the Ottoman era in Palestine...
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    Rheinsberg Palace (category 1740 establishments in the Holy Roman Empire)
    example of the so-called Frederician Rococo architecture style and served as a basis for Sanssouci Palace. In the Middle Ages a moated castle stood on the...
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  • The year 1730 in architecture involved some significant events. Annenhof Palace in the Lefortovo District of Moscow, designed by Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli...
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    Hîrjauca monastery (category Christian monasteries established in the 18th century)
    According to this version, the year of establishment of the hermitage is 1740. There are also two other versions regarding the foundation of the hermitage...
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    1740 – October 31, 1820) was an American merchant and abolitionist who founded the city of Lynchburg, Virginia. Lynch was born on August 28, 1740, in...
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    Lansdowne (Urbanna, Virginia) (category Houses completed in 1740)
    County, Virginia. It was constructed about 1740, and is a two-story, five-bay, T-shaped, brick dwelling in the Early Georgian style. It consists of a...
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    Summerson, John (1945). Georgian London. p. 135. "Architectural Style: Georgian Architecture (1740–1830)". buildinghistory.org. Retrieved 12 July 2018...
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    Warner Hall (category Houses completed in 1740)
    Warner Hall is a historic plantation in Gloucester County, Virginia, United States. Augustine Warner, progenitor of many prominent First Families of Virginia...
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    The architecture of Russia refers to the architecture of modern Russia as well as the architecture of both the original Kievan Rus', the Russian principalities...
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  • Mosby Tavern (category Government buildings completed in 1740)
    one-room house built by Benjamin Mosby in 1740, and remains a private residence today. Mosby Tavern was listed in the National Register of Historic Places...
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    Kinderdijk windmills (category Tourist attractions in South Holland)
    of Alblasserdam. Built in 1738 and 1740, to keep water out of the polder, it is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands and one...
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    1740 to 1742 and resulted in Prussia's seizing most of the region of Silesia (now in south-western Poland) from Austria. The war was fought mainly in...
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    William Peabody House (category Houses completed in 1740)
    historic house on North River Road in Milford, New Hampshire. This 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1740 by William Peabody, the first English...
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    Bend of the Lane (category Houses completed in 1740)
    House, is a historic house in Swansea, Massachusetts. The main block of this 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame house was built c. 1740, and is a well-preserved local...
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